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Our grief and loss counseling specialization is an excellent choice for students who want to bolster their trauma and crisis response with additional helping skills pertaining to grief, loss, and recovery. Made up of three courses, our grief and loss counseling specialization covers topics such as helping parents grapple with the death of a child, grieving infertility, helping children grieve through a divorce, and much more.
Crisis Response & Trauma Care for Grief & Loss
Certification
Life Recovery Coaching 101, 201 & 301
36 CE Credits • IBCC Certification
total cost is $951.00 with fees
Grief and Loss Certification includes:
Digital Text Book
Certificate of completion
36 CEU Credits
Industry Leading Instruction
36 Course Modules
Course Lessons and Descriptions
Life Recovery Coaching 101
Course Description
This course is designed to introduce people to the 12 Steps of Life Recovery. These steps are foundational in helping people move from a life of addiction and pain to a life of freedom and wholeness. Counselors will learn how to help clients undergo the powerful profess of life recovery.
Presenters
Stephen Arterburn, M.A. and David Stoop, Ph.D.
Course Lessons
LRC 101: Step One—Admitting Powerlessness and the Unmanageability of the Problem
This session introduces the first step: Awareness. Awareness involves an important paradox that involves the admission of one’s powerlessness to find strength. Although one may be powerless over addiction, he or she is not helpless. Coaches have a unique opportunity to raise an individual’s awareness and acceptance of the unmanageability in his or her life as a result of the addiction.
LRC 102: Step Two—The Role of Faith in the Restoration of Sanity
Step two involves three different levels that ultimately lead to a spiritual journey. Coaches have the unique opportunity to start individuals on their spiritual journeys as the requirement of faith in this step results in hope and experiencing God as the highest power.
LRC 103: Step Three—The Decision and Willingness to Surrender
The third step in recovery requires a willingness to surrender through action. The decision to surrender involves one’s will and life. Through the process of surrender, a person may have to redefine who God is in his or her life.
LRC 104: Step Four—Life Assessment: A Fearless Moral Inventory
Step four encompasses reality and self-evaluation. It involves looking realistically, in truth and understanding, at personal shortcomings. In doing so, one must be honest, unselfish, pure, and loving.
LRC 105: Step Five—Admitting One’s Wrongs
This session introduces step five while providing a biblically sound understanding and model of how to confess to others. Many people do not believe their behavior affects others, but it does. Actions can hurt others, our relationship with God and ourselves.
LRC 106: Step Six—Allowing God to Remove Character Defects
Step six introduces the willingness for change. In this step, one combines faith and insight to develop the readiness for change. This readiness is a humbling before God. Although many people want lasting change, relapse is a harsh reality. It is important to educate those in recovery on the basic components and initial stages of relapse.
LRC 107: Step Seven—Removing Inadequacies: The Humble Request
This session overviews the seventh step in the recovery model, and explains the foundations for the twelve steps while overviewing the steps that have been covered up to this point. The maturing and the building of character is an important characteristic of the seventh step as one is humbly asking God to remove his or her shortcomings.
LRC 108: Step Eight—Making the List
Step eight involves composing a list of all those who have been affected by one’s actions. This step can develop a brokenness that heals and releases one from the chains and shame of his or her past. This is a vital step to the person’s freedom.
LRC 109: Step Nine—Making Appropriate Amends
Step nine involves the action of making amends with those that have been impacted by one’s actions. During this step, the major obstacle involves avoiding the human tendency to rationalize and become defensive.
LRC 110: Step Ten—Continuing the Personal Inventory
This session introduces step ten. In this step, one is called to persevere and stay the course. As a lifelong process, recovery requires that an individual is consistently aware of what each step entails as he or she continually does them. During this step of perseverance, preservation becomes an important component of the recovery process.
LRC 111: Step Eleven—A New Level of Intimacy
Step eleven focuses on one’s intimate relationship with God. Throughout the previous ten steps, one has been progressing through inventories, confessions, making amends, and letting others see what is inside of him or her. This session will discuss the importance of the Serenity Prayer and its individual components that are particularly pivotal throughout the healing and recovery process.
LRC 112: Step Twelve—Living and Relaying the Message
In this final session, step twelve is introduced. Step twelve involves helping others because one has been helped. The coach is not only helping an individual in terms of his or her temporal life, but the coach is also helping the individual in terms of his or her eternal life. This is the joy of coaching as coaches are in service to others.
Life Recovery Coaching 201
Course Description
This course is designed to introduce people to the 12 Laws of Life Recovery. These irrefutable laws go beyond the 12-Steps and introduce some new words and profoundly biblical concepts that will shed new light on the distinctives of Christian recovery. They also point to the evidence of recovery: the fruit of adhering to these requirements, that without them, recovery is incomplete.
Presenters
Stephen Arterburn, M.A. and David Stoop, Ph.D.
Course Lessons
LRC 201: Law One – Powerlessness
Laws are a part of human existence, whether through laws of nature, biblical laws, or modern civil laws. We live by laws. When entering the recovery of addiction process, clients need to understand how laws apply to restoration. Using the 12-steps as a model, presenters Stoop and Arterburn discuss how laws apply to recovery.
LRC 202: Law Two—Humility
In this presentation, Stephen Arterburn discusses the second law of life recovery: humility. He describes it as a requirement to the second step, which bears the outcome of honor – something all individuals desire in life.
LRC 203: Law Three—Connection
Connection is a vital part of life itself. When we fail to connect, we lose at so many areas in life, particularly relationships. Stoop and Arterburn explore and describe the importance of connection and how individuals can overcome the struggle to connect.
LRC 204: Law Four—Willingness
In this presentation, Steve Arterburn continues his discussion of the twelve laws with law four, the law of willingness. Being willing involves being open to change. Unfortunately, a person may only become willing after a tragedy or hitting “rock bottom.”
LRC 205: Law Five— Confession
The Law of Confession is the fifth law in the Twelve Laws of Life Recovery. Dr. David Stoop discusses the importance of confession to God and other believers. Dr. Stoop defines healthy confession and provides examples of how, when and to whom to confess one’s sins. Biblical examples of confession will be provided, as well as the health and relational benefits of confession.
LRC 206: Law Six—Faith
The sixth law of Life Recovery is the Law of Faith. The result of faith is hope and in having both, we will not suffer from disappointment on the road to recovery. Distinguishing between trials and temptation is a key element to growing in faith.
LRC 207: Law Seven—Surrender
The seventh step in finding life recovery is surrender. The requirement of surrender will always result in victory. The requirement necessary is to give up your own will and surrender to God’s will. This is vital in addictions recovery.
LRC 208: Law Eight—Service
The eighth law in the Twelve Laws of Recovery is the Law of Service. In this session, Dr. David Stoop and Stephen Arterburn discuss service to others and a life on mission. A definition and examples of service will be provided, as well as practical tips for those going through recovery to heal and serve.
LRC 209: Law Nine—Forgiveness
When we do not forgive others or ourselves, there are a lot of physiological, emotional, and spiritual problems that could stem for holding onto bitterness. The presenters will discuss misconceptions about forgiveness; such as forgiveness must be quick, it condones evil, and that one must forget about the wrong done.
LRC 210: Law Ten—Restitution
Restitution is the act of repaying someone for how you have wronged them in the past. This behavior has many benefits for one’s life. However, we are taught in the Bible to seek restitution. The presenters help learners understand the importance of restitution, both to God and to others.
LRC 211: Law Eleven—Sacrifice
Sacrifice is about giving up what you have irreverently valued and giving that area back to God and others. We should not expect anything in return for sacrifice, but should be moved to freely give. Dr. Stoop and Steve Arterburn help learners understand the importance of sacrifice in order to find fulfillment and turn from addiction.
LRC 212: Law Twelve—Responsibility
The final installment to the 12 Laws, the vitally important law of responsibility is discussed by Dr. Stoop and Steve Arterburn. Responsibility is not a burden, it is a safety you can provide yourself with to guard addictions and pain from determining your life’s trajectory.
Life Recovery Coaching 301
Course Description
Together with the 12 Steps and 12 Laws, Life Recovery 301 provides the ideal companion course for a comprehensive training program. The 12 Gifts of Life Recovery describes how to take clients beyond sobriety and direct them to pursue exceptional lives that are rich and full of God’s gifts. By integrating recovery principles into every facet of life, counselors and caregivers can better understand the biblical path to authentic transformation. This comprehensive course is a fantastic resource for coaches, counselors, and pastors alike!
LRC 301: The Gift of Hope
LRC 302: The Gift of Power
LRC 303: The Gift of Character
LRC 304: The Gift of Clarity
LRC 305: The Gift of Security
LRC 306: The Gift of Abundance
LRC 307: The Gift of Wisdom
LRC 308: The Gift of Self-Control
LRC 309: The Gift of Courage
LRC 310: The Gift of Happiness
LRC 311: The Gift of Serenity
LRC 312: The Gift of Peace
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Industry Leading Faculty
Catherine Hart Weber, Ph.D.
JOHNNY PARKER, D.S.L.
JENNIFER ELLERS, M.A.
MARK CREAR, Ph.D.
Ted Cunningham, M.A.C.E.
Georgia Shaffer, M.A.
Valorie Burton, MAPP
SYLVIA HART FREJD, D.Min.
Tim Clinton, Ed.D.
Ben Allison, Esq., MBA
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Crisis Response & Trauma Care for Grief & Loss Certification with Specialized Training
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Frequently Asked Questions about Light’s Trauma and Crisis Intervention Training
What does it mean to be a trauma-informed coach?
Trauma-informed coaches are knowledgeable about the tell-tale signs of trauma but are not qualified to treat trauma. In fact, tasking someone who is not a licensed professional with treating trauma could result in the re-traumatization of a client.
Trauma-informed coaching is a skill that entails being able to recognize the signs of trauma, deftly bringing the client to a place of mental stability and referring the person to a licensed professional who is able to treat the trauma.
What is the difference between a coach and a therapist?
There are several differences between a coach and a therapist, though the most notable distinction is that therapists are licensed professionals while coaches are not. As such, the treatment strategies of therapists differ from those used by coaches.
While therapists often seek to help their clients recover from mental illness. Areas of treatment for therapists include, but are not limited to:
- Addictions
- Anxiety
- Bipolar disorder
- Clinical depression
- Trauma
On the other hand, coaches do not seek to help their clients recover from mental illness. Instead, coaches focus more on the development of positive thinking patterns.
What certifications do you need to become a trauma-informed coach?
Though the coaching niche is unregulated, no certifications are needed to become a coach, proper training is strongly advised. Think about it – you wouldn’t want to learn baseball from someone who never played, would you?
If you’d like to become a trauma-informed coach who can confidently identify signs of trauma and refer people to the correct licensed professional, Light’s online crisis response and trauma-informed care certification program is an excellent fit. With training that covers topics ranging from how children react to crises, anxiety and depression, and trauma attachment theory, our trauma-informed certification doesn’t just benefit you – it benefits those you serve.
Can life coaches treat trauma?
Life coaches cannot, and should not try, to treat trauma. Coaches who attempt to treat trauma may re-traumatize their clients and further agitate deep emotional wounds. Trauma treatment is reserved for licensed mental health professionals alone.
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