Webinar: How to Remember, Reflect, and Connect in Grief for Grievers and Everyone

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Free webinar in honour of National Grief and Bereavement Day on November 19th, 2024.

1 PM – 2:30PM Eastern Standard Time (UTC−05:00)

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Join the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (CHPCA) for this free and interactive webinar, presented by the Saint Elizabeth Foundation, in honour of National Grief and Bereavement Day this November 19th, 2024. Together, we will get hands on with grief, and discover how to show up for ourselves and for others in grief. Through three simple and impactful activities, we will explore different ways that grievers and those around them can remember, reflect, and connect with others and with their own loss. Learn more about National Grief and Bereavement Day at chpca.ca/bereavementday.

Speakers:

  • Yvonne Heath, Author, Speaker, Founder of Love Your Life To Death and the #IJustShowedUp Movement
  • Heather Brown, Lead Therapist, Hospice Georgian Triangle

This webinar is for :

  • Anyone who has or is currently grieving a loss
  • Those who want to learn how they can support someone they know who is grieving

There will be multiple interactive exercises throughout the webinar! Participating in the hands-on activities is optional – you’ll still gain a lot just by joining us. For those interested, a few supplies from around your home will help you fully participate, which we included below for each activity. The list of supplies will also be included in your confirmation of registration. The webinar will be recorded, and the link to watch the recording will be sent to all registrants.

Activity Spotlight

Activity Spotlight: Virtual Reflection Room ®. Using storytelling as part of the grieving process to remember, celebrate, teach, learn, and connect. The Reflection Room® :

Creating space for discussions about dying, death, grief, loss, and healing.

The Reflection Room project was developed by the SE Research Centre in 2016 as part of SE Health’s commitment, as a social enterprise, to action-oriented research. Today, the Reflection Room is gifted to communities by the Saint Elizabeth Foundation to help people cope with grief and loss. A short virtual Reflection Room activity will be facilitated for webinar attendees to engage in story-making and storytelling to cope with grief and loss.

Materials to participate: Pen and notepaper to write on.

Learn more about Reflection Room® and the Saint Elizabeth Foundation. 

 

Activity Spotlight: Anchoring Grief: A commemorative Collage Journey. With Heather Brown, Lead Therapist, Hospice Georgian Triangle. Anchoring Grief: A Commemorative Collage Journey

An exploration of the role of art therapy in the face of grief and how we can utilize collage as a medium to preserve memory and create a vision for the future.

With Heather Brown, BASc, DKATI, RP (Qualifying)
Lead Therapist, Hospice Georgian Triangle

Materials to participate: Scissors, Glue-stick, Paper, Magazines.

As your time together is short, Heather encourages attendees to take some time in advance of the webinar to choose soothing and nourishing images, such as: Pre-cut magazine images, greeting cards, sheet music, newspaper, photos or copies of photos of loved ones, recipes, pre-cut letters or words.

About Heather: Heather Brown is a Registered Canadian Art Therapist and a Registered Psychotherapist (qualifying) who has been working alongside individuals and their families within a Hospice setting for the last 8 years. Heather holds the believe that death and grief, though complex and difficult can also be a time when ones life can be celebrated, honoured and held with grace. Heather currently holds the position of Lead Therapist at Hospice Georgian Triangle in Collingwood, Ontario. Heather has a love for the rural way of life and a great appreciation for the waterfall that lulls her quiet village to sleep every night.

Activity Spotlight: I Just Showed Up Like Patch - with Heart, Humor, and Humanness. With Yvonne Heath.

 

I Just Showed Up Like Patch – with Heart, Humour, and Humanness

Let’s talk about the hard stuff and what makes it harder. Like why do we struggle to support ourselves and each other and how we can do better—no matter what life throws at us! Yvonne will also share what she learned on her recent Humanitarian Clowning Trip with the real Patch Adams about the power of just showing up, and of laughter.

With Yvonne Heath, Author and Founder of Love Your Life to Death and #IJustShowedUp

Materials to participate: A box; Markers; Pen; Paper; Some trinkets that warm your heart, make you smile, or laugh.

About Yvonne: In her 27 year nursing career, Yvonne Heath worked in many areas including emergency, chemotherapy, long-term care and hospice. She became disheartened by our society’s reluctance to talk about, plan and prepare for grief, transitions and end of life, causing excessive suffering. She wanted to create change. In 2015 she founded Love Your Life to Death and the I Just Showed Up Movement. Yvonne shares her message with Heart and Humour. She is most Passionate about: Supporting the Supporters and Creating Compassionate Communities. When not traveling, Yvonne and her husband Geordie (Jordy) can be found wearing socks and sandals at home in Huntsville, ON, with their cats, Calvin and Hobbes!

 

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