This webinar explores the application of narrative therapy in grief work, focusing on how clients can reconstruct identity and meaning following significant loss. Presented by Dr. Paul M. Martin, the session will examine how bereavement can disrupt core aspects of self and personal narrative. Drawing on contemporary research in personality psychology, the webinar will also highlight how individual differences—particularly traits such as neuroticism, conscientiousness, and other dimensions of the Big Five—can influence the grieving process. Through clinical illustrations and interactive techniques, participants will learn how to support clients in re-authoring their narratives to foster resilience, growth, and renewed purpose. Attendees will leave with practical tools to help clients navigate identity shifts and engage in adaptive meaning-making in the aftermath of grief.

Learning Outcomes

• Identify how grief and loss can disrupt core aspects of identity and self-narrative, and understand the role of narrative therapy in facilitating psychological integration after bereavement.
• Examine the influence of individual personality traits—such as neuroticism, conscientiousness, and other Big Five dimensions—on the grieving process and therapeutic engagement.
• Apply narrative therapy techniques to help clients re-author their life stories in ways that promote resilience, adaptation, and the reconstruction of meaning following loss.

Venue: Live Webinar (Includes access to video recording for 60 days).

Date: Saturday, 27th September, 2025

Time: 11:00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. (Sydney/Melbourne Time)

Cost: 89.00

CPD certificate: 2 Hours. CPD certificates are issued to attendees who meet one of the following criteria: attend the live webinar with at least 80% attendance, or watch the webinar recording and complete the associated assessment component.

About Dr Paul Martin: Paul M. Martin, Psy.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and the assistant director of The Center for Grief Recovery. He specializes in individual psychotherapy for those struggling with loss and grief and regularly offers continuing education workshops and case consultation for professionals working with complicated cases of bereavement. He also provides psychological debriefing in workplace settings that have experienced a death amidst their workforce and is sought after as an expert witness in litigation involving sudden and traumatic loss. Dr. Martin is an adjunct faculty member at both Northwestern University and The Chicago School of Professional Psychology where he teaches psychology coursework on psychopathology, psychodynamic theory and intervention, developmental psychology, and the psychology of loss, grief, and mourning. Dr. Martin is the author of Personal Grief Rituals: Creating Unique Expressions of Loss and Meaningful Acts of Mourning.

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