Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (media.blubrry.com) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.
Show Notes
Bonni Stachowiak explores how to care for grieving students.
PODCAST NOTES
How to care for grieving students
- Respect confidentiality… to a point
- Point them toward their resources
- Avoid assumptions… if you can
- Be human
- Don’t lower course requirements; let them earn their degree, not receive it through pity
- Recognize the pain of the neutral zone (coined by Bridges in his book: Transitions: Making sense of life’s changes)
- Avoid personalizing dishonesty
RECOMMENDATIONS
- Process your own grief
One wonderful book for processing one’s grief and going through transitions is William Bridges’ The Way of Transition: Embracing Life’s Most Difficult Moments.
We resist transition not because we can’t accept the change, but because we can’t accept letting go of that piece of ourselves that we have to give up when and because the situation has changed. – William Bridges