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Suicide Awareness Walk – SPAN Inc
Dai Gum San Chinese Precinct 1-11 Bridge Street, Bendigo, VIC, AustraliaThe Bendigo Suicide Prevention Awareness Network walk on Sunday, March 19, allows people touched by suicide (and those who want to show support for them) to remember loved ones, friends, work or school mates and to raise more public awareness of the issue of suicide across the Central Victorian community.
*Please note: This is not a Compassionate Friends Victoria organised event. For any questions about the walk, please contact Alannah McGregor on 0408 541 082 or email alannah.m.15@gmail.com
The Compassionate Friends Walk 2 Remember
To be ConfirmedThe Compassionate Friends Walk 2 Remember is an opportunity to connect with other bereaved families and talk freely about your child, brother or sister in a safe, relaxed environment.
Trivia Night
Richmond Union Bowls Club 2 Gleadell St, Richmond, VIC, AustraliaJoin us for a night of testing your brain power, connecting with friends, bid on fantastic silent auction items and great prizes with 100% of proceeds going to support bereaved parents and siblings.
Insights on Grief – Tools for the Shepparton Community
FamilyCare 19 Welsford Street, Shepparton, VIC, AustraliaAre you wanting to improve your interactions with bereaved people?
Want to know what to say and how to care?
Interested in hearing people’s personal stories of loss and grief?
SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES AFTER LOSS: A “Topics Around Grief” Discussion Workshop
via Zoom , AustraliaIn this facilitated group discussion workshop, we will explore a range of issues surrounding spirituality and bereavement.
It's a great opportunity to broaden our understandings and insight on the subject matter, and find some comfort in our increased understandings, too.
Parent Grief – Sibling Grief: Similarities and Differences
via Zoom , AustraliaThis discussion workshop – the fourth in the “Topics Around Grief” program will be facilitated by a bereaved parent, JAN McNESS, and a bereaved sibling, ANDREW McNESS.
Jan and Andrew will draw upon their own bereavement experiences to open group discussion on where parent and sibling grief are similar, where parental grief and sibling grief are unique from one another, and how parents and siblings can support one another.
Brief Encounter / We Were Dancing Copy
Malvern Theatre 29A Burke Road, East Malvern, Victoria, AustraliaThe Malvern Theatre Company and The Compassionate Friends Victoria
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BRIEF ENCOUNTER / WE WERE DANCING
Two One-Act Plays by Noel Coward
Spring Fling
via Zoom , AustraliaDust off the Winter blues and come join us at the centre for Friday night drinks.
Spring is the time for new beginnings and the knowledge that tiny seedlings will grow and strengthen. Part of the grief journey is a allowing yourself some space to heal and grow.
It’s OK to talk about suicide – Community Awareness Walk
Tom's Block, Royal Botanical Gardens, Melbourne Tom's Block, Royal Botanical Gardens, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaWorld Suicide Day is on Sunday, September 10.
To mark this day you can join us for a Community Walk. Anyone who has been touched by suicide is welcome.
It will be a gentle walk with some brief formalities and other activities which will give people the opportunity to remember their loved ones.
The theme for the walk is “It’s OK to talk about suicide” because we want to create awareness about the appropriate ways to talk about suicide and bereavement.
Sensing a Way through Grief: Creativity and Grief
via Zoom , AustraliaWhat are the various forms of creativity that come from grief?
In this session, we will explore the role of creativity in living with grief, and the places from which creativity can emerge.
We will also explore the “felt sense”, a special kind of internal bodily awareness.
This session will be facilitated by Greg Roberts and Jeanette Roberts. Greg is a social worker, counsellor & educator. Jeanette is a sociologist, writer/editor and teacher. She has written the books “Journey Through The Abyss” and “Art of Healing the Self”.