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We know that living well in today's society requires a great deal more than traditional academic education and some years in the workforce.  While that experience is extremely valuable, it does little to prepare us for grieving the loss of a child, helping a parent or in-law talk about death, or find meaning in post-workforce life.  ZurEd is here to meet those needs - as many as possible.

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Living Well in the Technological Era: (link to that course subject area) Guides to parenting, ending Internet or gaming addiction, teaching children, teens and adults to use the Internet healthfully and responsibly, and the ever-intriguing Psychology of the Internet.

Learning to Honor Grief and Death:

- How to talk with the terminally ill or elderly about death

- Changing the healthcare system to acknowledge death and handle this transition humanely, with room for a range of emotions and experience

- How grief and death are practiced in other cultures

- Negative effects of ignoring or denying death in American culture

- How to care for elderly parents or in-laws while remaining centered and balanced (as well as one can)

So many of us have a poor or completely absent relationship with healthy grieving and dying.  Yet, these areas of feeling and activity are part of all of our lives.  We lose loved ones, we get sick, and eventually all of us die. Unfortunately, American culture with its youthful energy completely ignores the psychological aspects of these events.  Grief in some cultures means wailing for days . . . wearing black for a year. . . throwing a party in celebration. . . and so much more.  Here, the instruction seems to be "here is how you can get over it quicker."

Psychology of Technology or call this Living Well in the Technological Era 

- The unique features of interacting online

- The positive uses of Internet technology and gaming

- The negative aspects of Internet technology and gaming

- How to use gaming positively in education

- How to identify and treat Internet and gaming addiction

- How to raise children and teens with a healthy (neither avoidant or - more commonly - overly indulgant) relationship to technology

Rushing authentic processes never goes well.  When grief is not felt and moved, people become addicts, emotionally stunted, or forever raw.  While huge cultural shifts are needed to allow people opportunities to grieve in the ways that make sense to them (AZ left off)