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ACBS Workshop Session—The Paradox of Fertility and Pregnancy Loss: How to Help Clients Accept the Immensity of Grief While Holding Hope for the Future
July 26, 2023 - July 28, 2023
Join Dr. Diana Hill and Dr. Alexis Karris Bachic for their workshop at the upcoming Association for Contextual Behavioral Science World Conference.
ACBS Workshop Session—The Paradox of Fertility and Pregnancy Loss: How to Help Clients Accept the Immensity of Grief While Holding Hope for the Future
Infertility and pregnancy loss are global health issues, affecting between 48 million couples and 186 million individuals worldwide. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), these rates are rising. Clients seek support around their infertility, losses, miscarriages, and grief, and therapists are often left without the tools, knowledge, or resources to help. Drawing from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Positive Psychology, and ancestral and contemplative wisdom, this workshop will guide practitioners in how to conceptualize and navigate the paradox of immense grief and hope. Participants will learn how to identify their own and clients’ experiential avoidance around infertility and pregnancy loss, skills for radical acceptance and hope, rituals to help with the grief and ongoing fertility journey, and useful resources. The workshop will provide personal examples from the presenters’ lived experiences, client examples, and engaging experiential exercises.