Course Aims:

To encourage participants to confront feelings, beliefs and attitudes about death, dying and bereavement.

To identify risk factors, common grief reactions and complicated grief.

To prepare participants to act in an advocacy and supportive role for dying and bereaved people.

Course Aims:

To help participants increase their understanding of the needs of bereaved / dying adults.

To increase the skills of participants in counselling bereaved / dying adults.

To demonstrate the value and importance of clinical supervision and self-care.

Course Aims:

To prepare care giving adults to help children understand death as a part of life.

To help care giving adults increase their skills in facilitating age appropriate expressions
of grief in children who have someone close to them die.

To increase the confidence of course participants in extrapolating from bereavement
focused concepts and skills in order to facilitate children’s grief resulting from other losses.

Course Aims:

To teach skills involved in talking to children and young people or adults about death, dying and bereavement
To teach skills necessary for counselling individual bereaved children and young people (3-18) or adults
To provide internship training in facilitating therapy groups for bereaved children and young people (3-18)

Hours Involved
Approximately 10 hours per week, comprised of group work, individual counselling, preparation, de-briefing,
clinical supervision, written assignments and required reading.

Note
This course is by invitation only after completion of prerequisites, application and selection interview with trainer/s.

Prerequisite
Three day course “Core Course in Bereavement Counselling” and,
Three day course “Working with Bereaved Children“.

The course consists of:
Selection interview.
Six months (minimum) commitment to working with trained facilitators in childrens’ grief groups.
Recommended reading.

Held on Tuesday or Wednesday during the school term and consisting of pre-group meeting, group
session with children, post group debriefing.

A graduation certificate will be presented after successful completion.

No fee once the prerequisite 2 x 3 day workshops are completed.

Note
Evidence of a current Working with Children Check in a volunteer capacity is required. Police checks are carried out prior to clinical involvement.