Join our regular third Tuesday meeting for Funeral Professionals Peer Support. This meeting is open to anyone who serves their communities during some of their worst moments, providing care to the grieving. That includes everyone from the front office to the back room, chapel to gravesite, suited to coveralls — and everyone in-between. As a peer support meeting, all are invited to share personal experiences and connect with people who understand what you experience everyday.
Open to everyone across North America, no registration is required to attend, simply mark your calendar and save the Zoom link to access the meeting.
Working with families is simultaneously the best and hardest part of the job. It can be loaded with tension, and the compartmentalization needed to avoid bringing your work home with you can give rise to a host of other challenges.
On February 21, Todd R. Reinholt facilitates the monthly Funeral Professionals Peer Support meeting for a discussion on arrangement conferences, both the challenges of the struggle and the joys of success.
No CE is available because this is the time to connect. CANA is proud to host what is hopefully the first of many of these meetings, but staff will not be attending to give you the space to talk to your peers and share. You do not need to be a CANA Member to participate.
Apprentices, interns, and students: you are welcome!
Funeral Professionals Peer Support meeting tonight at 9:00pm AST.
When challenges arise, it’s important to find the people we can trust. On January 17, Funeral Professionals Peer Support opens 2023 with a discussion on where to turn when times get hard. Lisa Baue of Your Funeral Coach invites funeral professionals to share stories about their difficult transitions.
Join our regular third Tuesday meeting for Funeral Professionals Peer Support. This meeting is open to anyone who serves their communities during some of their worst moments, providing care to the grieving. That includes everyone from the front office to the back room, chapel to gravesite, suited to coveralls — and everyone in-between. As a peer support meeting, all are invited to share personal experiences and connect with people who understand what you experience everyday.
Open to everyone across North America, no registration is required to attend, simply mark your calendar and save the Zoom link to access the meeting.
Bill Sampson and Lisa Smith facilitate the September meeting to get at the heart of what motivates us to serve. When people ask why you chose a career in funeral service, the typical answer is, “Because I want to help people, or I like helping people.” Helping people is what we do. During the meeting, we’ll reflect on why we do it (help people), why it’s important to us and rethink do how we do it, and how the how has changed during the pandemic, throughout our career or in our changing roles.
No CE is available because this is the time to connect. CANA is proud to host what is hopefully the first of many of these meetings, but staff will not be attending to give you the space to talk to your peers and share. You do not need to be a CANA Member to participate.
Apprentices, interns, and students: you are welcome!
Access the Professional Peer Support Zoom Meeting:
Join our regular third Tuesday meeting for Funeral Professionals Peer Support. This meeting is open to anyone who serves their communities during some of their worst moments, providing care to the grieving. That includes everyone from the front office to the back room, chapel to gravesite, suited to coveralls — and everyone in-between. As a peer support meeting, all are invited to share personal experiences and connect with people who understand what you experience everyday.
Open to everyone across North America, no registration is required to attend, simply mark your calendar and save the Zoom link to access the meeting.
Ross Wilson facilitates the August meeting discussion. Ross is a hospice chaplain in Ottawa, and mental health consultant who specializes in psychological first aid and end of life care. His work has proven to be essential amidst the global pandemic. “During the first lockdown, he observed that first responders and front-line workers tasked with the responsibility of helping others, felt stressed and burnt out for not having support themselves. ‘Many of them would ask, well who is helping us?’”
No CE is available because this is the time to connect. CANA is proud to host what is hopefully the first of many of these meetings, but staff will not be attending to give you the space to talk to your peers and share. You do not need to be a CANA Member to participate.
Apprentices, interns, and students: you are welcome!
WHAT TO EXPECT
CONNECTION
Peer support is provided by peers, for peers. Founded on key principles such as respect and shared responsibility, it’s a group of individuals with similar experiences who encourage and assist each other. Everyone is expected to treat others with care and understanding. Everyone will be given space to share their story, but no one will be “called on” because respectful listening can also be beneficial.
Anonymity is respected: attendees are asked to share just their first name or initial when they log in.
Participants will keep the information shared in the group confidential and the event will not be recorded.
Cameras and microphones are not required to be on during the meeting.
WHAT IT IS AND ISN’T
This meeting is not a substitute for therapy
This event does not provide continuing education credit
JOIN THE MEETING
Join the funeral professional peer support meeting for anyone who works for a funeral home, cemetery, or crematory serving the public or supporting those who do. Students, apprentices, and interns are welcome.
Topic: Peer Support Group, from FPPS & CANA Date: Tuesday, August 16, 2022 Time: 7:00 PM Central Time (see what time that is for you)
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Join our regular third Tuesday meeting for Funeral Professionals Peer Support. This meeting is open to anyone who serves their communities during some of their worst moments, providing care to the grieving. That includes everyone from the front office to the back room, chapel to gravesite, suited to coveralls — and everyone in-between. As a peer support meeting, all are invited to share personal experiences and connect with people who understand what you experience everyday.
Open to everyone across North America, no registration is required to attend, simply mark your calendar and save the Zoom link to access the meeting.
On July 19, join the discussion with facilitator and CANA Executive Director Barbara Kemmis, who will address the topic of navigating managerial conflict and bad bosses. Barbara will share her experience, both as an employee who needed to “manage up” a lacking boss, and as a current supervisor of six employees (and steward to 3,500 members).
No CE is available because this is the time to connect. CANA is proud to host what is hopefully the first of many of these meetings, but staff will not be attending to give you the space to talk to your peers and share. You do not need to be a CANA Member to participate.
Apprentices, interns, and students: you are welcome!
Meeting ID: 841 6050 5357 Passcode: FPPS One tap mobile +13126266799,,84160505357# US (Chicago) +16465588656,,84160505357# US (New York) or Dial by your location +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
Join our regular third Tuesday meeting for Funeral Professionals Peer Support. This meeting is open to anyone who serves their communities during some of their worst moments, providing care to the grieving. That includes everyone from the front office to the back room, chapel to gravesite, suited to coveralls — and everyone in-between. As a peer support meeting, all are invited to share personal experiences and connect with people who understand what you experience everyday.
Open to everyone across North America, no registration is required to attend, simply mark your calendar and save the Zoom link to access the meeting.
In honor of the one-year anniversary of these meetings, Michael Dixon will open the meeting by sharing his personal journey that led him to founding Funeral Professionals Peer Support.
No CE is available because this is the time to connect. CANA is proud to host these meetings, but staff will not be attending to give you the space to talk to your peers and share. You do not need to be a CANA Member to participate.
Apprentices, interns, and students: you are welcome!
Join our regular third Tuesday meeting for Funeral Professionals Peer Support. This meeting is open to anyone who serves their communities during some of their worst moments, providing care to the grieving. That includes everyone from the front office to the back room, chapel to gravesite, suited to coveralls — and everyone in-between.
Finding balance between the need to protect the workforce, comply with regulations, and serve families is something we can all relate to. In May, Paul Harris facilitates a discussion about your concerns about health and safety on the job.
Join our regular third Tuesday meeting for Funeral Professionals Peer Support. This meeting is open to anyone who serves their communities during some of their worst moments, providing care to the grieving. That includes everyone from the front office to the back room, chapel to gravesite, suited to coveralls — and everyone in-between. As a peer support meeting, all are invited to share personal experiences and connect with people who understand what you experience everyday.
Open to everyone across North America, no registration is required to attend, simply mark your calendar and save the Zoom link to access the meeting. Marguerite Ham brings her coaching expertise to facilitate the April meeting to cover Tension & Distrust in the Workplace. She is a Certified DISC Practitioner, Human Capital Coach, and Grief and Loss Coach. That means she listens professionally, and she knows the power of sharing an experience: “Increasing awareness, acknowledging what you are feeling and talking about it out loud with a trusted friend, colleague, or coach can release pressure immediately.”
No CE is available because this is the time to connect. CANA is proud to host these meetings, but staff will not be attending to give you the space to talk to your peers and share. You do not need to be a CANA Member to participate. Apprentices, interns, and students: you are welcome!
Join our regular third Tuesday meeting for Funeral Professionals Peer Support. This meeting is open to anyone who serves their communities during some of their worst moments, providing care to the grieving. That includes everyone from the front office to the back room, chapel to gravesite, suited to coveralls — and everyone in-between.
As a peer support meeting, all are invited to share personal experiences and connect with people who understand what you experience everyday.
Open to everyone across North America, no registration is required to attend, simply mark your calendar and save the Zoom link to access the meeting.
Bill Sampson of Dodge Chemical Company Canada facilitates our March meeting to continue the discussion about the real and imagined challenges that keep funeral professionals up at night. This month, he’ll discuss what could possibly go wrong in the preproom and share some of his own experience.
No CE is available because this is the time to connect. CANA is proud to host these meetings, but staff will not be attending to give you the space to talk to your peers and share. You do not need to be a CANA Member to participate. Apprentices, interns, and students: you are welcome!
Canadian Funeral Peer Support operates on a NOT-FOR-PROFIT basis and is not publicly funded. We offer free group sessions to licensed, non-licensed and retired Funeral Professionals Canada.
*Disclaimer: We are not licensed therapists or counselors.
