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International Childhood Trauma Conference
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Workshop: Embodying Grief: Moving Through Loss and Trauma
Workshop

Workshop

11:30 am

22 August 2025

Room 210 & 211

Themes

ICTC

Session Description
Paul Denniston leads participants through carefully crafted chair-based easy Grief Yoga® practices that support the processing of healing from the pain of all kinds of heartbreak, trauma and loss through movement. He discusses ways that grief can become stuck in the body and will demonstrate how movement, breath and sound can help clients release accumulated emotions to navigate the complex territory of grief whilst strengthening their capacity for authentic connection with self and others.

Learning Objectives: 
1. Demonstrate specific movement practices that help clients process grief and strengthen their resilience
2. Apply understanding of embodied grief work to support clients in maintaining and deepening relationships while honoring their losses
3. Explore and embody how play can help process grief and trauma
Speakers
Session Program
Paul Denniston leads participants through carefully crafted chair-based easy Grief Yoga® practices that support the processing of healing from the pain of all kinds of heartbreak, trauma and loss through movement. He discusses ways that grief can become stuck in the body and will demonstrate how movement, breath and sound can help clients release accumulated emotions to navigate the complex territory of grief whilst strengthening their capacity for authentic connection with self and others.

Learning Objectives: 
1. Demonstrate specific movement practices that help clients process grief and strengthen their resilience
2. Apply understanding of embodied grief work to support clients in maintaining and deepening relationships while honoring their losses
3. Explore and embody how play can help process grief and trauma
Resources