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Subscribers' events - November 2008

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7 November 2008

CHILDREN AND LOSS - TIME TO LISTEN

Fourth International Conference

This day conference will offer an awareness of the national ‘grief matters’ agenda relating to children and bereavement, insights into children’s experience of parental death and how to help, and the importance of being proactive rather than reactive in dealing with loss
Venue: The Octagon Centre, Hull

Contact: 01482 784343 or hospice@dovehouse.org.uk

 

20-21 November 2008

TELLING UNTOLD STORIES: GIVING VOICE TO THE DISENFRANCHISED IN BEREAVEMENT RESEARCH

The Bereavement Research Forum Conference 2008 will explore:

-The value of story and narrative research as a way of giving a 'voice to to suffering in a way that lies outside the domain of the biomedical voice' (Hyden, 1997:49);
-The needs of of particular groups whose bereavement is disenfranchised as expressed through their narratives in recent research studies;
-The way in which our own stories and narratives - as practitioners and researchers - are one of the ways in which 'we create and give meaning to our social reality' (Hyden, 1997: 50).
Venue: All Saints Pastoral Centre, St Albans

Contact: 020 8525 6090 or shana.sritharan@gmail.com

 

25 November 2008

SCHOOLS AND BEREAVEMENT

Teachers and schools are in the front line of support for bereaved children.  This day is aimed at promoting the competence and confidence of colleagues in education and related services in responding positively to the needs of school-age children.  The Candle Project now has substantial experience of communication with schools in situations of sudden and traumatic death and the Social Work Department in working with families.
Venue: St Christopher's Hospice, Sydenham, London

Contact: 020 8768 4656 or education@stchristophers.org.uk

 

26 November 2008

IS ALL BEREAVEMENT TRAUMATIC?

This conference aims to explore issues around bereavement and to address the impact on families and the professionals involved. The programme will include case studies and DVD presentations from both families and professionals.

Keynote speakers: David Trickey, Porfessor Stephen Joseph
Venue: Royal Society of Medicine, London

Contact: 01494 479750 or training@childbereavement.org.uk

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