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This one makes you a better human at the job. If you've been doing this work for any length of time, is the part nobody prepared you for.
The Weight of the Work is the first OVMA-approved continuing education session in occupational grief literacy built specifically for veterinary professionals. Not adapted from a human healthcare template. Not a wellness session with a stethoscope slide. Built from the ground up for the grief load that is specific to veterinary medicine — the euthanasias that don't get debriefed, the client who breaks down and then you go back to the schedule, the moral weight that accumulates across a career with no framework for where it goes.
This is professional development. What it gives you is a framework, not a feeling.
What the 90 minutes covers:
The distinction between occupational grief and burnout — and why that distinction matters for what you actually do about it. How grief accumulates in veterinary settings without a processing framework, and what that costs over time. What client grief responses look like from the inside out, and how to hold space for them without absorbing them. An introduction to the GGA occupational grief literacy framework — practical, replicable, and built for the pace of a clinic day.
Who it's for:
Every person in your clinic carries the grief load of this work. This session is built for veterinarians, RVTs, veterinary assistants, and administrative staff who hold space for clients during the hardest appointments.
Delivery options:
Live online — scheduled sessions
interactive, facilitator-led
Self-paced asynchronous (access the full recorded session on your schedule)
In-person, small group — GTA and Southwest Ontario, groups of 8 or more
Conference session — available for OVMA and regional veterinary events
What's included: Session access (live or recorded) · Session notes and frameworks (PDF) · OVMA CE certificate (1.5 hours) · Lifetime access to the recording
This is professional development content. It does not constitute clinical supervision or psychological treatment.
This one makes you a better human at the job. If you've been doing this work for any length of time, is the part nobody prepared you for.
The Weight of the Work is the first OVMA-approved continuing education session in occupational grief literacy built specifically for veterinary professionals. Not adapted from a human healthcare template. Not a wellness session with a stethoscope slide. Built from the ground up for the grief load that is specific to veterinary medicine — the euthanasias that don't get debriefed, the client who breaks down and then you go back to the schedule, the moral weight that accumulates across a career with no framework for where it goes.
This is professional development. What it gives you is a framework, not a feeling.
What the 90 minutes covers:
The distinction between occupational grief and burnout — and why that distinction matters for what you actually do about it. How grief accumulates in veterinary settings without a processing framework, and what that costs over time. What client grief responses look like from the inside out, and how to hold space for them without absorbing them. An introduction to the GGA occupational grief literacy framework — practical, replicable, and built for the pace of a clinic day.
Who it's for:
Every person in your clinic carries the grief load of this work. This session is built for veterinarians, RVTs, veterinary assistants, and administrative staff who hold space for clients during the hardest appointments.
Delivery options:
Live online — scheduled sessions
interactive, facilitator-led
Self-paced asynchronous (access the full recorded session on your schedule)
In-person, small group — GTA and Southwest Ontario, groups of 8 or more
Conference session — available for OVMA and regional veterinary events
What's included: Session access (live or recorded) · Session notes and frameworks (PDF) · OVMA CE certificate (1.5 hours) · Lifetime access to the recording
This is professional development content. It does not constitute clinical supervision or psychological treatment.