Legacy projects are meaningful ways to ensure that important aspects of your loved one’s life continue to have an impact on the world. These projects aren’t about memorializing the past but about carrying forward what matters in active, living ways. Legacy project planning focuses on how your deceased loved one formed who you are today and how these aspects continue to live on within you. What values or qualities of theirs do you want to carry forward? What would they want their legacy to be? Legacy projects can provide profound meaning by transforming grief into purposeful action that benefits others while honoring what was most significant about your loved one. 4-6 sessions
In “Rebuilding Social Connections”, clients will explore the complex social challenges faced by those who are grieving the loss of a loved one. Feeling pressured by others’ expectations, being misunderstood, or feeling abandoned can be exhausting and often leads to social withdrawal. This package will guide clients through the process of social reengagement, equipping them with the tools to maintain appropriate boundaries while fostering meaningful connections. Clients will learn to create personalized reengagement plans that cater to their unique grief experience, energy levels, and relationship contexts. Clients mark this journey as a pivotal point in their healing process - one that honors their loss while enabling them to envision a new meaningful future in their lives. 4-6 sessions
This package offers a compassionate space for clients who have lost a loved one and are seeking to find closure and healing. Through deep exploration of unexpressed feelings, words unspoken, appreciation unexpressed, apologies unmade, unresolved conflicts, and missed opportunities, clients find healing and resolution. Emphasizing transformation, not termination, this journey encourages the creation of a healthy continuing bond with the deceased, rather than severing ties. We will focus on integration, not erasure, inviting clients to weave both the positive and challenging aspects of their relationships into a coherent narrative that honors the complexity of love and loss. 4-6 Sessions
At the heart of this program is a comprehensive framework designed to guide clients from the initial impact of loss through a complete healing journey. The program is 8-12 sessions long and includes between session support as needed. Let’s explore an overview of these seven steps:
Step 1: Acknowledgment and Emotional Engagement
Breaking through numbness and denial to acknowledge the reality of the loss and begin engaging with authentic emotions.
Step 2: Emotional Regulation and Processing
Developing skills to navigate overwhelming emotions and grief bursts while processing the full emotional impact of the loss.
Step 3: Addressing Complicated Aspects
Working through traumatic circumstances, complicated grief factors, and challenging aspects of the loss experience. Referral to licensed therapists will be provided as needed.
Step 4: Relationship Completion
Resolving unfinished business, relationship regrets, and establishing healthy continuing bonds with the deceased.
Step 5: Identity Reconstruction
Rebuilding a sense of self and finding meaning when loss has changed fundamental aspects of identity and purpose.
Step 6: Social Reconnection
Navigating changed relationships, developing support networks, and addressing social isolation after significant loss.
Step 7: Integration and Growth
Integrating the loss experience into a new life narrative while cultivating growth, resilience, and renewed purpose.
Gottman Institute Certified Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work Program Leader
The Gottman Institute is a globally renowned organization dedicated to improving relationships and marriages through research-based practices and interventions. Founded by Dr. John Gottman and Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman, the institute is known for its work in relationship psychology , particularly in the areas of marital therapy and couple counseling.
The Institute employs a scientific approach to understanding relationships , relying on extensive empirical research, including observations of couples and longitudinal studies. This research has led to the development of effective therapeutic interventions designed to foster healthy relationship dynamics.
The Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work is a widely recognized book and program outlining key strategies couples can use to build and sustain strong relationships. As a Program Leader, Molly Zola leads couples into a deeper dive into Seven Principles, showing them how to strengthen their relationship, enhance their emotional bond, and improve their overall satisfaction in their life together.
The Program, using discussions, exercises and activities, takes participants through the following seven principles:
Enhance Your Love Maps - This principle emphasizes the importance of knowing your partner’s world. Couples should build a detailed understanding of each other’s history, dreams, preferences, and aspirations (the “Love Maps”). It’s about being intimately familiar with each other’s lives, which forms a strong foundation for a relationship
Nurture Your Fondness and Admiration - Maintaining a positive perspective about your partner is crucial. This principle encourages couples to express appreciation and affection regularly. By nurturing fondness and admiration, partners can counteract negativity and improve their connection, fostering goodwill and respect even during conflicts.
Turn Towards Each Other Instead of Away - Couples are encouraged to recognize and respond to each other’s bids for attention, affection, and support. Turning towards each other means actively engaging with your partner’s attempts to connect, rather than dismissing or neglecting them. This practice builds emotional intimacy and strengthens the bond between partners.
Let Your Partner Influence You - This principle focuses on mutual respect and allowing influence in decision-making. Couples would value each other’s opinions and feelings, which promotes equality in the relationship. When partners feel they can express themselves and be heard, it leads to greater collaboration and partnership.
Solve Your Solvable Problems- Not all conflicts in a relationship can be resolved, but man can. This principle provides strategies for addressing solvable problems through effective communication and compromise. It includes identifying the issue, discussing it calmly, and brainstorming solutions together.
Overcome Gridlock -Gridlock occurs when couples face perpetual issues that lead to recurring conflicts. This principle encourages couples to understand the underlying dreams and values associated with these conflicts. By gaining insight into each other’s deep needs and desires, partners can work towards finding a way to accommodate these issues, rather then allowing them to lead to resentment.
Create Shared Meaning- This principle emphasizes the importance of creating a shared sense of purpose and meaning within the relationship. It involves developing rituals, shared goals, and values that strengthen the couple’s bond. Couples are encouraged to cultivate traditions, shared dreams, and a common vision for their life together, thus enhancing their emotional connection.
This tickets for this program are sold at a per couple price.
