Event Phone: 608-775-4747

Presenter: Ann Tyndall, MDiv, BCC, CPLC Bereavement Coordinator, Gundersen Health System

Ann served as a Unitarian Universalist parish minister for 23 years before training to become a healthcare chaplain. She was drawn to working with people from diverse spiritual traditions, including those who did not identify as religious. The role of chaplain—not promoting a particular religious tradition—fit Ann’s inclusive approach to spirituality. She worked for a year as an affiliate chaplain at Chicago Children’s Hospital before accepting a position as staff chaplain at Gundersen Health System in La Crosse, WI. There, Ann’s duties included providing bereavement support for patients and families. Though she attended deaths at any age, her primary responsibility was caring for families experiencing perinatal loss. In June 2019, Ann accepted the position of Bereavement Coordinator for Gundersen Health System. Ann’s role at Gundersen is vital to Resolve Through Sharing’s long history of developing programming at home and disseminating to its national audience, and gleaning expertise from healthcare professionals across the country to incorporate at home.

Topic: Guided Participation, co-creating ritual, and ambiguous loss

“Ambiguous Loss” is a term coined by Dr Pauline Boss who identified a kind of grief that arises from situations in which the loss is ambiguous:  The body is missing but the person remains psychologically present, as in a soldier missing in action.  Or, the body is present but the person is psychologically absent, such as a parent lost to Alzheimer’s.  These kinds of loss are traumatic because they cannot be resolved, and they often go unacknowledged within society, thus leaving the bereaved person disenfranchised.  Tyndall will present two esteemed elements of RTS standard of care, Guided Participation and co-created ritual as useful ways to work with those suffering from ambiguous loss.

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