FOR PROFESSIONALS & ORGANIZATIONS
Upcoming Professional Workshop
Supporting People Through the Holiday Season
The holidays can raise questions about traditions, remembrance, and what feels right after loss
As a professional, you may already help clients explore remembrance, traditions, and connection after loss. This workshop focuses on the decisions behind that work: when an activity fits, how to introduce it without pressure, and how to adapt it to a client’s needs, preferences, and capacity.
Why Explore Growth After Loss?
The people you support are more than a single experience or outcome. Professional learning with Dr. Mari introduces posttraumatic growth and invites your team to connect the concept to their everyday work.
Understand What’s Possible in your work
Expand your understanding of life after loss. Explore what posttraumatic growth means—and how to discuss possibility without minimizing grief or expecting a positive outcome.
Make Room in Your Conversations
Reflect on the language and assumptions you bring to supporting others. Explore questions that leave room for each person’s experience, choices, and sense of what matters.
Connect the Learning to Your Work
Consider how a growth-informed perspective fits your role, your team, and the people you serve. Bring your questions and explore thoughtful applications within your professional boundaries.
Dr. Mari Marquez, PhD
Posttraumatic Growth Researcher, Educator, and Mom Parenting Through Loss
Supporting someone after loss takes more than knowing what to offer. It means considering when an approach fits, how to introduce it, and when to step back. Dr. Mari brings together academic research, lived experience, and her work supporting bereaved adults to help professionals explore these decisions with greater intention. Through Growth After Loss and her framework, The Five Pillars for Growth After Loss™, she connects research on grief, adaptation, and posttraumatic growth to the questions you encounter in your work—not simply to add another activity to your toolbox, but to examine the thinking behind the support you provide. Her focus is possibility: acknowledging what someone has lost while leaving room for what may still become meaningful—without rushing grief or expecting growth.
Bring This Conversation to Your Organization.
Workshops & Speaking With Dr. Mari
Your team may already provide thoughtful support after loss. You may also want a shared way to talk about growth, examine your approach, or consider how these ideas fit your work.
Invite Dr. Mari to speak at your professional-development event, team workshop, or conference. Virtual and in-person learning can focus on:
-
PTG literacy: understanding the concept without creating pressure to grow.
-
The Five Pillars for Growth After Loss™: exploring the framework’s relevance to your setting.
-
Thoughtful application: considering fit, timing, choice, and capacity.
-
Holidays and significant dates: approaching remembrance and traditions without assuming what someone needs.
Tell me about your audience and the questions they are bringing. We can discuss a focus for your event.
Growth After Loss™ is a research-guided framework for rebuilding your life after loss, one small step at a time.
GET STARTEDContact Details