Online Seminars on Grief Literacy - Seminar 5: Grief Literacy in the UK, equipping people for life’s biggest adventure, Bianca Neumann-Morris UK
The purpose of this series of online seminars is to bring the concept of Grief Literacy to life by highlighting its various aspects and broad impact. There are seven one-hour seminars planned with international leaders in the field of Grief Literacy research and practice between September 2024 and March 2025. Each seminar will involve 30 minutes of presentation followed by 30 minutes of questions and dialogue. This seminar on 14 January 2025 is the fifth seminar.
Seminar 5: Grief Literacy, societal impact
Sue Ryder, the leading UK palliative care and bereavement charity has built a multi-level, multi-systems approach to palliative care and bereavement. We apply the 95% rule to everything we do, equip the 100% and provide for the 5%. Our Grief Kind campaign, a national movement of kindness around grief, aims to open up conversations about grief and give people the tools and resources they need to support each other. Through our public health approach to grief literacy we have delivered Grief Kind podcasts, training and webinars and secured numerous radio interviews and articles in the national, regional and consumer press.
In this presentation, I will showcase how Sue Ryder is leading the way in equipping people to support themselves and each other through grief.
Speaker: Assistant Director of Bereavement at Sue Ryer, Psychologist and bereavement expert, fellowship in palliative care, PhD candidate at the renowned end-of-life observatory at Lancaster University, finalist at NHS innovation awards, presented internationally on bereavement.
Registration
Attendance at this seminar is free
More information and registration for other seminars go to the overview below.
Background Series of online Seminars on Grief Literacy
Grief and loss are fundamentally human experiences, touching on a very universal and existential layer of life. Yet there is great embarrassment in societies around this topic. Grief Literacy is a concept coined in 2020 by a sub-group of the International Workgroup for Death Dying Bereavement (IWGDDB). Grief Literacy is: a) The capacity to access, process, and use knowledge regarding the experience of loss. b) This capacity is multidimensional: it comprises knowledge to facilitate understanding and reflection, skills to enable action, and values to inspire compassion and care. c) These dimensions connect and integrate via the interdependence of individuals within socio-cultural contexts (Breen et al., 2020). The transformative value of the concept consists in making visible the extent to which current societies or cultures avoid grief and helping us to formulate new strategies to address it. Specifically, it addresses a lack of appropriate compassionate responses to people in mourning.
The purpose of this series of online seminars is to bring the concept of Grief Literacy to life by highlighting its various aspects and broad impact. We hope this series will contribute to a greater awareness and sensitivity of how people respond to their own grief or the grief of others, and will lead to an increase in the compassionate support of ordinary people among themselves.
Information
There are seven one-hour seminars planned with international leaders in the field of Grief Literacy research and practice between September 2024 and March 2025. Each seminar will involve 30 minutes of presentation followed by 30 minutes of questions and dialogue. The seminars will be held online and are intended for a broad audience, including students, PhDs, staff, volunteers, citizens, and interested professionals/parties from (grief) networks or care institutions.Collaboration
Together we invest in a more grief literate society. This is a collaboration between the following universities, organisations and institutes:
- Informal care & Care ethics, University for Humanistic Studies, the Netherlands
- Compassionate Communities Centre of Expertise (COCO) at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
- Curtin University Perth, Australia
- Policy Science Unit, Kyoto University School of Medicine, Japan
- Agora, knowledge and development organization: social approach to palliative care, the Netherlands
- Department of Human Centered Design, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
- Pharos, Dutch Centre of Expertise on Health Disparities, Netherlands
- The Local Social Policy Unit for City and PCSW Bruges, Belgium
- Centre of Expertise Perspective in Health, Avans University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
- Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- School of Social Work, Renison University College, affiliated with the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Social Work and Social Administration, Faculty of Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
- Caring connections: A Hope and Comfort in Grief Program. University of Utah College of Nursing
- Sue Ryder
| Topic | Speaker | Date |
| Seminar 1 | Lauren Breen Curtin University Australia | 24 SEPTEMBER 2024 2 PM CET Amsterdam timezone |
| Seminar 2 | Mary Ellen Macdonald Halifax, Canada | 15 OCTOBER 2024 2 PM CET Amsterdam timezone |
| Seminar 3 | Susan Cadell Ontario, Canada | 19 NOVEMBER 2024 2 PM CET Amsterdam timezone |
| Seminar 4 | Carl Becker School of Medicine Kyoto University Japan | 4 DECEMBER 2024 2 PM CET Amsterdam timezone |
| Seminar 5 Grief Literacy in the UK, equipping people for life’s biggest adventure | Bianca Neumann-Morris UK | 14 of JANUARY 2025 2 PM CET Amsterdam timezone |
| Seminar 6 | Kathie Supiano Salt Lake City, VS | 20 February 2025 4 PM CET Amsterdam timezone |
| Seminar 7 Measuring and Quantifying Grief Literacy: Towards a Grief Literacy Index | Yong Hao Ng Hong Kong | 25 MARCH 2025 10 CET Amsterdam timezone |
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| Contact person | Anne Goossensen |
| Location | online |
| griefliteracy@uvh.nl | |
| Date | 14/1/2025 |
| Opening hours | 2PM CET Amsterdam timezone |