Sedona Grief Retreat

Dr. Joanne Cacciatore is the founder of the MISS Foundation and she is currently a professor at Arizona State University. Her area of expertise is traumatic death, specifically child death, and she is an acclaimed public speaker on this topic. Dr. Cacciatore also specializes in counseling those affected by traumatic death and she is a Diplomate in the American Psychotherapy Association. Her therapeutic interventions include Mindfulness Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Logotherapy, and various other therapies, such as Repeated Exposure Therapy, to manage Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Her research has been published in peer reviewed journals such as The Lancet, Birth, Death Studies, Omega Journal of Death and Dying, Social Work, Social Work and Healthcare, and Families in Society.

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Kara L.C. Jones is a certified Appreciative Inquiry & Whole Systems IQ (tm) Coach using the Hero's Journey as the key model. She is also a certified Reiki Master-Teacher and the co-founder of The Creative Grief Coaching Studio. She is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University where she studied Literary, Cultural Theory and Poetics with a minor in Child Development from Chatham College. When at CMU, Kara mentored with Hedda Sharapan, David Newell, Fred Rogers and the team at Family Communications, Inc., producers of Mister Rogers Neighborhood. She is the author of titles such as the creative play book "1,000 Permissions Granted," the grief support book "Mrs. Duck and The Woman," and she contributed a chapter on Grief & Creativity to the collection, "They Were Still Born." Her creativity ideas have been seen in publication such as Redbook, Totally Her, Essence Magazine, Somerset Life.

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Hawk Jones has lent his creative consulting talents to clients such as Qwest, Starbucks, Holland America, Seattle Public Utility, Mekosun, and Groove For Thought, just to name a few. His GURU art-photography project received international media coverage, and he has recently moved his studio to Sedona, AZ. The name of his studio, Kotagraph, was chosen in honor and memory of his son Dakota Jones whose life and death spurred Hawk and his wife Kara to also co-found KotaPress.

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