Faces of Grief

                      Whispers of Love

This workshop is designed for anyone who has lost a loved one in their life, anytime in their life,  for all ages and manners of death. Also recommended for professionals, clergy, caregivers, family and friends of the bereaved. Grief is the great leveler.

This workshop consists of two parts. The first half is interactive using 20 portraits of emotional components of the grief journey ( see portraits on Faces of Grief Page on this website).  To explore you own grief journey  in a way that is not  expressed in a linear progression of stages  as commonly thought but through the  plethora of emotions in grief that can come and go the rest of our lives. These will be explored as well as discussing ways to embrace your grief proactively and find methods to reclaim joy again.

The second half will attempt to identify experiences that validate that there is life after death. Although our loved ones may have died, there is now a preponderance of mounting evidence that support the fact that their soul and personality survives death in another realm of existence.

Although they are gone from our arms forever, we can through faith and keen perception find many ways that our love ones whom have died let us know that they are near. A power point presentation will provide dramatic evidence of signs from our loved ones who have passed. 

See examples on Validations page on this website                                                                        -Mitch Carmody

Mitch Carmody 2009 Bio

Mitch is the author of the wide selling book “Letters To My Son, a journey through grief” which has been sold worldwide and every state in the nation. Published in 2002 it is now in its 2^nd printing.  Mitch is currently a staff writer with “Living with Loss Magazine” and has published articles and essays for many national grief periodicals, newsletters, and internet sites as well as appearing in many radio and Television interviews. He Counsels the bereaved daily from his website.

Mitch is a recognized keynote speaker and a highly regarded workshop presenter with a wide variety of compelling workshops. He is routinely sought after by The Compassionate Friends, Bereaved Parents USA as a workshop presenter or speaker at their national conferences. He writes and speaks from the heart and touches many lives with his compassionate message and affable manner. In his workshop “Whispers of Love” he has brought hope to countless thousands who believe their loved ones spirit survives death.

 In his remarkable workshop “The Faces of Grief” he breaks down current myths in the bereavement process, and embraces a unique, more humanistic approach in recovering from loss which he has coined as “Proactive Grieving turning loss to legacy”.  Also a gifted portrait artist he has created powerful images in pencil that he uses in this workshop to illustrate the many emotions involved in grieving the loss of a loved one.  He also creates custom memorial portraits in pencil for the bereaved in this country and around the world.

Mitch lost his father to heart disease when he was only 15 years old.  At 21 he lost his older brother from progressive degenerative cerebral palsy. Days after celebrating he and his twin sister’s 29^th birthday, she and her two boys were killed in an automobile accident. Less than a year later his son Kelly was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor. They fought hard with all they could to save their son’s life with modern medicine, holistic medicine, faith, prayers for almost two years. He and his wife sold their home and all they owned and moved to Mexico where their son experienced a miracle healing. They soon discovered a healing is not always a cure and their son died December 1^st 1987. Since that time Mitch has dedicated his life to serving the bereaved.