Is this course right for me?
Target Audience: Open to anyone
Grief can feel overwhelming and navigating it alone can be isolating. Our 4-week grief support group, provides a structured, supportive environment for individuals to process their grief at their own pace. Each week, we'll address different aspects of grief, provide helpful tools, and create a space for reflection, self-care, and connection.
Please watch this space for new dates when the group will be run in semester two.
The sessions will be run in -
The Wellbeing Room
Disability and Wellbeing Service
Level 4, Mary Dunn Wing
Learning & Teaching Building
55 Richmond Street
Glasgow
G1 1XQ
Topics will include:
Understand the grief process and common reactions.
- Establish group guidelines and confidentiality.
- Reflect on personal experiences of loss and who we grieve for
- Learn how to cope with overwhelming emotions.
- Explore strategies for emotional regulation.
- Reframe unhelpful thought patterns.
- Discover self-care strategies that support emotional well-being.
- Reflect on personal self-care practices.
- Understand how grief affects physical health, including sleep disturbances and fatigue.
- Explore exercise and movement as ways to process grief.
- Reflect on the importance of activity scheduling and self-care.
- Address feelings of isolation and loneliness
- Learn how to rebuild a support system after a loss.
- Explore ways to memorialize and maintain a connection with your loved ones.
- Discover how continuing bonds can help with healing.
Delivered By: Karen Lafferty and Marie Stewart
Prerequisites
You must be able to attend in person, preferably all 4 sessions. Booking a session then cancelling or not showing, prevents others from obtaining a place so please only book if you will be able to attend.What if I change my mind?
Its fine to decide not to proceed, but please just let us know in advance so we can offer your space to someone else.