Talking Compassionately about Death, Dying, and Bereavement

This training will build your confidence and insight to the differing expressions of grief responses following bereavement; and support you to convey compassionate responses, whilst demonstrating genuine understanding and support.

Course content: 

• Build confidence to communicate with compassion to those who are grieving, following bereavement.
• Consider grief in the context of your particular role.
• Establish our current understanding of grief’s purpose, explore processes and models that help individuals’ understanding of grief, including the residual impact of the pandemic.
• Increase understanding of how grief affects the way we function and communicate throughout the grief process
• Develop an understanding of compassionate conversations which in turn increase confidence in discussing grief themes.
• Consider the impact of working with grief themes and how to manage individual self-care and wellbeing.

Cruse Scotland utilises our learning content flexibly and efficiently to match your needs and we offer content across two learning environments; delivering this training either in person or online, for up to 12 delegates at a time.

All courses are delivered by one of our Training Team, who are professional trainers specialising in mental health, bereavement and trauma.

Health Warning:

As you would anticipate, the content of our courses discuss themes of death, dying and bereavement. Before registering for our training, we encourage all participants to consider their individual wellbeing needs, particularly those who have recently been bereaved or consider themselves as actively grieving.