A Two Day Person-Centred Experiential Workshop for Therapists: When it’s hard to grieve

Grieving can be hard.  There are many reasons for this. It may be due to how we have been conditioned to manage loss and not to show our feelings of sadness or to present emotional needs when growing up. Perhaps our losses are complex, multiple, ambiguous or chronic.  Perhaps there simply have not been sufficient or safe spaces in our lives to give attention to feelings of grief.  What about wider cultural messages around expressing grief?  Yet there are many sources of loss and grief throughout our lives, and unacknowledged or unrecognised grief can be the most profoundly isolating and lonely of human experiences.

Rachel Freeth & Jan Hawkins will facilitate 

We are both experienced person-centred therapists, supervisors and trainers who will also offer some of our own perspectives and experiences on:

-       The range of loss and grief we may experience

-       What can get in the way of grieving and why it can be so hard to express our grief with others

-       The struggle to ask for what we need, and do we even know what we need?

-       Implications for our work as therapists listening to the grief of others, for example, when our own grief may complicate, or perhaps deepen our work.

-       How we may take care of ourselves.

For those coming from a distance, there are a number of B&B possibilities nearby.