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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Grieving people come in all shapes and sizes - widows, widowers, parents, children, best friends, business colleagues and casual acquaintances. Sometimes the grief is life's most devastating kind...the death of a spouse, parent, child or close friend. Other times, grief comes in the form of a relationship ended, a job lost or even a job won. Whatever its form, grief is worth understanding and worth working through. The founder of Corgenius testifies to that with her life. What many people don't know is that grief support can be taught. Everyone can learn excellent ways to support all the grieving people who will cross their path in a lifetime. On this page we tell you about the services and products we offer.
Grieving people come in all shapes and sizes - widows, widowers, parents, children, best friends, business colleagues and casual acquaintances. Sometimes the grief is life's most devastating kind...the death of a spouse, parent, child or close friend. Other times, grief comes in the form of a relationship ended, a job lost or even a job won. Whatever its form, grief is worth understanding and worth working through. The founder of Corgenius testifies to that with her life. What many people don't know is that grief support can be taught. Everyone can learn excellent ways to support all the grieving people who will cross their path in a lifetime. On this page we tell you about the services and products we offer.
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| Grief Training Services and Products
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We do six things better than any other company we know.
- We speak at events and conferences as a keynote or workshop presenter.
- We deliver private, in-office training ranging from a one-hour session to a multi-day engagement.
- We provide phone coaching to answer questions or address specific situations. This reaches both sides of the table; in addition to using the service personally, a Corgenius client can pay for or recommend coaching to their client or family member.
Click here to listen
to sample coaching phone calls.
- We custom-write anything from condolence cards to articles for your newsletter.
- We conduct client-sponsored seminars with topics ranging across a broad spectrum - i.e. ensuring end-of-life wishes are followed, supporting friends and family in tough times, finding life after loss and grief, surviving widowhood, etc.
- We offers lists of resources, including an annotated bibliography of over 80 books that advisors can read, recommend, or give as gifts, with each book described in detail to make selections easier.
Most of our workshops are delivered at industry conferences or private corporate
training. However, several times per year we self-sponsor workshops. See
Engagements for these sessions.
Click on each heading below for a short paragraph with the details of our
services and products. If we've piqued your interest, contact us to discuss
speaking at your conference or arranging private training for your company.
We promise to teach and entertain you, surprise and delight you, challenge and
change you.
Prepare To Meet Thy Boomsm is a four-part presentation series. These are appropriate as a keynote address, conference workshop, or private corporate training. The four session have a logical progression from one to the next. Just a few of the topics include:
- An amusing and compassionate look at grief in our death-denying American culture, where we paste on a happy face and "put it behind us". Why is it important in your profession? What do you need to know about the grief experienced by those you serve so you can build trust and loyalty and boost your bottom line?
- Do you realize how many tired, worn-out platitudes we use when we don't know what else to say? This is not good for business or personal relationships. How can you learn to change your "phrase vocabulary" so you leave behind the same old trite statements and offer genuine empathy?
- Many people have a hard time making big decisions, especially when they are under stress or dealing with grief and loss in their lives. They can't concentrate, they forget things, they seem to lose their rational thought processes. So what do you do? How can you reach through the fog to guide people through the decision-making process, ensuring a beneficial outcome for both of you?
We are often asked to create a custom session which focuses on the special needs of the target audience. If you think a custom session might be desirable for your situation, please contact us.
One part of "Amy Answers" provides on-demand coaching, over the phone or in-person, when you want personal input on how to handle a specific situation or how to better understand what you have picked up in one of our other offerings.
The writing part of this service enables you to communicate with grieving people in a highly personal and highly knowledgeable fashion. The process is simple. We discuss with you the circumstances of a situation. We then draft a letter for you. You make editorial adjustments, perhaps interact with us on it a few more times, then send it. The letter helps you support your client or patient and educates both parties.
Both services ensure that you are never left without resources when you need additional coaching, help, or instruction.
The process begins by you buying block of coaching, writing, training, and consulting hours through our online store.
This practical service provide one-on-one, in-person grief coaching for you or someone you serve. These sessions function in the time-honored way of sharing the burden with one who understands. You talk confidentially about what you are experiencing, and get the basic support and information you need to cope and heal.
These are not counseling sessions – if you require psychiatric treatment or psychological counsel, we refer you to an appropriate practitioner.
Supporting the above services is a series of company-branded "Joy is Possible" notes which are one page educational and inspirational support letters covering grief from the bereaved person's perspective.
- One condolence letter sent at the time the firm learns of the loss.
- Six letters sent monthly for the first six months.
- Three letters sent every other month for the remainder of the first year.
- Four letters sent every quarter for the second year
Corgenius manages the production, delivery, and tracking of the letters, but they appear on your letterhead.
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| The Gravity of Good Business
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The people that hire us all have one thing in common---they know that the empathetic bond and rapport they establish with their clientele is crucial to creating the trust and long term loyalty upon which good business is based. They know that there are helpful ways to support grieving clients and want to learn the art and science of grief support.
People in this country are hungry for community, for understanding, and for stable and loyal relationships. We live in such a mobile, transient society. People gravitate toward anything, even service providers, that give them a sense of security, anything they believe they can trust, anything which can legitimately hold their loyalty.
It would be nice if they gravitated to you.
The people that hire us all have one thing in common---they know that the empathetic bond and rapport they establish with their clientele is crucial to creating the trust and long term loyalty upon which good business is based. They know that there are helpful ways to support grieving clients and want to learn the art and science of grief support.
People in this country are hungry for community, for understanding, and for stable and loyal relationships. We live in such a mobile, transient society. People gravitate toward anything, even service providers, that give them a sense of security, anything they believe they can trust, anything which can legitimately hold their loyalty.
It would be nice if they gravitated to you.
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Printable Brochure
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