Working with Grief, Shame and Regret: Uncovering Career Transition Potential

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PAST PAID WEBINAR SERIES

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• Dr. Catherine Hajnal, Grief and Trauma Educator

Original dates and times

• Tuesdays, April 29, May 6 & May 13, 2025 – 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm ET (Check your time zone)

Price

• PAID webinar series

Language

• This webinar series was presented in English

Accessibility

• This webinar series offered AI-generated live captions available in multiple languages

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This webinar series is recognized by CCPA for 4.5 continuing education credits. To have the credits applied to your education profile, please submit the form to CCPA at cec@ccpa-accp.ca.[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][headings alignment=”” heading_color=”#568caf” heading=”Overview of the webinar series”][vc_column_text css=””]Whether the reasons for seeking career services are tied to voluntary or involuntary job or life changes, chances are your service participants are dealing with loss. Consider for example being laid off, death of a significant other, being a newcomer to Canada, divorce, the dream career that hasn’t panned out, an injury or illness — underlying all of these are losses that need to be grieved. Yet the language of loss and grieving is not common practice in career conversations.   

However, when these losses go unacknowledged, they can create barriers to moving forward. Our service participants may find themselves feeling stuck. There can be tension between looking back and looking forward. With living losses (also referred to as non-death losses), our service participants may themselves not understand they are grieving. 

While the emotions and experiences of grief and loss may feel uncomfortable to explore, they hold transformative potential. What if grief, anger, shame, guilt or regret — rather than being obstacles — could serve as windows into new career possibilities?   [/vc_column_text][headings alignment=”” heading_color=”#568caf” heading=”Why career professionals should attend”][vc_column_text css=””]Denying the impact of losses in the context of work, family, health and community can affect people’s sense of well-being and their ability to move forward.  When career development practitioners are skilled at acknowledging the “tough stuff” they can unleash an incredible human capacity to reimagine and reframe difficult experiences as a catalyst for growth and career possibilities.  

This new webinar series will support career development practitioners in this important approach. Through interactive sessions, we’ll identify different types of loss — with a focus on common losses shared in a career context, explore grief theory basics, and address several myths about grief.

By the end of the series, participants will have gained practical tools to recognize and address their service participants’ losses and accompanying emotions, helping to translate them into valuable insights, skills, abilities and career possibilities.  
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• Define and explore examples of different types of loss that a service participant might be grieving including: 
  • Living loss (non-death losses) 
  • Disenfranchised loss (hidden sorrow) 
  • Ambiguous loss 
• Identify possible client responses to loss (physical, mental, social, emotional) and how these might influence career conversations 
• Explore how our words and actions around loss and grieving may inadvertently contribute to disenfranchising our service participants 

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• Identify the process of grieving, its many facets, twists and turns including comparing and contrasting some grief models  
• Explore the interplay of grief and time 
• Examine the meaning and sense-making aspects of the grief process and link these with career conversations   

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• Explain the Good Fit Model, how it can be used to foster an environment of safety and belonging and to harvest knowledge, skills and abilities found in a service participant’s loss experiences  
• Illustrate the use of metaphor to support the meaning and sense making aspects of loss processing 
• Identify prompts to translate the knowledge, skills and abilities of loss experiences into pain/passion points, and connect those with career possibilities 

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• Define and explore examples of different types of loss that a service participant might be grieving including: 
  • Living loss (non-death losses) 
  • Disenfranchised loss (hidden sorrow) 
  • Ambiguous loss 
• Identify possible client responses to loss (physical, mental, social, emotional) and how these might influence career conversations 
• Explore how our words and actions around loss and grieving may inadvertently contribute to disenfranchising our service participants 

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• Revisit the history of storytelling and what determines how we communicate 
• Learn why our cultural identity is a powerful analytical tool 
• Travel through life transitions, hear about “cultural aliens” and understand the social process of “othering” 
• Locate situations, revisit the self, available supports, and learn to build new strategies 
• Review implications of intercultural miscommunication 

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• Support clients to communicate their sense of self and apply their awareness 
• Clarify with your client how to integrate their story with their culture and their listener’s culture 
• Use the transaction model of communication in various ways 
• Inspire the storyteller to align their story to their industry standards 
• Motivate storytellers to address cultural assumptions 
• Evaluate tools for analysis and self-reflection: revisit experiences, cultural assumptions, self-perceptions and fixed mindsets 

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes”][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][spacing desktop_height=”20″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes”][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”chino” icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-user-graduate”]Overview of the research project

Prior to COVID-19, a broad host of social, technological, economic, environmental, political and values-based changes were disrupting Canada’s labour market, changing the nature of work. COVID-19 accelerated many of these changes, while introducing new disruptions, further complicating the landscape for career development. With this in mind, CERIC has engaged Creative Futures to explore the following questions through future-focused research.

Learn more about the project and any related resources, including the report.[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_message message_box_color=”success” icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-stamp”]Individual certificates of attendance will be provided for each webinar of the series. Please note that individual certificates of attendance will ONLY be provided to registered participants who attend the webinar LIVE.[/vc_message][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]

	COST for the full series
Individual Rate	$159
Group Rate*	$127 per person

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CCPA Members	COST for the full series
Individual Rate	$127
Group Rate*	$102 per person

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=””]* If you register 5 or more participants from the same organization at the same time, you qualify for the group rate of 20% off registration fees. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_message]CERIC webinars are hosted on Zoom. Learn about it in our FAQ.[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”67935″ img_size=”240×240″ alignment=”center” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=””]Dr. Catherine Hajnal’s pathway to loss and grief is rooted in many years of chronic pain and a career that wasn’t working out as expected. Finding meaning, purpose and a new career in her own losses, she recognized that her research in Human Factors Engineering, socio-technical systems, job design, and organizational health and safety provided a solid foundation for companioning people through the pains and possibilities of their own life transitions. Dr. Hajnal now delivers workshops, papers and conferences on grief, loss and trauma in the context of career services.  [/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_icon icon_fontawesome=”fab fa-linkedin” color=”black” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Flinkedin.com%2Fin%2Fcatherinehajnal|target:_blank”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_icon icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-globe” color=”black” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.catherinehajnal.com|target:_blank”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”63334″ img_size=”240×240″ alignment=”center”][spacing desktop_height=”30″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Dr. Catherine Hajnal facilitates an understanding of trauma, loss and grief including their transformative potential. For over 25 years she has been committed to creating learning environments that foster a deeper understanding of the human condition.    [/vc_column_text][spacing desktop_height=”20″][vc_row_inner rtl_reverse=”yes”][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_icon icon_fontawesome=”fab fa-linkedin” color=”black” size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fcatherinehajnal%2F|target:_blank”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes”][vc_column][spacing desktop_height=”35″ mobile_height=”25″ smobile_height=”10″][headings alignment=”” heading_color=”#568caf” tag=”h3″ heading=”Que nous disent les participants du webinaire de Frédéric?”][spacing desktop_height=”35″ mobile_height=”25″ smobile_height=”10″][accordions]

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