June 2024 | Feeling and Healing: Using your emotions as powerful tools for growth | Threads of Life Atlantic Family Forum | Oak Island Resort, Nova Scotia
June 2024 | Grief & Growth: How loss opens hearts and heals lives | Threads of Life Atlantic Family Forum | Oaks Island Resort, Nova Scotia
May 2024 | Getting past the “What ifs” in Grief and Trauma | Families Connect - Threads of Life Canada | Online Webinar
March 2024 | Trauma-Sensitive Training Program for Frontline Workers | Shelter Nova Scotia | Halifax, Nova Scotia |
March 2024 | Trauma-Sensitive Training Program for Frontline Workers | Out of the Cold | Halifax, Nova Scotia
March 2024 | Trauma-Sensitive Training Program for Frontline Workers | North End Community Health Association | Halifax, Nova Scotia
November 2023 | Tuning the Heart in the face of pain, chaos, grief and trauma | Atlantic Mentorship Network - Pain & Addiction | Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
November 2023 | Reflections on the Frontline Caregiver’s Heart | Phoenix Youth Program | Halifax, Nova Scotia
October 2023 | Numb & Number: grief, trauma and addictions | Thread of Life Canada Central Family Forum | Alliston, Ontario
October 2023 | The Many Faces of Grief | Threads of Life Canada Central Family Forum | Alliston, Ontario
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April 2021 | Radio Interview - Anniversary of Nova Scotia Massacre | CBC Halifax Maritime Connection | Halifax NS
March 2021 | Webinar - The Hero Always Dies: How to be courageous in a plague of loss and fear | The Rotary Club of Ottawa-Stittsville - Ottawa ON
March 2021 | Webinar - Stop Being Invincible: Sensible self-care during crisis | Geriatric Academic Rounds NSH - Halifax NS
March 2020 | Interview with Dr. Carolyn Thomson - Compassion Fatigue and Medical Residents | Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine — Halifax NS
Febuary 2021 | Interview with Canadian Virtual Hospice - Traumatic Loss | Halifax NS
January 2021 | Webinar - Stop Being Invincible: Sensible Self-care during Crisis | Canadian Union Public Employees CUPE | Ottawa ON
December 2020 | Radio Interview - Grief During the Holidays | CBC Halifax Maritime Noon | Halifax NS
December 2020 | Webinar - Grief and Loss as Guides to Growth | The Uncommon Woman Live | Thunder Bay ON
November 2020 | Moral Distress Workshop | Intensive Care NSH | Halifax NS
October 2020 | Webinar - Stop Being Invincible: Sensible self-care during Crisis | Alzheimer Association Nova Scotia | Halifax NS
May 2020 | Radio Interview - Grief during COVID | CBC Halifax Maritime Connection | Halifax NS
April 2020 | Radio Interview - Traumatic Grief | CBC Halifax Atlantic Airwaves | Halifax NS\
February 2020 | Interview with Dr. Caroline Thompson - Compassion Fatiigue | Dalhousie Medical Faculty Resident Affairs | Halifax NS
January 2020 | Nursing our Hearts at Work: Compassion Fatigue | Intermediate Care Unit (IMCU), NSH — Halifax, NS
December 2019 | Dark December Days: Grief and the Holidays | St. Andrew’s United Church — Halifax, NS
November 2019 | Dark December Days: Grief and the Holidays | Alderney Gate Public Library — Dartmouth, NS
October 2019 | Talking to Families in Grief | Twin Oaks Memorial Hospital — Musquodoboit Harbour, NS
October 2019 | Psychosocial Team Grief Training | Hants Community Hospital — Windsor, NS
June 2019 | Director/Dramaturge: God and Cancer | Hayes Lectures, Atlantic School of Theology — Halifax, NS
May 2019 | Community Grief Consultant | Pause Mental Health Program, NECHC — Halifax, NS
April 2019 | Responding to Teens in Crisis | Millwood Highschool PD Day — Middle Sackville, NS
April 2019 | Teachers in Crisis - Compassion Fatigue | Millwood Highschool PD Day — Middle Sackville, NS
January 2019 | Complicated Grief Workshop | CPE Student Training (Spiritual Care) — Halifax, NS
October 2018 | The Crisis of Self-Care | NSHA — Halifax, NS
September 2018 | Palliative Care Volunteer Training | Sacred Heart Community Health Centre — Cheticamp, NS
January 2018 | Self-Care for Therapists - Panel | Nourish Arts Therapy Conference — Phnom Penh, Cambodia
January 2018 | Peer Led Grief Group Facilitator Training | Nourish Arts Therapy Conference — Phnom Penh, Cambodia
July 2017 | Grief Interventions for Children and Teens | Twin Oaks Memorial Hospital — Musquodoboit, NS
June 2017 | Talking ‘til it Hurts: How to Attend People in Pain | Alzheimer Society of Nova Scotia — Halifax, NS
May 2017 | Online and Virtual Grieving Panel | Nova Scotia Hospice Palliative Care Association — Halifax, NS
May 2017 | Cruel Masters: Shame and Guilt after Grief | Threads of Life Association for Workplace Tragedy — Canada
May 2017 | Whole Person Healthy – Mind, Body, and Spirit! | Threads of Life Association for Workplace Tragedy — Canada
May 2017 | Compassion Fatigue: When Trauma Comes Home | Rehabilitation Service - Physiotherapy — Halifax, NS
April 2017 | Compassion Fatigue: When Trauma Comes Home | 8.4 Medical Teaching Unit, NSHA — Halifax, NS
March 2017 | Compassion Fatigue: When Trauma Comes Home | Hospitalist Medicine Unit NSHA — Halifax, NS
January — May 2017 | Grief Group Facilitator Training - Homicide Group | Black Educators Association NS/Veith House — Halifax, NS
January 2017 | Where is Everyone?: Grief After 70 | Parkland at the Gardens, Retirement Home — Halifax, NS
October 2016 | Death Sentences: The Art of Difficult Conversation | Cancer Care Nova Scotia — Halifax, NS
September 2016 | Frontline Resiliency Sharing Group | MOSH Housing First NECHC — Halifax, NS
August 2016 | Grief Group Facilitator Training | Halifax Hospice — Halifax, NS
June 2016 | Mixology: Addiction, Grief, and Trauma | Threads of Life Association for Workplace Tragedy — Canada
May 2016 | Compassion Fatigue: When Trauma Comes Home | Canadian Gerontological Nursing Association Conf. — Halifax, NS
2015 — 2016 | Victim Services Volunteer Resiliency Group | Halifax Regional Police — Halifax NS
2009 — 2016 | Volunteer Family GuideTraining | Threads of Life Association for Workplace Tragedy — Canada
November 2015 | Abandoned Sorrow: Sadness Sedating Society | Halifax Central Library — Halifax, NS
2013 — 2014 | Helping Military Families with Traumatic Grief | DOD Military Family Resource Centre — Halifax, NS
March 2014 | Maimed: The Family Impact of Workplace Death | NFLD/Labrador Construction Safety Association — St.John’s, NL
January 2014 | Breathing in Self-Compassion | Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program, NSHA — Halifax, NS
November 2013 | Q & A about Grief, Dying, and Death | Craig’s Cause Pancreatic Cancer Society — Halifax, NS
October 2013 | Grief: Is it All in our Heads? | Brain Tumour Support Group — Halifax, NS
September 2013 | Chemo Nurse Resilience Training | NSHA Department of Oncology — Halifax, NS
June 2013 | Grief in People with Intellectual Disabilities | Regional Residential Services Society — Halifax, NS
May 2012 | Good Grief Groups: Facilitator Training | Nova Scotia Hospice Palliative Care Association — Halifax NS
January 2019 | Grief 101 Medical Resident Workshop | NSHA Palliative Care Program — Halifax, NS
March 2012 | Grief Sharing Circle for Housemates | Masonview Residential Home — Dartmouth, NS
2012 — 2013 | Resiliency Training Workshop Victim Services | Nova Scotia Department of Justice — Halifax, NS
2011 — 2012 | Women’s Grief Group Facilitator Training | Coverdale Courtwork Society — Halifax, NS
June 2012 | Growing Through Anxiety and Depression | Threads of Life Association for Workplace Tragedy — Canada
October 2011 | Living in Loss: When Death is Daily | Ocean View Continuing Care Facility — Halifax, NS
May 2011 | Deepening Bedside Conversation: 5 Practical Tips | NSHA Palliative Care Educational Retreat — Halifax, NS
April 2011 | Grief Factors in Acute Mental Illness | Schizophrenia Society of Nova Scotia — Halifax, NS
February 2011 | Stricken: Sudden Loss, Grief, and Trauma | Acute Stroke Care Unit, NSHA — Halifax, NS
2010 — 2015 | Grief Training for Helpline Volunteers | Help Line — Halifax NS
2009 — 2015 | Grief and Loss: VON Volunteer Training | Victoria Order of Nurses (VON) — Halifax, NS
2009 — 2016 | Training, Teaching | Threads of Life Canada — Nova Scotia/Ontario
2015 — 2016 | Resiliency Training | Halifax Regional Police Victim Services — Halifax, NS