How bereavement support is preventing mental ill-health, growing churches and transforming lives.
7:30pm Wednesday 23 October 2024
Bereavement, when it happens often comes when least expected. When we lose a loved one, our intense emotions trigger a massive stress response with wide-ranging repercussions on our mental, emotional but also physical wellbeing.
After years of taboo, the subject of death and grief is opening up, with increased realisation of the extent to which unprocessed loss has been affecting our nation.
This is one of those situations where ordained or lay we have a part to play …..
Working across deaneries we can respond and provide spiritual, emotional and practical support as part of our Christian care for someone who has been bereaved …. we can make a difference.
In this webinar Revd Nicky Grey will explain how bereavement impacts and its relationship to mental ill-health and other societal issues, and why The Bereavement Journey® programme is growing so fast with such extraordinary results.
Nicky is the Head of Church of Engagement for the charity AtaLoss, which provides signposting to bereavement services and information and resources churches to provide effective community support, not least The Bereavement Journey programme, already in 360 locations since its re-launch last year.
As an Anglican priest widowed in 2018 and with her mother dying just 6 weeks later, Nicky has found The Bereavement Journey deeply helpful for herself and her parish ministry and recently in her role as Chaplain at HMP Foston Hall, where she’s been delivering the programme for women in prison.