May 2024: Advanced Learning in Palliative Medicine Conference, Toronto ON.

Keynote: The Deep Side of Loss and Trauma: Centralizing What Matters Most

May 2023: Nova Scotia Hospice Palliative Care Association

Keynote: The many faces of loss and trauma: Deepening our awareness in uncertain times

November 2022, WINNIPEG Planning with Pride Conference

Keynote: The Deep Spaces in Grief and Loss: Making Meaning in Changing Times

Sometimes we experience loss and change with great difficulty. In moments of extraordinary transition, be it pandemic, global upheaval, or the death of someone close, profound questions tend to come up. Who am I now and where am I going? What do I do with these feelings of hopelessness and powerlessness? How do I deal with something that has brought me to my knees? These questions often elude simple answers. However, in these dark passages we may be tasked to go to deep places because it is necessary if we are to go forward. This talk seeks to develop constructive responses to these humbling moments of loss and trauma by addressing questions that centralize what matters most to each of us.

January 2021 Online course

BEREAVEMENT PSYCHOTHERAPY:

A MEANING-ENHANCING APPROACH TO LOSS**

**COURSE FULL: PLEASE CONTACT US TO BE PUT ON THE WAITLIST FOR THE NEXT TRAINING

The program consists of 12 sessions of 1.5 hours (18 hours total OPQ continuing education credits) offering psychotherapeutic training in working with clients confronting loss, bereavement, and life transition drawing largely on constructivist (meaning-centered) approaches. Course content keeps pace with the latest developments in the fields of psychotherapy, loss, and bereavement. The program addresses psychological assessment, case conceptualization, and psychotherapeutic skills. The course will be offered over Zoom.

Cost: Regular; $900; Student rate: $800; Group Rate for Institutions: $700 per person, minimum 3 registrants.

Family Medicine Forum November 2020:

Physicians, Heal Thyselves: Responding to workplace-related grief

With Cornelius Woelk, MD, CCFP (PC), FCFP; Chris MacKinnon, PhD, OPQ; and Viola Woelk

Healing Broken Hearts Online Conference November 2020

Grieving in 2020: Canadian Virtual Hospice presents Bereavement in a time of Global Pandemic

Host: Christopher MacKinnon / Panel Members: Christina Frangou, Cherie Kok, Paul Adams

Centralizing the “Other” Pandemic: Humanizing the Grief of Opioid Loss

Host: Christopher MacKinnon / Panel Members: Jennifer Howard, Andrew Robertson

Grief and Covid-19: A 10-Part Webinar Series: Spring - Summer 2020

This 10-Part Webinar Series was put on by the Canadian Virtual Hospice and co-hosted with Marney Thompson of Victoria Hospice.