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NEWS Educational
he will keynote the Brazil Funeral Directors Association conven-
tion, again emphasizing “The Why of Meaningful Funerals.”
In addition Dr. Wolfelt has announced 2017 Educational
workshops across the United States and Canada. The content
of these workshops helps participants understand their own
grief, how to companion others in their grief, and the signifi-
cance of how when words are inadequate to still have mean-
ingful ceremonies. Sponsors include hospices, hospitals, uni-
versities, funeral homes, and a variety of community agencies.
The locations are as follows: March 1-3, Rotorua, New Zea-
land; March 19-20, Melbourne, Australia; March 24-26,
Queensland, Australia; April 11-12, Olathe, KS; April 12-13,
Topeka, KS; April 18-19, Fort Wayne, IN; April 20, Bates-
ville, IN; April 20-21, Columbus, OH; May 9-10, Colorado
Springs, CO; May 16-17, Cambridge, Ontario; May 17-18,
Toronto, Ontario; May 18-19, Hamilton, Ontario; Septem-
ber 26-27, Lubbock, TX; September 28, Albuquerque, NM;
October 10-11, Appleton, WI; October 17-18, St. Charles,
MO; October 19-20, Palm Harbor, FL; October 24-25, Des
Moines, IA; October 25-26, Cedar Rapids, IA; November 2,
Las Vegas, NV; and November 14-16, Vancouver, British Co-
lumbia. Locations to be determined include: September 19-
20, September 20-21, and September 21-22.
2017 course offerings to be presented at the Fort Collins facil-
ity (unless otherwise noted) for 2017have alsobeenannounced.
Wolfelt to Impact Funeral Service Nationally and
Internationally in 2017
FORT COLLINS,CO— Author, educator, and well-known
consultant to funeral service Alan D. Wolfelt , Ph.D., will
share his critical message of the importance of meaningful fu-
nerals in several locations internationally in 2017.
Dr. Wolfelt will be the keynote speaker for the Funeral Di-
rectors Association of New Zealand on March 1st in Rotorua,
New Zealand. His presentation is titled The Why of Mean-
ingful Funerals: Exploring a New Model Being Used in North
America. Dr. Wolfelt will also provide two additional days of
in-depth training on this topic to association members.
Dr. Wolfelt will then travel to Melbourne, Australia, on
March 19th, where he will present to the Australian Funeral
Directors Association. He keynoted the AFDA’s 2015 conven-
tion and has been asked to return to provide additional inten-
sive training on his body of work related to educating com-
munities and families about the value of meaningful funerals.
In addition, while in Melbourne he will be working with
the Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust to help them
with strategy and community education about the value of
meaningful memorialization.
Next Dr. Wolfelt will travel north to the Queensland Funer-
al Directors Association on March 24-26 to serve as keynote
speaker as well as provide a community workshop for caregiv-
ers on the importance of meaningful funeral experiences.
Summer will find Dr. Wolfelt in Brazil, where on June 30th
They are as follows: April 3-6,
Comprehensive Bereavement
Skills Training; May 1-4, Un-
derstanding and Respond-
ing to Complicated Mourn-
ing; June 5-8, Counseling
Skills Fundamentals; June
12-14, WHY We Need Fu-
nerals 3-Day Training Expe-
rience; July 17-20, Exploring
the Paradoxes of Mourning;
August 7-10, Companion-
ing the Traumatized Griever:
Reframing PTSD as “Catch-
Up” Mourning; August 28-
31, Support Group Facilitator
Training; September 11-14,
Comprehensive Bereavement
Skills Training; October
2-5,Exploring the Shadow of
the Ghosts of Grief; Novem-
ber 6-9, Suicide Grief: Com-
panioning the Mourner; and
December 11-14, Explor-
ing Spiritual Dimensions of
Death, Grief, and Mourning,
Scottsdale, AZ.
Dr. Wolfelt is a noted au-
thor, educator, and grief
counselor. A past recipient
of the Association for Death
Education and Counseling’s
Death Educator Award, he
serves as the director of the
Center for Loss and Life
Transition in Fort Collins,
CO. Dr. Wolfelt is the au-
thor of numerous books,
including A Tale of Two Fu-
nerals, Creating Meaningful
Funeral Experiences and Fu-
neral Home Customer Ser-
vice A to Z and also serves on
the faculty at the University
of Colorado Medical School
in the Department of Fam-
ily Medicine in addition to
writing a regular column on
customer service for The Di-
rector magazine.
For information about
these workshops or to ex-
plore sponsoring a program
in your community, email
or call 970-226-6050. For
additional dates, visit www.
and select
“Hear Dr. Wolfelt Speak.”