About Kevin
Life and Death go hand in hand for me
Life is about living but it is also about dying. As a young child I became aware through personal experience that the way in which people grieve and honor their grief was not always done in healthy ways. I became interested in the grieving process and throughout my life I have been enriched and amazed at the ways in which people who are grieving (when allowed to grieve) find ways to express, feel and experience the loss of someone loved.
I believe that I have a compassionate heart and have worked for many years to help those who are grieving do their own work. I am honored to support and encourage others to find the tools that will help them work on their grief at their own pace and in their own time. I know that each person is unique and therefore work on their own grief in a way that is just as unique.
After being a member on the board of Crossroads Hospice Society in Port Moody, British Columbia for four years I was invited to develop their first grief support program. As a consequence, I became their first Bereavement Coordinator and researched, developed and implemented a compassionate grief support program that provided a safe place to share their stories of grief but also to provide some information on the grieving process as well. I had the pleasure of working closely with Pete O’Reilly (Crossroads Service Coordinator) as we shared co-facilitation of Crossroads three levels of training.
One day I had a vision of the name “griefiswork.ca” and I decided it needed to be built. There are many people who can not or do not want to attend a grief support program and I felt that they were falling between the cracks. Some people are just not physically able to attend or perhaps there are no programs in their area. Others are more comfortable with a computer and do not have time to take a grief group. Still others feel more comfortable one on one. I truly believe that people need to know that grief is work, the hardest work anyone will ever have to do. If grief is not worked on, a person can become stuck and just exist and not live a full, rich life. If they chose to do the work (and it is a choice) they need not do it alone.
I have built this website so that those who are looking for more information on the grieving process can gain ideas on which tools work best for them so that they can do their own grief work.
Kevin is also a Key Note Speaker presenting topics such as:
Healing Forgiveness for Self and Others
Clearing Up Communications
Listening and Hearing the Spirit
Kevin also leads work shops on topic such as:
What to Say to a Dying Person
What is Grief and How to do the Work
Being Touched by the Spirit
And there’s more
10 week long Grief Manual for those who wish to run a grief program (has everything, every word and every exercise you will need to run the group.)
Soon to come to this web site,
10 session grief support program on line (with feedback by Kevin)
DVD for purchase on “Tools for doing your own grief work”
You Can Do It and He Can Help!
