Grief is the Bedrock.
Trauma is the Shockwave.
Most Training Doesn't Teach the Difference.
Whether you’re a therapist, coach, healthcare professional, educator, hospice professional—or simply someone trying to understand grief more deeply—this keynote offers a new framework for understanding grief on its own terms, while clarifying where grief and trauma overlap—and where they do not.
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Grief & Trauma Untangled
A New Model for Understanding the Body, the Mind, and the Field of Grief
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In this keynote, you’ll explore:
Why grief and trauma are not the same thing
How distinguishing them can help us recognize grief without automatically treating it as pathology, dysregulation, or something that needs to be fixed.
The Five Currents of grief
A way of understanding grief across five interconnected dimensions: presence, body, inner experience, meaning, and relationship.
What the body can tell us about loss
An introduction to Felt Sense Dynamics and how emotion moves through sensation, attention, and embodied experience.
How to meet grief without becoming a grief professional
These frameworks are not reserved for therapists or practitioners. They offer accessible ways to understand our own grief, accompany someone we love, and become more capable of staying present with loss.
Meet Your Instructor · Dr. Naomi Sanderovsky, Ph.D.
Naomi Sanderovsky, Ph.D., is a philosopher, grief theorist, and educator. For more than twenty years, she has taught philosophy, death and dying, world religions, and interdisciplinary humanities while facilitating grief retreats and practitioner trainings. Her work integrates phenomenology, somatics, contemplative practice, and interdisciplinary scholarship to develop Living Grief Theory, a new framework for understanding love, loss, and meaning.
