LIVE WEBINAR | Supporting Grief Journeys: making meaning and moving forward

18 February 2025

Supporting Grief Journeys: making meaning and moving forward

Live webinar Tuesday 18th February 1:00pm – 3:00pm NZDT

 

Who should attend this webinar?

Anyone who works in a professional care role or supports people through all forms of loss and grief. Our content is applicable to a wide variety of professions including counsellors, social workers, teachers, emergency response teams, medical, corrections, mental health, hospice, volunteers, caregivers and more.

 

Overview

The aim of this webinar is to grow our understandings of loss and grief, and ways to support others facing losses of all kinds throughout life.

Loss is unavoidable in life, and grief is a natural, normal response to loss. As well as taking us to the depths of painful feeling, grief can also contain the potential for significant meaning-making, learning and renewal. When we hold compassionate space for another person’s grief, we demonstrate care and respect for their suffering, and trust in their capacity to journey forward with their loss.

 

Key learning points

  • Acknowledging and appreciating the many losses that people face in life
  • Understanding the diverse nature of grief experience: Physical, Emotional, Existential, Traumatic
  • Review of psychological models for understanding grief
  • Unpacking people’s taken for granted ideas about grief – the “shoulds” and “oughts”
  • Helping the person to develop their own most helpful stories about grief – making meaning and learning to do grief my way
  • When is it time to make space for big feelings and when is it time to approach healing?
  • What might healing through grief look like? What is the counsellor’s contribution?

 

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FAQs

Q Presenter Bio

Dr Susan Crozier:
Susan is a counsellor and supervisor in private practice. Her experience working with people through grief and loss was developed through her years working as a counsellor at Hospice. Susan originally trained in Narrative Therapy, and her work with people draws on Narrative and Collaborative practices as well as ideas and practices from many wisdom traditions including contemporary Buddhism and Progressive Christianity.

She is a writer, maker, gardener, cook, partner, friend, sister, auntie and lives in a multi-species household with several loved humans and animals. After a lifelong involvement in education, personal development, and spiritual exploration, Susan is deeply interested in questions about how we make a possible world for ourselves in the face of the challenges that life inevitably brings.

Susan has a PhD from the University of Auckland and is a member of NZAC

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