The 2026 Grief Summit
April 15-16, 2026

Featuring Lara Krawchuk

The Grief Summit brings together leading experts in grief and loss to share the latest evidence-based approaches in grief therapy. Accessible from anywhere, the summit features interactive sessions, live Q&A, and a wealth of resources, giving participants practical tools and insights to support their clients.

Lara Krawchuk, MSW, LCSW, MPH, will be a featured speaker, guiding attendees through cutting-edge strategies and compassionate approaches to working with grief. Topics will include the impact of AI on grief, the newest research on love and loss, addressing survivor’s guilt, somatic and IFS therapy techniques, and supporting clients experiencing estrangement.

IFS Therapy for Grief and Loss

1-Day Digital Workshop

Grief is complex. It touches protective parts, tender parts, and often parts that feel overwhelmed or stuck. In this comprehensive digital seminar, you’ll learn how to integrate Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy into grief work using a trauma-informed, non-pathologizing lens.

This experiential and clinically grounded workshop is designed to help you confidently support clients navigating death loss, ambiguous loss, living loss, caregiving stress, and complex grief responses.

What You’ll Learn

• How to apply the IFS model to grief and loss treatment

• Ways to identify and work with protective and exiled grief parts

• Strategies for pacing trauma-sensitive grief work

• How to support meaning reconstruction without pathologizing normal grief

• Practical clinical interventions you can use immediately

You’ll leave with a deeper understanding of self-led healing and a framework for working with grief that honors both suffering and resilience.

Who This Is For

This training is ideal for:

• Therapists

• Social workers

• Counselors

• Psychologists

• Helping professionals supporting clients through grief and loss
  
  

Access the Digital Seminar

This workshop is available through PESI as a digital training you can complete at your own pace.

Caring Ministries Symposium: The Universal Experience of Loss & Grief

Saturday, March 7 | 9:00 a.m. | Congregational Hall at the Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church

Grief touches every life—through personal loss, communal pain, or anticipatory experiences. Emilee Duckworth, MSW, LCSW, joined a panel of experts to explore how grief shapes our inner lives, relationships, and communities.

The event included a screening of the award-winning documentary Voices of Grief: Honoring the Sacred Journey, followed by a thoughtful panel discussion and Q&A. Attendees were offered a compassionate space to listen, learn, and share—whether navigating grief personally, supporting someone else, or seeking deeper understanding.

Emilee is available for future speaking engagements and panel discussions to bring this meaningful conversation to other communities.