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    Provider   Disability & Wellbeing Training

    Providing a compassionate response after a suicide bereavement

Duration 4 hours

Course Type Classroom

Booking Status Waiting List

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Target Audience: Everyone

This training is for anyone who has been bereaved by suicide but especially for those who have contact with those who have been bereaved by suicide

The Objectives for this session are:

  • Understanding grief and suicide bereavement
  • Providing a compassionate response
  • The impact of suicide bereavement work on staff
  • Resources and support for suicide bereavement

The training will focus on the following:

  • The impact of Suicide Bereavement
  • The Ripple effect of suicide
  • Complicated and Disenfranchised Grief
  • Language  and Emotions
  • Risks around Suicide 
  • How to look after yourself 

We will also take a moment to honour those people we have lost to suicide and to thank their loved ones for whom their sharing of their own feelings, emotions and loss has contributed to this training.



Delivered By: Disability and Wellbeing Staff

Prerequisites

Due to the subject matter the course facilitator will email you and ask for your contact number before the start of the training. This will only be used if there are safety concerns regarding your wellbeing.

Related Materials

After a Suicide-Scotland

Useful Links

Glasgow City Suicide Prevention Partnership support for people bereaved by suicide and for those supporting someone at risk of suicide: scoping study by Rocket Science UK Ltd