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Grief & Providing Care
​During a Pandemic

Caring for Others & Ourselves

  • How to Ask if Everything Is OK When It's Clearly Not
  • Coping & Caring for Oneself During COVID-19
  • 10 Guidelines for Pastoral Care During the Coronavirus Outbreak
  • Providing Spiritual & Pastoral Care During COVID-19 (on-demand webinar)
  • Your Friend Is Grieving
  • How to Develop & Manage Virtual Grief Support Groups (on-demand webinar)
  • How to Cope with Bereavement During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • Offering Hope & Help 
  • Offering Sympathy from a Distance in the Time of Coronavirus
  • Grieving from a Distance​
  • How to Find Balance in the Midst of Crisis
  • When We Need Holy Friendships Most
  • ​Sleep Guidelines During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • Dealing with Uncertainty During the Coronavirus Pandemic
  • Getting Good at Waiting​

Clergy Burnout & Self-Care

  • Coping & Caring for Oneself During COVID-19: Practical Steps for Pastors & Christian Leaders
  • Improve Your Wellbeing (downloadable WorkWell app)
  • 11 Self-care Reminders for Clergy & Other Caregivers
  • Anticipating the Psychological Impact of COVID (on-demand webinar)
  • ​​​Clergy Self-Care During a Pandemic
  • ​Self-Care for Church Leaders During COVID-19
  • Self-ish Care, Self-Care & Soul Care: What's the Difference?
  • ​With COVID-19, Proactive Self-Care More Essential for Ministers
  • Resisting Busyness in the Time of COVID-19
  • The Challenge of Clergy Isolation During COVID-19 Days
  • Gaining Perspective & Recognizing Burnout
  • 8 Tips for Pastors Stuggling with Burnout
  • 4 Practices to Help Prevent Clergy Burnout
  • Many Pastors Are Tired, Overwhelmed & Lonely
  • The Coming Pastoral Crash
  • Flourishing in Ministry: Emerging Research Insights on the Well-Being of Pastors
  • A Spiritual Model for Recovery of Pastors Suffering Burnout
  • Causes of Burnout Among Church Leaders

Updates on Ministry During COVID-19

  • Deciding when & how you should return to church in person (a practical guide for church members)
  • Should I be attending worship services at my church? (a decision tree)
  • Ready to go back to church? 10 things to consider before heading to worship​
  • As they reopen, congregations grapple with including seniors​​

Understanding Grief During a Pandemic

  • Understanding Grief in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • Grief and COVID-19: Mourning Our Bygone Lives
  • Disenfranchised Grief & COVID-19 (on-demand webinar)
  • All the Things We Have to Mourn Now​
  • The Pandemic Will Pass. Our Grief Will Endure.
  • That Discomfort That You're Feeling Is Grief
  • Spare a Moment for Sorrow
  • Relearning Ways to Grieve
  • It’s Time to Face the Collective Grief of COVID-19
  • ​Grief & COVID-19​

Considering Funerals & Graveside Services

  • Months into COVID-19, Funeral Directors & Clergy Continue to Innovate Death Care
  • What Can We Do If a Funeral Is Not Possible
  • I Officiated a Zoom Funeral. Here's What I Didn't Expect.
  • Guide for Christian Funerals During COVID-19
  • Making Funerals Meaningful in the Age of COVID-19 (on-demand webinar)
  • How Can We Mourn Properly Over Zoom?
  • Death, Grief & Funerals in a Time of Social Distancing
  • How Coronavirus Is Changing the Ways We Grieve & Mourn the Dead
  • Responsive Prayer for Online Funeral

Approaching Grief in Different Ways

  • Disenfranchised Grief & COVID-19 (recorded webinar)
  • ​Therapeutic Response to Trauma & Loss in the COVID-19 Pandemic (on-demand webinar)
  • The Four Tasks of Grieving (Warden)
  • The Dual Process for Coping with Grief (Stroebe & Schut)
  • Two Styles of Grieving (Doka & Martin)
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