Symposium Schedule
Wednesday, September 6, 2023
6:30 p.m. | Understanding Your Grief: Touchstones for Hope and Healing with Dr. Alan Wolfelt
Thursday, September 7, 2023
8:00 a.m. | Registration & Breakfast
8:30 a.m. | Mindfulness Opening with Sarah Hendrickson
9:00 a.m. | When Grief is Complicated: A Model to Understand, Identify and Companion Grievers with Dr. Alan Wolfelt
12:15 p.m. | Lunch
1:00 p.m. | Breakout Session #1
Loving Myself as I'm Loving My Neighbor (Part 1) with Linda Anderson Gaines
Prolonged Grief Disorder and the DSM with Neesha Roberts
Suicide, Supervision and Supervisees with Emily Ribnik
2:30 p.m. | Break
2:45 p.m. | Breakout Session #2
Grief in the Workplace with Benjamin Baran
Loving Myself as I'm Loving My Neighbor (Part 2) with Linda Anderson Gaines
A Tale of Two Clinicians: Mental Health Providers as Suicide Survivors with Emily Ribnik and Shannon Ortiz
4:15 p.m. | Networking Happy Hour
Friday, September 8
8:00 a.m. | Grounding & Light Yoga with Heather Nicol
9:15 a.m. | Breakout Session #3
Trauma and Loss in the Amish Community with Nancy Carst and Annamae Miller
Peer-Led Teen Trauma Support with Leila Salisbury and Katarina Salisbury
Trauma Mindfulness (Part 1) with Sarah Hendrickson
10:45 a.m. | Break
11:00 a.m. | Breakout Session #4
Dying, Death and Bereavement in a Digital World with Julie Olds
Trauma Mindfulness (Part 2) with Sarah Hendrickson
Best Practices for Providing Trauma Response Services to Homicide Co-Victims with Wendy Ricks Hoff
12:30 p.m. | Adjourn
Cornerstone of Hope is an approved provider for professional development and education. Cornerstone of Hope is approved by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker, and Marriage and Family Therapist Board as a provider of continuing education for counselors and social workers. Approved provider number #RCS070701 The Ohio Nursing Board accepts continuing education hours approved by any other credentialing agency. 9 CEU's are available to counselors, social workers and nurses. In addition, this program is also offering 9 Continuing Education credits to licensed funeral directors in the state of Ohio.

