This webinar series was hosted live in 2025 and offers vital insights to navigate grief in career conversations.
What you'll learn
Career service participants often face loss – from layoffs and career setbacks to the death of a loved one, illness, relocation or relationship changes – yet grief is not commonly discussed in career conversations. When these losses go unacknowledged, people may unable to move forward. But what if the emotions and experiences of grief and loss could serve as windows into new career possibilities?
In this recorded webinar series, you will explore different types of loss, grief theory basics, and myths about grief. Through practical tools and grief theory basics, you’ll gain strategies to address service participants’ losses and help them translate difficult experiences into new skills, abilities and career possibilities.
Identify different types of losses, including “living losses,” and their impacts on service participants
Understand how denying the impact of losses can affect people’s sense of well-being
Learn how recognizing loss and its emotions can help catalyze growth
Gain practical tools to recognize and address losses and accompanying emotions
And much more!
Webinars Overview
Through this webinar, you will:
- 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) and 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
This webinar will support you to better understand:
- The process of grieving – its many facets, twists and turns – including comparing and contrasting some grief models
- The interplay of grief and time
- The meaning and sense-making aspects of the grief process, and how to link these with career conversations
With this webinar, you will be able to:
- Identify how the Good Fit Model 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
- Develop prompts to translate the knowledge, skills and abilities of loss experiences into pain/passion points, and connect those with career possibilities
A CERIC-CCPA Partner Webinar Series
Registration Includes
• 3 hour-long recorded webinars to learn at your own pace
• A downloadable certificate upon completion
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Register
$90.00
Meet the Presenter
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.
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About CERIC
CERIC is a charitable organization that is dedicated to the advancement of education, research and advocacy in career counselling and development. We fund projects and provide innovative resources and learning opportunities that build the knowledge and skills of diverse career and employment professionals.