INTERNATIONAL DEATH, GRIEF, AND BEREAVEMENT CONFERENCE
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2025
International Death, Grief, and Bereavement Conference
Effects of Ancestral, Generational, and Cultural Shared Grieving
Pre-conference: June 1, 2025
Conference: June 2–4, 2025
Student Union
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
521 East Avenue N
La Crosse, WI 54601
Who should attend
Behavioral Health Professionals • Case Managers • Clergy • Counselors • Educators • Funeral Directors • Healthcare Professionals • Hospice providers • Palliative Care Providers • Program Directors • Social Workers
How you will benefit:
• Share in intimate and transformative educational experiences.
• Foster new relationships and connections to stay with you through your career.
• Gain insight and grow to new levels both personally and professionally.
In our diverse and rich world, it is important to explore global, cultural and ethical contexts of the death, dying and grief experience among dying persons, family members, healthcare providers and within support circles and systems.
Death, grief, and bereavement are shared experiences among the general population globally in times of war, genocide, political unrest, societal violence, and when there is large mass death and grief as we saw recently in the COVID-19 pandemic.
2025 Conference topics will explore:
- How do these collective events shape the grieving process in populations?
- How do these factors impact the experience of bereavement?
- How does one's generational identity shape the experience of collective mourning?
- How do we effectively address shared grieving?
NBCC
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Graduate & Extended Learning has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider™ , ACEP No. 6303. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Graduate & Extended Learning is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Planning Committee
• Gerry Cox, Ph.D., UW-La Crosse, Emeritus
• Dan Festa, Ph.D., Pastor
• Laurel Elizabeth Hilliker, Ph.D., FT, Sociologist
• Karen McGarvey, UW-La Crosse
• Amber Miller-Adamany, UW-La Crosse
• Erica Srinivasan, Ph.D., UW-La Crosse (credentialing)
• Andrew Vitale, CT, Author
• Milandrie Wakim, UW-La Crosse
