2-Day CBC Traumatic Grief Provider Council at Selah Carefarm

Join the Transformative 2-Day CBC Traumatic Grief Provider Council

Are you ready to deepen your practice and make a lasting impact on those navigating traumatic grief? The 2-Day CBC Traumatic Grief Provider Council is an immersive, compassionate, and transformative experience designed for providers seeking to elevate their skills, foster resilience, and cultivate holistic care for self and other. Set in the serene, nature-rich environment of Selah Carefarm, surrounded by rescued animals and tranquil landscapes, this council offers a unique blend of clinical expertise, ethical exploration, and personal renewal.

March 20–21 at Selah Carefarm: A transformative 2-day council to deepen your practice in traumatic grief care.

Master Compassionate Care: Learn to apply Cacciatore’s Integrative Grief Assessment to deeply understand clients’ emotional journeys, crafting holistic care plans that honor the whole person—mind, body, and spirit- and help us learn about ourselves!
Navigate Complex Ethical Challenges: Engage in dynamic discussions on ethical dilemmas, from client autonomy to self disclosure, ensuring your practice remains compassionate and respectful.
Integrate Cutting-Edge Research: Stay ahead with the latest findings on traumatic grief, mindfulness, and nature based approaches for self and other, and discover practical ways to weave these insights into your work for better outcomes.

Build Resilience for You and Your Clients: Explore strategies to foster client resilience while nurturing your own emotional well-being and self care through mindfulness, peer support, animals and nature, and reflective practices in a nurturing natural setting.
Honor Cultural Sensitivity: Develop culturally informed approaches to grief counseling, ensuring your practice meets the diverse needs of every client with empathy and respect.
Connect and Collaborate: Join a supportive community of professionals in open forums to share successes, challenges, and innovative ideas, fostering lifelong connections and collaborative growth.

Holding Space and Helping Hearts: CBC Advanced Skills Course

Enhance your expertise in traumatic grief care with the CBC Advanced Skills Course, led by Dr. Joanne Cacciatore. This intensive program, held in Sedona, Arizona, offers 16 CE credits and delves into therapeutic alliance, contemplative grief work, and innovative care methods. Limited space for an intimate learning experience.

An advanced program, taught by Dr. Joanne Cacciatore, for medical or mental health providers, CBC certified.

Providers are seeking more in-depth training on practice specific skills and creative, culturally sensitive care to those who are traumatically bereaved. This course will cover four specific areas:

Relationship and safety in the therapeutic alliance
Contemplative approaches for in-depth work with traumatic grief
Ritual and metaphor
A rudimentary overview of animal and nature-based methods

What to Expect:

Day 1: Dive into clinical case discussions, care plan reviews, and ethical considerations, with a focus on compassionate, client-centered strategies. The afternoon will be spent on self care here at the carefarm with annuals and nature and creative expression.
Day 2: Engage in research updates, reflective self-care sessions, and mindfulness training amidst the calming backdrop of Selah Carefarm. Again, the afternoon will be spent on self care here at the carefarm with annuals and nature and creative expression.
Unique Setting: The council takes place in an inspiring environment designed to rejuvenate, with evening mindfulness sessions and opportunities to connect with nature and animals.

Learning Outcomes:

Enhance your ability to create adaptive, culturally sensitive care plans.
Master ethical decision-making in traumatic grief therapy.
Build personal and professional resilience to sustain your impactful work.
Leave equipped with practical tools, renewed purpose, and a network of like-minded professionals.

Who Should Attend?

CBC providers passionate about advancing their expertise in traumatic grief care and fostering their own well-being. Providers must have completed the CBC Training and Certification Program to enroll in the CBC Provider Council.

Our Upcoming Compassionate Bereavement Care® Events

Travel Info

Our Compassionate Bereavement Care training program will take place in our newly built, state-of-the-art meeting room at the MISS Foundation’s Selah House near Sedona, Arizona. Address will be provided to attendees. Attendees may find nearby hotel accommodations in areas close to Selah House (zip code 86325) in Old town Cottonwood, the Village of Oak Creek, and Sedona.

Events

Oct

Holding Space and Helping Hearts : CBC Advanced Skills Course

2026-10-29 @ 08:00 AM - 2026-10-30 @ 05:00 PM

Arizona

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Secure Your Spot Today!

Don’t miss this opportunity to transform your practice, connect with a compassionate community, and find renewal in a setting that nurtures both heart and mind. Register now for the 2-Day CBC Traumatic Grief Provider Council. Click the button below to register and reserve your space for the program, and, if you would like to stay onsite, please reserve your room as soon as possible. Space is limited. Registration fee: $550 (includes lunches provided both days). Lodging fee is not included.

TESTIMONIALS

Robert D. Stolorow, PhD

“(This) course on the understanding of and therapeutic approach to traumatic grief is sorely needed in the context of the pathologizing, get-over-it-and move-on attitude that pervades our culture… It will provide a thorough, systematic, and eminently practical exploration of the phenomenology of and evidence-based approaches to grief trauma that will be invaluable to practicing clinicians at all levels.”

Karla Helbert, LPC

“It’s hard to articulate how this training impacted me. Having already done this work for a while, I recognize I have only barely scratched the surface of how deep is the well. I’ve learned so much about turning toward my own pain, turning toward someone else’s pain and seeing how deep we can truly go–humans joining together in pain, in life, in love, in beauty. I’ve learned so much about being with someone else in the places no one else wants to see.”

Shannon Norberg

“I want to thank you for the past four days…Thank you for putting this training together, for bringing such a group of precious hearts together, for creating and holding the space for such immense opening and transformation to occur. (The) teaching is outstanding. Dr Joanne Cacciatore is a captivating speaker and clearly has so much inner, outer, all around, intuitive and research based knowledge – the transmission of everything was just so direct and heartfelt. I enjoyed listening to stories and the miracle of how she somehow has every relevant paper filed away in her mind, accessible at a moment’s notice, it was truly awe-inspiring to grasp just how much she knows and contributes and completely lives out this work. I have never experienced instruction that was so balanced between the academic world and the world of the heart, both were woven together so that there was really no division – each complimented and reinforced and built upon the other and made learning – and absorbing – effortless… I could go on and on and on.. I thought I was broken open before, walking around with a very bare heart and little skin. I now feel as though my heart and nervous system are the ones rolling ahead of me as I go, picking up every nuance and every story of every person I pass, forget skin, forget barriers, and yet I am somehow able to hold it all. I can’t wait to put the tools into practice, I can’t wait to re-read my notes and all the slides and all of the incredible resources you provided. I can’t wait for bibliotherapy. I can’t wait to sit. Thank you for an incredible experience, life altering without a doubt, world changing.”

Paul Wyant Kahn, LCSW, DCSW

“(This) is a rare program in our field…implemented for nearly fifteen years and has helped hundreds of families and individuals through traumatic grief. The model has been subjected to a number of experiments and in published papers shown empirically to have dramatic healing validity and reliability. I have personally met and interviewed those (treated with) this program, (including) men and women who have lost children suddenly and through disease, accidents and violence. I was astonished at their ability to discuss with both deep emotion and equanimity their loss, their process through grief, and their gradual reconnection with the flow of their lives. I served as a lead clinician treating a Cambodian population who survived Pot Pol and were moved from refugee camps in Thailand to the South Bronx. I also worked in the South Bronx when a large portion was burned down in riots and street violence was rampant during the addiction madness of the “crack” epidemic. I know intimately how difficult it is to help traumatized people. As a seasoned clinician, I want (this training) brought forward as a “best practice” and to see treatment professionals educated and using it as a primary intervention. I can share with you my unequivocal recommendation of the Compassionate Bereavement Care Certification.”

Lynn Farrales MD MSc CCFP

“I found this course to be of exceptional value to enhance my practice as a family physician who provides care for those who have experienced traumatic grief. The course provides students with the basics of understanding trauma. But, what sets the Compassionate Bereavement Care Certification apart from other courses is that it invites practitioners to make a shift toward being more human in practice through a rich curriculum that includes lectures, actual/simulated patient encounters, role play and selected video showings. I have found more satisfaction in my work through making this shift in practice.”

CBC Provider Traumatic Grief Council