Good Grief: The Myth of 5 Stages with Rabbi Emeritus Gary Fink

Good Grief: The Myth of 5 Stages

Rabbi Emeritus Gary Fink will speak on different ways that people grieve after a significant loss.

In 1969, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross theorized that people experience five stages of grief. In the last 50 years, research has shown that grief is not so simple — one size does not fit all. When a loved one dies or when we face our own mortality, many of us do not experience grief as five orderly stages. Rabbi Fink will use examples from Jewish tradition to describe various trajectories of grief, explain factors that influence how we respond to loss, and suggest ways that people cope when their world turns upside down.

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