Collective Grief

Janice – “Grief is a response to loss”

December 10, 2018

Janice discusses waves of grief and how important it is to go with it.

Caileigh – Working with children in grief

February 23, 2023

Caileigh shares why she likes working with and supporting children in grief. “Over the course of their lives, children and youth and families experience a lot of losses, and it’s an empowering job to empower others. I’m not only empowering them, but I’m also building parent capacity in recognizing that it does take a village and it takes a community to support a child.”

Cara – Defining Intellectual disabilities and grief

November 6, 2022

Cara discusses how grief literacy needs to be improved across the board for people with intellectual disabilities to learn more about grief, death and dying. There is a great need to include them in this natural, normal part of life that we’ll all experience.

Janice – “Crying”

December 10, 2018

Janice explains how crying helps physically and emotionally.

Teresa – Understanding people with intellectual disabilities and grief

October 1, 2022

Teresa shares an example and discusses the importance of truly understanding people with intellectual disabilities when they are telling us their stories

Rev. Sky – “If you have experienced sudden loss”

December 10, 2018

Rev. Sky discusses things you can do to help navigate emotions.

Keith – “Disenfranchised Grief”

December 10, 2018

Keith describes disenfranchised grief.

Maureen – “They are still your child”

October 17, 2019

Maureen explains how you find different ways of parenting.

Claudia – Materials in art therapy

August 2, 2022

Claudia discusses all of the wonderful options of materials to use in art therapy. Art, markers, clay, pencils, water collours, cutting, tearing. They physical engagment with the materials is like alchemy.

Jean – My own grief and being a professional counsellor

April 1, 2022

Jean shares about being a counselor and going through her own grief

Shannon – Blessings and sadness

November 22, 2022

Shannon discusses how just showing up, being present is a powerful way of supporting to someone who has lost. Listen more – talk less.