Free Information Session focuses on writing through bereavement.
By: National Widowers’ Organization , Inc.
NEW YORK – Feb. 20, 2024 – PRLog — Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD., will host a free a webinar sponsored by The National Widowers’ Organization. Writing through Bereavement February 28, 2024, 8:30-9:15 pm EST
Dr. Neimeyer will talk about techniques used from his writing for well-being work and will mention some of distinctive observations about men involved in his therapeutic writing groups.
Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD, directs the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition, a global online graining institute in grief therapy, and maintains an active consulting and coaching practice. Neimeyer has published over 600 journal articles and book chapters as well as 35 books, including New Techniques of Grief Therapy and The Handbook of Grief Therapies and serves as Editor of Death Studies. He is currently working to advance a more adequate theory of grieving as a meaning-making process.
Dr. Neimeyer will be joined by griever and National Widowers’ Organization Board member Joe Walko, who lost his wife. Joe used blogging and writing as a coping tool, culminating in two books. The workshop will conclude with 15 minutes for Q and A.
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The National Widowers’ Organization (https://nationalwidowers.org), a 501c3 non-profit corporation dedicated to and promoting support for grieving men and their families through public awareness, education, research, and advocacy. Visit the National Widowers’ Organization, website at nationalwidowers.org or our Men’s Grief Network website at mensgriefnetwork.org. Contact us by email at info@nationalwidowers.org for more information.
NEW YORK – Oct. 3, 2023 – PRLog — The National Widowers’ Organization, a nonprofit formed in 2009 to help men deal with grief, announces a free webinar on October 25th about, “NAVIGATING THE HOLIDAYS AS A GRIEVING FATHER.”
Noted author, Eric Washington (https://www.ekwashington.com/copy-of-about-the-author), will share his story about a son that died at the age of 23 due to asthma, which Eric also suffers from. He describes his grief as having good and bad days, relying on his work and his faith to keep him going and states “Glory be to God, I will continue to live life to the fullest because one day, we will all be called back home”. Eric was inspired to write a book about his grief, Getting Back Up After the Death of A Child (https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Back-After-Death-Child/dp/B0BQ9NGSTQ), to share his own experiences in the hopes that it will help others walking a path that no parent can fathom walking.
This webinar will focus on Eric Washington’s experience of the sudden death of his child. He will share with you the impact of this loss on him, how his faith keeps him going and what the holidays have been like for him since this unspeakable loss. This talk will be moderated by Joe Walko, a member of the National Widowers’ Organization Board of Directors and a griever himself, who has also facilitated men’s grief groups. Joe will offer helpful tips on how to get through a painful time of the year for those who are grieving.
Noted Cine actor and BJP Member of Parliament from Gurdaspur, Sunny Deol called on Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh and discussed with him the Shahpur Kandi Dam project located on the river Ravi which will benefit the border areas of districts Kathua and Pathankot respectively, which happen to be part of the adjacent Lok Sabha constituencies of Udhampur-Kathua-Doda represented by Dr Jitendra Singh and Gurdaspur represented by Sunny Deol.
Pertinent to mention that Shahpur Kandi Dam project had been stalled for the last over four decades and it was revived after the direct intervention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi who had also announced its launching during one of his visits to Jammu. The project, which has been declared as “National Project”, is scheduled to be completed in 2022 and will allow India to use the water from the river Ravi which was otherwise flowing into Pakistan, even though under the Indus-Water Treaty of 1960, the share of water from river Ravi was earmarked for India.
Soon after Dr. Jitendra Singh was elected as Member of Parliament from the region in 2014, he had started following up the project for its revival. Even though the project was planned many years ago, it could not be implemented due to lack of agreement between the State of Punjab and the then State of Jammu Kashmir. However, on the directions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a fresh draft of Agreement was prepared and the project was revived in 2018.
Dr. Jitendra Singh said, under the Indus Water Treaty of 1960, India has full right of water on three eastern rivers namely Ravi, Beas and Sutlej, but due to the callous attitude of the earlier governments, India’s share of water was flowing into Pakistan. He said, once the project is complete, it will improve irrigation potential of farmers in the areas bordering Jammu & Kashmir and Punjab.
Sunny Deol offered to accompany Dr Jitendra Singh for a joint visit to the site of the project, the main construction of which is coming up at location which happens to be the part of the constituency represented by Deol.
During the meeting, Sunny Deol also discussed some of the issues of mutual concern for the adjoining districts of Kathua and Pathankot, which are part of the two respective Lok Sabha constituencies. He also discussed the restrictions imposed at the Jammu& Kashmir- Punjab border on account of guidelines issued in the wake of Bird Flu precautions. The two leaders offered to hold a joint meeting with the administration to address issues impacting the two neighbouring districts.
