Grief and Family Work

Overview

Expand your focus from the individual’s experience of grief to a relational and family perspective, exploring the concepts of collective grief and cultural grief which affect communities and groups of people.

By attending this workshop, you will:

• Gain a conceptual knowledge of frameworks for understanding and working with families experiencing loss and grief
• Understand the impact of different types of grief, including disenfranchised grief, ambiguous loss, and collective and cultural grief
• Learn how to support families to heal and strengthen connections in the context of adapting to loss
• Reflect on what you can bring to this work and how to sustain yourself in it

Who should attend

Health, welfare and community practitioners and practice leaders across the sector who engage with families and/or are interested in working relationally with loss and grief. This workshop is relevant to practitioners working in diverse settings.