‘CARING FOR THE BEREAVED’ – LIVING WITH LOSS.

A One Day Workshop 10am-4pm. Saturday 13^th May 2023

AT CENTRAL HALL St Mary Street, Southampton. (entry via back door, sorry no parking at the church)

For more details or to book contact nicolasymes@hotmail.com

Cost £15

Refreshments provided but please bring your own lunch.

This course is designed to help empower people and churches to care for their own bereaved brothers and sisters, and non-Christians alike.

It will be helpful for anyone who finds themselves talking to bereaved people whether as a leader, pastorally, in their job or just as a friend. However, it may be rather challenging for someone who has had a major bereavement recently.

Speaker: Nicola Syme

Programme includes:-

• Self-awareness, loss and imaging grief.
• Factors affecting a bereavement and the place of faith.
• Models of grief – theory.
• Transitions and the ‘No-where zone’.
• Family dynamics an experiential exercise.
• Facilitating grief and ‘how not to help’
• Caring for yourself.

Nicola is a general Christian counsellor, working with a variety of issues, but specialising in bereavement in her private practice.

Her bereavement training was with Cruse-Bereavement Care and for 9 yrs she worked with them as counsellor and Referral Sec. She then trained as a Christian counsellor with CCTS ( Southampton), and heads up the Bereavement Support Team at New Community Church.

She is accredited and registered with the ACC and is a registered Deep Release counsellor. She also trains counsellors on this subject.

Before her retirement Nicola was a Registered Nurse and worked for 16yrs in terminal care at Countess Mountbatten House (an NHS Hospice).