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Good counselors and lay care-givers must have "emotional intelligence." We need more than the dry "tips" in books to convince someone we really care and understand. It takes "guts" and being centered to offer peace and calm to someone sharing horrible pain.

We offer you several tools that will help sensitize you to those you wish to give insight and comfort:

Grief Support Multi-Media Aids Price List

TITLE	TYPE	LENGTH	PRICE/EACH
You Don't Get Over It, You Get Perspective	PAMPHLET	8 PANELS	$15/100+$3
Ishmael's Grief	AUDIO CASETTE	22:00	$10 ea.+$3
Birth of Wonder	AUDIO CASETTE	13:00	$9 ea.+$3
Grief Is Wanting What You Cannot Have	VHS VIDEO	43:00	$22 ea.+$3
Gettysburg Wounded It	AUDIO CASETTE	40:00	$10 ea.+$3
Antietam Wounded	AUDIO CASETTE	30:00	$10 ea.+$3

1. "You Don't Get Over It, You Get Perspective"(scroll halfway down our home page) is available in pamphlet form. It is eight panels on manila stock with line art.

   Price: $15 per hundred (100) plus $5 for handling and shipping. Delivery time: one week.

2. "Ishamel's Grief" - Audio Casette (time length: 22:00). This is "You Don't Get Over It, You Get Perspective" read in a soothing voice by Actress Ardyth Gilbertson with synthecizer accompaniment by composer/musician Seth Austen. Recommended especially for people with the most intense losses within the first year of the loss.

   Price: $10 each plus $3 for handling and shipping. Add $1 for each additional unit ordered. Delivery time: one week.

3. "The Birth of Wonder" - Audio Casette (time length: 13:00). See Script. Written to uplift and Inspire, this piece is read by Actress Ardyth Gilbertson, accompanied on guitar by Seth Austen. It is a companion to "Ishmael's Grief."

   Price: $9 plus $3 for handling and shipping. Add $1 for each additional unit ordered. Delivery time: one week.

4. "Grief is Wanting What You Cannot Have" - VHS Video (time length: 43:00). Broadcast quality production shot on super VHS and edited in state-of-the-art facilities, this presentation by Mr. Surkamp conveys feeling as well as insight into grief. It speaks as much about life. It is a comforting companion to a person grieving alone, especially in the first year. (See Carolyn Smith's comment).

   Price: $22 plus $3 for handling and shipping. Add $1 for each additional unit ordered. Delivery time: one week.

The Wounds of War Series:

• "Don't Mean Nothin'" - Audio Production (time length: 56:00) (not for sale). Broadcast in most major United States' cities in 1998-1999 by Public Radio International, this special presentation, winner of an Angel Award for "moral excellence in the media," tells the true story in a dramatic way of the readjustment difficulties of a young man who went to Vietnam as a combat soldier. He fights his demons when he returns home. Dr. Roger Pittman of Harvard Medical School and Dr. Charles Figley of Florida State University, two of the leading clinicians into treating post-traumatic stress disorder, both enthusiastically endored this production in writing. Sound scapes in "Don't Mean Nothin'" were provided courtesy of film dirctor Oliver Stone. The script is on this site.

• "Gettysburg Wounded": Audio casette (time length: 40:00) Uses music, six actors and actresses and sound effects to recreate the scene residents of Gettysburg, Pa. faced when over 100,000 soldiers converged on their town in July, 1863, leaving 50,000 dead or wounded three days later. Powerful and moving. Script taken from eyewitness accounts in the collection of the Adams County Historical Society at Gettysburg, Pa.

  Price: $10 each plus $3 for handling and shipping. Add $1 for each additional unit. Delivery time: one week.

• "Antietam Wounded": Audio casette (time length: 30:00) Similar in many ways in approach to "Gettysburg Wounded." It describes how 1000 residents of Shepherdstown, (then) Va. struggled to care for as many as 8,000 wounded soldiers from the Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) three miles away. This battle, with 22,770 casualties in one day, is officially called the bloodiest day in American military history. Uses diaries of twelve year old Minnie Bedinger Mitchell, Col. Henry Kyd Douglas, Nettie Lee, and others.

  Price: $10 each plus $3 for handling and shipping. Add $1 for each additional unit. Delivery time: one week.

  Purchases may be made by check or money order to: James Surkamp Productions, P.O. Box 1035, Shepherdstown, WV 25443.

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