Healing Grief at Work

100 Practical Ideas After Your Workplace Is Touched by Loss

Alan D Wolfelt, Alan Wolfelt

• Publisher: Companion Press
• Year: 2005
• eBook ISBN: 9781617220586
• Edition: 0
• Subtopic: Workplace Culture

With a gentle and considerate style, this handbook explores what happens when grief and the workplace meet, and the drastic effects of grieving on employees, their performance, and the overall workplace environment. Touching on the different kinds of grief workers can experience, such as death, divorce, and layoffs, the effective ways to channel grief during the workday, how to support coworkers who mourn, participation in group memorials, and negotiating appropriate bereavement leave, this concise and practical resource gives both ideas for the mourner and the mourner's coworkers. A special introduction for employers, owners, managers, and human resource personnel addresses the economic impact of grief in the workplace and provides practical and cost effective ideas for maintaining morale and creating a productive yet compassionate work environment.

Table of contents

• Also by Alan Wolfelt:
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Dedication
• INTRODUCTION
• CREATING A CULTURE OF COMPASSION
• 1. - ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE WORKPLACE IS A GRIEVING PLACE.
• 2. - OVERCOME DESTRUCTIVE MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT GRIEF AND MOURNING.
• 3. - UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GRIEF AND MOURNING.
• 4. - BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF STORY.
• 5. - RECOGNIZE THE EMOTIONS OF GRIEF.
• 6. - RECOGNIZE THE PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS OF GRIEF.
• 7. - RECOGNIZE THE COGNITIVE EFFECTS OF GRIEF.
• 8. - RECOGNIZE THE SOCIAL REPERCUSSIONS OF GRIEF.
• 9. - RECOGNIZE THE SPIRITUAL NATURE OF GRIEF.
• 10. - BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR DISENFRANCHISED GRIEF.
• 11. - UNDERSTAND THE SIX NEEDS OF MOURNING
• 12. - UNDERSTAND THE SIX NEEDS OF MOURNING
• 13. - UNDERSTAND THE SIX NEEDS OF MOURNING
• 14. - UNDERSTAND THE SIX NEEDS OF MOURNING
• 15. - UNDERSTAND THE SIX NEEDS OF MOURNING
• 16. - UNDERSTAND THE SIX NEEDS OF MOURNING
• 17. - KNOW THAT GRIEF DOES NOT PROCEED IN ORDERLY, PREDICTABLE “STAGES.”
• 18. - UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT OF RECONCILIATION.
• 19. - KNOW THAT YOUR WORKPLACE IS FOREVER CHANGED.
• 20. - LOOK FOR GROWTH IN GRIEF.
• WHEN SOMEONE YOU CARE ABOUT DIES
• WHEN YOU WANT TO HELP SOMEONE WHO’S GRIEVING
• WHEN THE WORKPLACE IS AFFECTED BY TRAUMATIC DEATH
• A FINAL WORD
• MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT GRIEF AT WORK
• THE MOURNER’S CODE
• SEND US YOUR IDEAS FOR HEALING GRIEF AT WORK!
• ALSO BY ALAN WOLFELT