Are you looking to develop your skills to support people who are experiencing bereavement and loss?
This full-day course will help you to acquire skills, knowledge and strategies to use in your workplace and everyday life to have sensitive conversations around grief and offer effective support, both to people working in your organisation and those accessing your services.
Where is the training delivered?
This is a full-day course delivered in person, with scheduled breaks.
All sessions will be delivered at The Broadway Cinema, Nottingham (The Studio, 14-18 Broad Street, Nottingham NG1 3AL).
We currently have training available on the following dates (please select one):
Wednesday 2 October 2024, 10am-3pm Register here
Tuesday 19 November 2024, 10am-3pm Register here
Tuesday 14 January 2025, 10am-3pm Register here
Thursday 13 March 2025, 10am-3pm Register here
What will you learn?
This interactive workshop is designed to help individuals become familiar with the nature of grief and how to go about supporting people in their loss. This session has a general focus on grief and bereavement and offers a great space to develop a baseline understanding of how to offer effective support to those who are grieving.
The training will cover:
- Psychoeducation on grief and associated difficulties
- Explore psychological models of grief
- Increase understanding of Anticipatory grief
- How to have difficult conversations and address conflict
- How to support others through showing empathy and compassion
- How to support ourselves and develop personal resilience
- Signposting and resources
Please note: this training is designed to upskill people in their knowledge, skills and confidence to support people who are grieving. This course is NOT a grief support group, or a space to receive bereavement support/therapy.
Who should sign up?
- This training is targeted at a range of staff, including those in direct service delivery, managers, and may also be of interest to people within Human Resources departments who can influence policy and practice to develop psychologically-informed support for the workforce.
- It is open to anyone with a desire to increase their skills and confidence in supporting people who experience grief.
- We also are running sessions on “Working therapeutically with grief” which is targeted more specifically at those working directly with service users or with a remit for supporting staff wellbeing, with a focus on prolonged or traumatic grief.
About our trainers
Our trainers have received bespoke training developed by a clinical psychologist from The Loss Foundation who specialises in bereavement support and contemporary psychological models of grief. A range of local organisations have agreed to support the roll out of this initiative and will be offered continued support over the next year to do this through the PDU and the Framework psychology team.
Is there a cost?
This partnership initiative has been funded by Framework, Nottingham Changing Futures and Nottingham City Council. It is free to take part and open to people working in Nottingham and neighbouring areas.
There is no cost to attend. However, failure to attend without notice will be classed as no show and may prevent you from being permitted to take part in future PDU training sessions.
We currently have training available on the following dates (please select one):
Wednesday 2 October 2024, 10am-3pm Register here
Tuesday 19 November 2024, 10am-3pm Register here
Tuesday 14 January 2025, 10am-3pm Register here
Thursday 13 March 2025, 10am-3pm Register here
Any questions?
Read more background to our Bereavement and Loss Training Project.
For more information please contact pdu@nottinghamcvs.co.uk
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