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Grief in the Workplace - Providing Effective Support to Grieving Employees

Grief and loss are part and parcel of the workplace environment. Whether it is someone we know who has died in an expected or tragic way, the diagnosis of a terminal illness, or the breakup of a relationship, these aspects of our lives cannot be left at the door when we come to work. What is the best thing to do or say as a manager in such situations?

Self Care for the Person in a Caring Relationship

The workshop will allow the participants to explore the conscious and unconscious issues which influence the behaviour of the person in a caring role. It will provide a theoretical framework for issues of power, control helping others and the dynamics of relationship. It will be facilitated in an experiential, interactive and reflective way, and will provide opportunities for the participants to engage in collaborative learning.

Addiction and Loss

Both the process of addiction and the process of recovery from addiction can be seen as having loss and grieving as central themes. This workshop will look at the psychological dynamics common to different addictions in relation to these inevitable themes of loss and grieving, with an emphasis on how clients may be practically helped to work through their particular loss issues.

Loss and Bereavement in People with Intellectual Disabilities

This workshop explores the impact of loss and the bereavement experiences of people with intellectual disability. Among the topics discussed are conceptual understanding of death; emotional knowledge and recognition skills; grief reactions of people with intellectual disabilities; and guidelines for intervention and support.

Grandparents' Grief: A Complexity of Losses

This workshop will be experiential in nature and is suitable for both professionals and those who work with older people. The workshop will explore the identity and role of grandparents in contemporary society. It will examine the many losses experienced by grandparents through death, separation, divorce, emigration and the breaking of the grandparent/grandchild contact. The workshop will help participants to understand the profound sense of powerlessness and the cumulative effect of grief experienced by grandparents which is often unacknowledged. It will illustrate approaches that can enhance the coping mechanisms of bereaved grandparents.

Final Journeys

Final Journeys 1 & 2 is an introductory programme aimed at enhancing the quality of the interactions between patients at end of life, their families and hospital staff. It is an interactive programme at introductory level aiming to develop a culture of awareness of end of life care among all staff and to support the development of communication skills in end-of-life care. It was developed through the Hospice Friendly Hospitals programme. This workshop gives managers or staff from acute and community hospitals and nursing homes an opportunity to engage in Final Journeys and to consider whether it is a programme that could be facilitated locally in their workplace.