Trip Overview

From Rachel Bridgewater, MA ‘10…

My professor and supervisor, Dr. Lori Russell-Chapin and I have been collaborating on qualitative research of grief and loss for over a year now.  Last summer, we submitted a proposal to the ACA titled Telling Your Grief Story: Bereavement Interventions that Heal the Loss.  To our surprise, we were one out of only twenty pieces selected for a full-day workshop.  It’s actually a pretty big deal… especially for me, since I’ve never conducted a full workshop before!

I will be presenting to a group of counseling professionals who likely have tens times more experience than I do.  Actually, I’ve never attended an ACA conference, so you will be learning just as much about it as I will.  I have heard that there are more fascinating things to do and learn than I could possibly hope to jam into one weekend… not to mention the interesting people I will meet.  So I am extremely excited, albeit a little nervous. The opportunity to attend the conference is exhilarating enough to get my gumption going and put a muffle on the butterflies in my stomach!

I’ll do my best to describe my experience over the next several days while giving you my honest and investigative perspective.  Until next time…