2020 Annual November Seminar

From the inception of Women Alone Together, providing opportunities for women to deal with loss has been a key objective. A Saturday morning before the holidays with a counselor soon became an annual event. 

This year has been different. This event will be “virtually” different. Our objective remains to provide the opportunity for women to deal with loss.

Join us. Invite friends who may be lonely, have experienced the recent loss of a loved one or a painful change in circumstance. (Anyone can register on the website). We hope to leave with peace and perhaps a new perspective. We are grateful for the company of others. We do well to expect “These Holidays will be different”.  Join us as we reflect and prepare. 

About our discussion leader

Judy Colyer Wolfe is a grief therapist and pastoral counselor. She provides confidential counseling for children, youth and adults who are grieving a change that has occurred.  Judy conducted this seminar for Women Alone Together previously in 2008, 2010, and 2012.

Everyone experiences change. Changes that impact our lives call for grieving. How one learns to handle these changes has profound cognitive, experiential, psychological, emotional and physical implications. Judy is frequent speaker and educator in the field of loss and grief for clergy, educators, health professionals, and caregivers. Georgia State University gives continuing education credits for professionals who complete one of the seminars Judy has developed. Helping Yourself and Others Who Grieve and Children – The Forgotten Griever are two such. She can do parts of these for schools, churches, etc.

Judy earned a B.A. in Psychology and Religion from Mercer University and a Master of Divinity from Emory University Candler School of Theology. Judy was ordained an Elder in Full Connection in the North Georgia Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church in '91. She served as the Associate Pastor of the Birmingham United Methodist Church for ten years. Before that, after completing Basic and Advanced Clinical Pastoral Education at the Tri-Hospital CPE Center, served ten years

the Oncology Staff Chaplain at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite. She completed her graduate grief education and counseling through ADEC (Association for Death Education and Counseling) and became a Certified Thanatologist. She is a Board-Certified Chaplain in the Academy of Certified Chaplains and an Academy Certified Master Chaplain III in the American Psychotherapy Association.

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