Lyn Prashant, Phd., FT., IGT., IGC., CMTI.
Somatic Thanatologist
415-457-2272
lyn@degriefing.com
http://www.degriefing.com
Objective:
To bring the myriad benefits and applications of Degriefing® to the broadest possible audience. I have developed and used this methodology in situations ranging from individual therapy up to an entire community of ten thousand, from a mother grieving her lost child, to developing a curriculum for prison populations exorcising their accumulated grief. “Grief is the most available, untapped, emotional resource for personal transformation.”
Skills:
Bi-lingual Consultant
Compelling Public Speaker
Author
General Manager
Program Developer
Teacher/Trainer
Individual practitioner
English-Spanish patient advocate
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Teacher
Sivananda Yoga Instructor
Certified Massage Therapy Instructor
Certified California CE provider
Hospice Spiritual Counselor
Recent Keynote and Educational Presentations
Addiction Specialists-Behavioral Sciences Dept.,Santa Clara County, CA.
St. Luke's Hospice, Cape Town, South Africa,
Holocaust Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
ADEC –Association for Death Education & Counseling
Annual Conferences 2008 to Present
Bay Area Jewish Healing Center Conference Keynote/Featured Speaker 2011
Northern California Activity Directors Association 2011
Mayo Clinic
CAMTA California Massage Therapy Association
Experience
California Pacific Medical Center 2007- Pres.
Integrative Medical Education Institute for Health and Healing Adjunct Staff Trainer
General Manager (curriculum developer)
Publications and Multimedia
Education:
ADEC Fellow in Thanatology and Provider of ADEC/CA approved curriculum
University of Integrative Learning- registered curriculum for transforming grief
MBSR-Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction: Teacher Training
Sivananda Yoga Professional Training
John F. Kennedy University’s Graduate School of Professional Psychology
Grief Counseling Certification Program
***Complete Chronology Available Upon Request
Somatic Thanatologist
415-457-2272
lyn@degriefing.com
http://www.degriefing.com
Objective:
To bring the myriad benefits and applications of Degriefing® to the broadest possible audience. I have developed and used this methodology in situations ranging from individual therapy up to an entire community of ten thousand, from a mother grieving her lost child, to developing a curriculum for prison populations exorcising their accumulated grief. “Grief is the most available, untapped, emotional resource for personal transformation.”
Skills:
Bi-lingual Consultant
Compelling Public Speaker
Author
General Manager
Program Developer
Teacher/Trainer
Individual practitioner
English-Spanish patient advocate
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Teacher
Sivananda Yoga Instructor
Certified Massage Therapy Instructor
Certified California CE provider
Hospice Spiritual Counselor
Recent Keynote and Educational Presentations
Addiction Specialists-Behavioral Sciences Dept.,Santa Clara County, CA.
- 2017-18 Staff Trainings
St. Luke's Hospice, Cape Town, South Africa,
- 2013-2016 Staff Trainings
Holocaust Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
- 2017 Staff Training
- 2004-2018 San Francisco Bay area and San Miguel de Allende, Gto., Mexico
ADEC –Association for Death Education & Counseling
Annual Conferences 2008 to Present
- 2015- Feeding the Bereaved
- 2013-Transforming Grief with "Yoga for Degriefing"
- 2012-Degriefing Communities: Healing Hearts, Raton, NM
- 2011-Living with My Dying Husband at the Living Dying Project
- 2008-Transforming Grief with Integrative Therapy
Bay Area Jewish Healing Center Conference Keynote/Featured Speaker 2011
- Working with Grief: professional, workplace and personal life.
Northern California Activity Directors Association 2011
- Keynote speaker Transforming Grief in an Assisted Living Community
Mayo Clinic
- Keynote Speaker National Alzheimer’s Conference 2005
- Degriefing in the Workplace, presentation 2003
CAMTA California Massage Therapy Association
- Degriefing for massage therapists at annual conference. 2005
- Presentation: Good Grief
Experience
California Pacific Medical Center 2007- Pres.
Integrative Medical Education Institute for Health and Healing Adjunct Staff Trainer
- Transforming Grief in the Medical Setting for Nurses
- Degriefing Massage for Hands-on Professionals (16 hr. seminar)
- Instructor, Program Director& Curriculum Co-Author of “Changing Paradigms of Loss and Grief for the New Century”
- Community Degriefing: Five days of seminars and programs for the entire town.
- Trained staff in working with somatic grief
- Trainer, Cultivating Balance and Companioning Grief
- Presented Degriefing seminars in forty-four cities
General Manager (curriculum developer)
- First holistic health spa in South America’s southern cone.
Created fully bilingual program focused on international tourism
Publications and Multimedia
- Sibling Loss Across the Lifespan: Research, Practice, Personal Stories Drs. Brenda Marshall & Howard Winokuer, ed. 2016
- Techniques in Grief Therapy: Creative approaches for counseling the bereaved Dr. Robert A. Neimeyer, ed. “Degriefing Caregiver Burden”, p.365 2012
- What does it Mean to ‘ Transform Grief, Interview at Seven Ponds 2012
- Video Interview with Antonio Sausys, YogiViewsTV 2011
- Open to Hope, Inspirational stories of healing after loss, 2011
- Open to Hope Audio Interview, Grieving the loss of a Spouse 2009-2010
- Tele-Interview with Sally Gelardin 2009
- Massage & Bodywork Magazine Degriefing: Five Part Series 2002-2006
- KGO Radio, San Francisco, The Karel Show, Gay Pride Parade Degriefing 2005
- Compassionate Friends Magazine “Remembering my sister Donna” 2010
- Degriefing Training manual: Transforming Somatic Grief, self published 2001
- Living/Dying Project, Video and presentation, Living with my Husband at the Living Dying Project 1983-4
Education:
ADEC Fellow in Thanatology and Provider of ADEC/CA approved curriculum
University of Integrative Learning- registered curriculum for transforming grief
MBSR-Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction: Teacher Training
Sivananda Yoga Professional Training
John F. Kennedy University’s Graduate School of Professional Psychology
Grief Counseling Certification Program
***Complete Chronology Available Upon Request
