Frontline workers experience loss on a regular basis in their careers. This loss is often tragic, deeply felt and leaves profound grief. Yet, professionally we are expected to keep moving and continue helping. Overtime, this can impact workers mental health, physical health and develop into compassion fatigue. This workshop will be a brief overview of grief and loss from a trauma-informed lens. The goal is to help you reframe your experiences of loss at work. This will help you understand your professional losses, the impacts and how to support yourself and others while you grieve.
Presenter:
Krista Osborne is a Registered Clinical Social Worker, and an Assistant Professor with the University of Calgary, Faculty of Social Work where she focuses on clinical teaching and trauma informed practice. She also has a small private practice working as a mental health therapist in the area of grief, loss, and trauma recovery.
Krista Osborne was born to Donna and Frank Wright on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak and Attawandaron in London, Ontario. She was raised from a young age with her 2 brothers on Treaty 6 territory in St. Albert originally known to the Metis people as the Payhonin Valley. She has raised her children in the same place that she grew up. Krista is the mother of 2 emerging adults and been married to her partner for 22 years.