What I Offer
At the Fabula Center, I offer a variety of services to support professionals, who want to learn a better way to speak with people who are dying, and people who are living with grief.
At Lorraine’s training center, The Fabula Center, she works with the raw material of stories and weave them into narratives that are life, and love affirming. Lorraine offers a variety of services to support professionals, who want to learn a better way to speak with people who are dying, and people who are living with grief.
In order to help those who are living with grief, knowledge is needed about how to connect memories together to create sustaining stories that honor ongoing connections. Trainings, both group and individual are provided to support professions who want to walk alongside of dying and bereaved people, inspiring and guiding to put one foot in front of the other in new and loving ways.
Workshops
Lorraine offers one-day introductory workshops to community agencies and facilities. People who attend workshops come away feeling inspired to learn more but also equipped to have new and refreshing conversations with dying and bereaved people.
Who Should Attend Training Sessions With Lorraine
Many people from varying professional backgrounds find benefit in training with Lorraine. As professionals need to be prepared to address issues of death and grief, the training can be supportive for counselors, psychologists, nurses, physicians, hospice and palliative care workers, funeral celebrants, social workers, ministers, students, and those interested in new ideas about death, dying and bereavement.
What People Have Said About Attending a Day Long Training With Lorraine
Really lovely experience in all facets.
I thoroughly enjoyed all of the material and discussions today and am excited to apply it to both my personal and professional lives.
Great training, appreciated the deepening, the practice, tools, safety.
She was fantastic and had a relatable presentation style.
The instructor was knowledgeable, thoughtful, and engaging to listen to. The examples and language samples will be helpful in my work, as well as the philosophical framework. I got so much that I can really implement. Amazing.
Presenter was engaged and dynamic. The partnered conversations were effective in reinforcing her points. She stayed focused & kept the sessions moving.
I loved her energy, presentation style, everything.
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What People Have Said About Attending in Depth Training Programs With Lorraine
All instruction included practice and implementation with feedback from participants. This made the 5 days of training responsive & invigorating.
I appreciated Dr. Hedtke’s expertise and real life experience that brought to life a more complete understanding of the each of the topics we covered.
Lorraine is so empathetic and caring. The practices of her showing demonstration interviews and our practicing with one another made the ideas come to life.
I was hesitant to take the 3 days of training. After signing up at the hospital, my father had passed away right before the workshops started. But I felt a strong personal connection to the subject matter. This class held deep meaning for me, it felt therapeutic and offered a space for healing, not just for myself but for many of my peers as well and offered usable skills that will shape my conversations. I can’t thank you enough for this.
Lorraine is amazing! I am so glad to have taken this workshop with her, and really learned so much from her.... I had read some of her work before, but being in the training brought it to life that the books couldn’t.
Dr. Hedtke always gave the group 100 precent of her passion for the topic. We focused on group counseling skills for two of the days which will be vitally important at the community counseling center where I work. Thank you for bringing your skill and compassion to us.
In Depth Trainings
Lorraine offers trainings in a variety of contexts. Some take place over a three or five day period depending on the specific outline of the training program. People who have an interest in death, dying and grief, will establish trainings for hospital staff, educational settings, and privately working in counseling communities. Trainings happen all over the world to learn a narrative approach that supports innovative, life and love affirming conversations that are useful when speaking with people who are dying and people who are living with grief.
While training might focus on some different aspects to professional practice, there remains some similarities. Participants are introduced to narrative concepts and “re-membering practices”, which is a particular model of therapeutic conversation developed by Lorraine Hedtke. Participants come away with an ability to distinguish between conventional bereavement conversations and narratively informed conversations. These distinct pathways construct dramatically differing conversations with people who are dying and people who are grieving. At the foundation of intensive training is building a strong theoretical platform that propels forward the art of remembering questions which celebrates story, narrative and a relational approach to find ways through the most challenging of times.
Narrative conversations about death and grief are less about the passive suffering of loss and more about growing invigorating identity stories amid the ongoing transitions that death brings. Participants in the training also often come away with a sense or liveliness and are provided with a new way to think about death and grief, professionally and personally.
Each in depth training module is coordinated with the needs of the agency. In addition to learning about remembering conversations for families and individuals, trainings can include modules on group counseling for the bereaved, working with families and individuals who had a complex relationship with the deceased and/or the person died in challenging circumstances, and working with families when a baby or child dies.
Support for People who are Dying and People who are Bereaved
Lorraine offers two different kinds of conversations to support those living with a broken heart either facing death or following the death of a loved one. These conversations take place with people all over the world to find comfort at times when life has turned upside down. Lorraine guides the conversations with gentle questions to find all the ways in which dying does not end a life where we can create legacies of stories, love, and belonging between the living and the dead. All conversations are recorded so you will have an electronic lifelong keepsake for those to refresh their connections over the years.
Sign Up for a Remembering Conversation Today!
If you or a loved one would like to help enshrine memories, values and legacy to pass down through generations with the guidance with Dr. Lorraine Hedtke, sign up using our form below. Or if you have questions about the process, feel free to reach out on the contact page. Payment is due at time of registration.