Dealing with Grief, Loss, and Change as an Employee

Introduction

• Welcome to Dealing with Grief, Loss, and Change as an Employee

1. Understanding Your Difficult Feelings

• Joan's story
• The eight unpleasant feelings
• The Rosenberg Reset

2. What Is Grief?

• Is this grief?
• Grief's nonlinear progression
• Anticipatory grief and lost potentials
• The role of vulnerability

3. Dealing with Personal Loss or Change

• Common physical reactions
• Common emotional reactions
• Moving through grief

4. Supporting Colleagues Who Have Experienced Loss or Change

• How to provide meaningful support
• What not to say

5. Returning to Work After Loss or Change

• Make a plan for returning to work
• Empathy and the universality of grief, loss, and change