Chicago, IL - Losing an animal means losing a family member, and animal caregivers can learn how to honor the animal and grow through the grieving process during Legacies of Love: A Gentle Guide to Healing from the Loss of Your Animal Loved One hosted by the Animal Spirit Health and Education Network.
The 6-week teleclass led by author and animal communicator Teresa Wagner provides students with an opportunity to express their grief, understand their grief, and explore many strategies to heal their grief hands-on through active discussion and sharing stories.
“The overall objective of the workshop is to help heal the heart and use the crisis of loss to grow,” said Wagner. “It is beneficial for people who have lost an animal recently or in years past, and want to feel more peacefulness and closure about their loss. It is also an opportunity to strengthen our sense of connection with the Spirit of our animal loved ones.”
During Legacies of Love, animal caregivers will be able to:
$ Honor their animals by sharing their stories, the photos and their story of love
$ Share the fullness and truth of their love of animals and their experience of loss in the comforting presence of others who understand
$ Feel relief from sorrow and suffering
$ Embrace the lessons emerging from the loss itself
$ Learn practical grief recovery skills
“By exploring the legacies that transcend physical death – the mutal gifts and lessons of the relationship – and ways to integrate them into our way of being...that is perhaps the finest tribute we can make to our animal loved ones,” said Wagner.
Legacies of Love: A Gentle Guide to Healing from the Loss of Your Animal Loved One is a six-week teleclass scheduled for June 10-July 22, 2008. To learn more about the course, visit http://www.animalspiritnetwork.com/
About Animal Spirit Network
Animal Spirit Healing Education Network (ASN) provides distance learning and on-site animal wellness classes including Animal Communication, Shamanic Animal Healing, and Animal Reiki. ASN’s instructors are experts in their fields, with years of practical knowledge and professional teaching experience. Its programs and courses are designed for animal lovers and professionals from vet techs to groomers, trainers to handlers. To learn more visit www.animalspiritnetwork.com
About Teresa Wagner
Teresa Wagner is an author, animal communicator and workshop leader specializing in support services for people who love, serve and grieve animals. She brings unique qualifications to her work with animal and loss issues: a lifelong love of animals and inevitable experiences of losing them; training, counseling and research in the grief recovery field; graduate and postgraduate education in counseling; and over twenty years experience in training design and facilitation both as an internal and external consultant.Her traditional education includes a master's degree in counseling from Villanova University, studies atthe Grief Recovery Institute in Los Angeles, and post graduate work in counseling and organizational development at Columbia University, Wharton, and with Carl Rogers at the University of Nottingham, England. She has also completed the Clinical Training Program in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder at the National Center for PTSD, Dept. of Veterans Affairs. Her healing arts education includes animal communication with Jeri Ryan, flower essence training at FES and Perelandra, energy healing training in Reiki, Tellington-Touch and Therapeutic Touch and psychic studies with Evelyn Isadore.
