Thu, Sep 19
|Hirst Auditorium, 1st Floor Dulles Bldg.
Annual Anastasia Lyalenko Memorial Lecture
Learning the Language of Loss - Supporting, Sustaining, and Connecting
Time & Location
Sep 19, 2024, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Hirst Auditorium, 1st Floor Dulles Bldg., Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
About the Event
Myra Sack, Author of Fifty-Seven Fridays, Founder & Executive Director, E-Motion, Inc.
An interactive, dynamic, and intimate experience that includes a combination of lecture, individual reflection, and gently guided discussion questions resulting in:
- An enhanced understanding of loss.
- Practical and accessible language and tools for supporting yourself and others.
- Strategies that will enhance coping capacities.
- A shared sense of community, gratitude, and inspiration.
The lecture includes my orientation toward grief, an exploration of bereavement-science and spirituality, and a deep devotion to grief literacy. You will have a front-row seat to extraordinary love and extraordinary grief, from my daughter Havi's fatal Tay-Sachs diagnosis through her death, and in the first year after she dies. My story, and this conversation, will gently lead us to reimagine grief.