Lyn Prashant, Phd., FT., IGC.
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
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
Publications and Multimedia
Education:
ADEC Fellow in Thanatology and Provider of ADEC/CA approved curriculum
MBSR-Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction: Teacher 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
ADEC –Association for Death Education & Counseling
Annual Conferences 2008 to Present
- 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
- First holistic health spa in South America’s southern cone.
Created fully bilingual program focused on international tourism
Publications and Multimedia
- 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 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
MBSR-Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction: Teacher Training
John F. Kennedy University’s Graduate School of Professional Psychology
Grief Counseling Certification Program
Complete Chronology Available Upon Request
