We invite you to join and contribute to this Topics Around Grief workshop where we will identify valuable forms of grief support we have received from friends, family, professionals, and colleagues.

We invite you to join and contribute to this Topics Around Grief workshop where we will identify valuable forms of grief support we have received from friends, family, professionals, and colleagues.

We invite your participation in a discussion which looks at how we manage in a culture that tends to classifies grief in finite terms (e.g. 3 days compassionate leave, expectations that grief has closure). Plus, how we feel cultural expectations tally with our lived experience of grief. This session will be held online via Zoom.... Read more »

“Words have the power to transform one’s day from happy to sad or vice versa…” Please join us in a relaxed and welcoming environment to reflect upon times when the words of others have (words, a sentence, a story, or an act) left us feeling hurt, even devastated … or, alternately, deeply grateful. Bereavement is a time when the power of words can seem especially strong. We will carefully explore what it was about the words, the sentence, the context in which it was said, etc. that had its power in helping or hindering. Perhaps it wasn't the words themselves, but the tone, that made the difference. Unlike the famous saying, our words and the words of others can hurt, but equally they can enliven and enrich.

The impact of bereavement can create such stress that it can lead to estrangement from family members and friends. This session explores a therapeutic approach called Narrative Therapy, in particular its tools such as letter writing or "storying" an event. These tools can be especially healing when people have experienced estrangement, and this session will demonstrate why.e the difference.