WAITING AND WADING: NAVIGATING BLACK GRIEF
Recorded: February 2022
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Webinar Co-Presenters:
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Jamie Eaddy Chism – INELDA Director of Program Development
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Medina Jones – Master of Divinity and hospital chaplain
Few studies have explored the grieving process among people of African descent. Many doulas may have unanswered questions: Are there unique factors that influence how African Americans grieve? How might doulas enter into the grief experience with people of African descent without causing more harm? What are the implications of Black grief for doulas and end-of-life care?
Join us for our monthly member webinar in February to explore these questions. A conversation between Dr. J and Medina will examine the African American experience with grief and end-of-life care, provide helpful tips for advocacy, and identify ways to wait with and wade through the waters of grief with empathy.
Bio: Dr. Jamie Eaddy Chism (she/her), CT, CTP, is the director of program development for INELDA. She is deeply committed to challenging the societal norms that make death a forbidden topic for so many people, helps cultivate sacred spaces for exploring our mortality. Her work with loss does not center solely on the end of life. Instead, Dr. Chism helps people navigate all kinds of loss, including losing a relationship, identity, normalcy, dreams, hope, etc. Her life’s passion and purpose is providing trauma-informed care, helping heal communities, and dismantling a system that disregards Black life, silences Black grief, and ignores Black death. She is married to Dr. Michael Chism.
Bio: Medina Jones is a mother, womanist, movement chaplain, and hospital chaplain. Medina serves as a spiritual companion alongside moments of crisis, transition, rehabilitation, death, spiritual awakening, and social change. Medina holds a Master of Divinity degree in psychology and religion from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York and engages in a healing-centered approach to care.
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