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"A
promise and a guarantee accompanies all my
presentations. If 95% of
those attending are not satisfied with the
presentation, I will refund 100%
of my speaker fee to the sponsoring
organization."
LAW
ENFORCEMENT LECTURES: Please click here
for presentation
information that applies only to law enforcement.
FOR ALL OTHER
PRESENTATIONS:
A.
DO YOU KNOW:
● A
fail-safe solution
when you don't know what to say to grieving people?
● The
single, most
therapeutic event of all our death rituals?
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The five-step process for viewing "unviewable" bodies that assures that
survivors won't have that sight as their
last visual memory of their loved one?
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How a glove can help a young child understand the concept of death?
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Which specific informational errors well-intended caregivers make that
cause many grieving survivors to feel
that their grief has made them "crazy"?
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How a simple shoe box can help meet the needs of grieving children and
their teachers?
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What common mistakes we make with grieving people that are almost
guaranteed to make them feel angry?
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In what ways the Kubler-Ross five-stages-of-grief model is deficient
and why it does not apply to sudden
death?
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According to Harvard Medical School, which two front line professional
caregiver groups actually have the most
difficulty coping with death?
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Why 31% of people receiving counseling are in therapy due to unresolved
grief from previous deaths, some that
occurred decades in the past?
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What the three types of tears are and how swallowing one kind can
adversely impact your physical health?
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How long it takes to achieve grief resolution, which differs markedly
according to the manner of death?
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What the four "gifts of grief" are?
●
How meeting certain immediate grief needs can alleviate the frequency
of grief-driven lawsuits against law
enforcement, hospitals and nursing homes?
B.
TESTIMONIALS:
"Franne
better not die before
she writes all this information in a book." United
States
Attorney
"I always felt inadequately prepared to deal
with hysterical
survivors at death scenes. Not anymore." EMT
"The
value
of my assistance to victim-survivors just increased dramatically" Victim Advocate
"If
only our
teachers had known all this when a favorite teacher in our school was
murdered." School
Principal
"I was
thinking, ho-hum, another
death and grief workshop. Boy, was I ever wrong." Registered
Nurse
"I
learned more in this presentation
than I knew after 35 years in the funeral business." Funeral Director
"This should
be
heard by anyone who will ever grieve or die - and that's everybody." Cemetarian
"A wonderful blend of laughter
and gut-wrenching emotion." Chaplain
"Why, oh why, don't doctors and
clergy know this?" Hospital
Administrator
"Invaluable
information." Emergency Department
Physician
"I
enjoyed this session above
all others at this conference." Nursing
Home Administrator
C.
PRESENTATIONS FOR:
Attorneys, clergy,
cemetarians, educators, fire and rescue, funeral directors, judges, law
enforcement, long term care personnel, medical examiners, memorialists,
mental health personnel, nurses, physicians, victim advocates.
D.
PAST PRESENTATION LOCATIONS: Alabama,
Arkansas,
Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota,
Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico,
New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Tennessee,
Texas, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia.
Via the Emergency Education Network, to viewers in Chile, Canada,
Mexico, Ethiopia, the Caribbean Basin, the South Pacific, Israel,
Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand,
the Antarctic, Crete, Greece, Bahrain, Spain, Bermuda, Argentina,
Midway, Guam and the Philippines.
E.
MODEL: Workshops:
Participatory and didactic.
Lectures:
Didactic.
TIMES:
Workshops: 9:00a - 4:00p;
Lunch:12:00p -1:00p; Breaks:10:30a and
2:30p. Workshop times can be earlier, with corresponding breaks and
lunch.
Lectures: From
90 minutes to
four hours. Due
to the subject matter and if it doesn't interfere with your
requirements, please schedule lectures early in your program and in the
morning. If
that's not convenient, feel free to schedule according
to your needs.
F.
OBJECTIVES: At the conclusion of the presentation, participants will:
1.
Be knowledgeable in how drastically grief differs according to the
manner of death.
2.
Acquire valuable information regarding a new grief paradigm resulting
from presenter's personal research and
experience.
3.
Be more capable of identifying and meeting the needs of the bereaved.
4.
Recognize the limitations inherent in the traditional
five-stages-of-grieving process.
5.
Be better able to deal with any manner of death both personally and
professionally.
6.
Learn self-care techniques to help alleviate death
saturation.
G. SPEAKER
FEE AND BOOKING INFORMATION:
●
Presentation dates may
be booked up to two years in advance.
●
Dates are reserved for up to ten working days before payment and
confirmed upon receipt of full payment.
●
Discounts are available for multiple presentations. Feel free to bundle
your presentation with other organizations
or states. The discount is available as
long as the
combined presentations take place during the same trip and
the total fee is prepaid from one source.
●
Payment may be made by check, money order, credit care via PayPal (add
3% for credit card payment) or, for
federal presentations only, by purchase
order.
● Because
of the variables that
apply to the fee structure, please click here
to e-mail
Franne with your
inquiries regarding
fees.and speaker availability.
H. MISCELLANEOUS
INFORMATION:
1. Audience requirement:
Twenty
minimum, no maximum.
2. CEU's:
Workshop: 5.5 contact
hours. Four-hour lecture: 3.45 contact hours.
3. Presentation details
and handout
printing masters: Sent upon
receipt of fee.
4. Presenter's
biographical information:
Please click on About Franne
tab on website menu.
5. Invoice:
A separate invoice will
not be sent, unless requested.
6. Contract:
Payment constitutes
presenter/sponsor agreement to terms listed herein.
I.
AIR TRAVEL:
Departure:
From Burlington, Vermont.
If travel is the day before the presentation(s), please book an early
morning flight, even if it means a substantial layover at a connecting
airport.
Itinerary:
Please advise speaker of
itinerary before booking flights.
Aircraft Seating:
Please book aisle
forward assigned seats on each leg of itinerary.
Airline Ticket:
Please send prepaid
electronic ticket to legacyhill@pshift.com.
Ground Transportation:
Please advise
speaker means of transportation to hotel and/or presentation location.
J. DRIVING: There is a flat
rate
travel charge, depending on the distance driven.
K.
ACCOMMODATIONS:
Room:
Please book a non-smoking room
away from elevators and service areas, if possible.
Registration:
In name of Nelson (not
Whitney).
Meals:
Charged to room, except for
those meals provided at the presentation.
Payment:
Direct payment by
sponsoring organization.
Hotel Information:
Please advise
speaker of the name, address and phone number of the hotel, as well as
the reservation confirmation number.
L.
FOR SPONSOR PROMOTIONAL INFORMATION, PLEASE:
●
Be
sure to include some of the "Do You Know" questions in your promotional
material. It always
increases
attendance.
●
For
workshops, ask
your registrants to bring four one-dollar bills - the secret reason is
revealed during the
presentation.
●
Advise them that dress is casual and to bring a light
sweater or jacket for comfort if it's air conditioning season.
●
The workshop title is "A Workshop For Life: Dealing With Expected,
Sudden and Sudden,
Unexpected Death".
The lecture is titled "A Lecture For
Life: Dealing
With Expected, Sudden and Sudden,
Unexpected Death".
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"A promise
and a guarantee accompanies all my presentations. If 95% of those
attending are not satisfied with the presentation, I will refund 100%
of my speaker fee to the sponsoring organization.
INFORMATION
ON THIS PAGE IS SPECIFIC TO JUST LAW ENFORCEMENT
A. DO YOU
KNOW:
●
Which
involuntary, chemically-driven death notification reaction can alert
you to the fact that you may have actually
notified a perpetrator rather than a
victim?
●
How meeting
certain immediate grief needs of survivors can alleviate the frequency
of family complaints or
lawsuits
that have nothing to do with your competence and professionalism, but
are actually grief-driven?
●
What Death
Memory Rectification(TM) is and
how it can influence your decisions regarding family requests to
view
traumatized bodies of their loved ones?
●
The
physiological reason why law enforcement officers use what is commonly
referred to as "morbid humor" on the job?
●
Ways to
prevent your spouse from feeling excluded because of your job without
going into details of what you
see and do while you're working?
●
Why many
survivor-victims of sudden, unexpected death are often so insistent on
getting certain death details
that you might consider gruesome but
that are actually important to their mental health?
●
The single
body-viewing circumstance that can cause long-lasting secondary trauma
for survivors and why using photographs
in this one type of case has the more favorable outcome?
●
Why "I've
got bad news" is probably the worst way to begin a death notification?
●
How to
handle a death notification when family members arrive on-scene?
●
The one
circumstance whereby you delay making a notification after a family
member has opened the door to
your knock?
●
Some
self-care techniques to help you cope with grief on and off the job?
●
One of the
most comforting things you can do on-scene for a family when a child
dies?
●
How to
lessen the shock for the family when returning personal belongings of a
dead loved one?
●
Ways to
deal with families who insist that a suicide is actually a homicide?
●
Specifically
why some death notifications have degenerated into arrests, due to a
lack of death notification
training?
●
How making
death notifications in the home, at work and in hospital emergency
departments differs?
●
How many
stages there are to a death notifications reaction and how this
information can determine what to do
during each stage?
●
How to make
a graceful exit from the home after a notification?
●
What to do
when families insist on seeing photographs of particularly gruesome
scenes?
B.
TESTIMONIAL QUOTES: Law Enforcement:
"I
worked all night last night and didn't
think about being tired for one second - time flew by." Police Chief
"The biology of the "eruption reaction" after a death notification was
new and most interesting." FBI Agent
"I
absolutely recommend this training - we generally do a terrible job
with death notifications." Trooper
"Great, eye-opening information." Patrol
Commander
"I wish I'd had this training 30 years ago." Sheriff
"Who would have thought there would be so many laughs in a lecture on
death?" Secret Service Agent
"This lady knows her stuff. She's not touchy-feely and she's certainly
not boring." Lieutenant
"This training should be mandatory for all departments." Captain
"My attention never wandered - I was riveted." Field
Force Major
"This information should be part of every police academy
training." Sergeant
C.
PAST GENERAL PRESENTATION LOCATIONS: Alabama,
Arkansas, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts,
Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New
Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota,
Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia.
Via the Emergency
Education
Network, to viewers in Chile, Canada, Mexico, Ethiopia, the Caribbean
Basin, the South Pacific, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, the United
Kingdom, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, the Antarctic, Crete, Greece,
Bahrain, Spain, Bermuda, Argentina, Midway, Guam and the Philippines.
D.
MODEL: Lectures:
Didactic
E.
TIMES: Four hours. Due
to the subject matter and if it doesn't interfere with your
requirements, please schedule lectures early in your program and in the
morning. If that's not convenient, feel free to schedule according to
your needs.
F.
OBJECTIVES: At the conclusion of the presentation, participants will:
1. Dramatically reduce
the discomfort that preceds a death notification.
2. Learn the five elements necessary to assure that family members will
not be retraumatized by viewing a
supposedly
"unviewable" body.
3. Be more capable of identifying and meeting the immediate grief needs
of survivor-victims.
4. Be knowledgeable in how drastically grief differs according to the
manner of death.
5. Be better able to deal with any manner of death both personally and
professionally.
6. Learn self-care techniques to help alleviate death
saturation.
G. SPEAKER
FEE AND BOOKING INFORMATION:
●
Presentation
dates may be booked up to two years in advance.
●
Discounts
are available for multiple presentations. Feel free to bundle your
presentation with other organizations or
states. The discount is available as long as the combined presentations
take place during the same trip and
the total fee is prepaid from one source.
●
Payment may
be made by check, money order, or, for federal presentations
only,
by purchase
order.
●
Dates are reserved for up to ten working days before payment and
confirmed upon receipt of full payment.
●
Because
of the variables that apply to the fee structure, please click here
to
e-mail Franne with your
inquiries
regarding fees and speaker availability.
H.
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION:
1.
Audience
requirement: No
maximum.
2. CEU's:
Four-hour lecture: 3.45 contact hours.
3.
Presenter's
biographical information: Please
click on About Franne
tab on website menu.
4. Invoice:
A separate invoice will not be sent, unless requested.
5. Presentation
details and handout printing masters: Sent
upon receipt of fee.
6. Contract:
Payment constitutes presenter/sponsor agreement to terms listed herein.
I.
SPONSOR PROMOTIONAL INFORMATION, PLEASE:
●
Be sure to
include some of the "Do You Know" questions in your promotional
material. It always increases
attendance.
●The
lecture is titled "A Lecture For Life: Dealing With Death And
Grief In Law Enforcement".
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