St Oswald's Hospice Community Project Lead - Laura Barret, will be offering a fully funded Grief, Loss and Bereavement training session specifically to South Tyneside's VCSE organisations.

This 2 hour session will offer awareness and informed training for VCSE staff and volunteers on how to use the correct tools and communication skills to have confidence in dealing with the subject of death and the complexities around it.

You take away and learn how to:

• Listen with empathy and respond with compassion.
• Have meaningful conversations about grief and loss.
• Offer reassurance without feeling like you have to "fix" things.
• Signpost to helpful resources for further support.

The purpose of this training is to help community groups, charities and social enterprise organisations build up competence and confidence when dealing with grief and loss by increasing grief awareness and building skills to have compassionate conversations whether that be with other staff, clients or volunteers you work with. With 1% of the UK population dying each year, many people turn first to local charities, community groups, and VCSE organisations for help. Staff and volunteers often want to offer comfort, but aren’t always sure what to say or how best to support someone who’s grieving - This training will offer the best guidance for that.

This training is limited to 20 spaces only -

You must be a VCSE organisation part of Inspires or The South Tyneside Pledge Memberships.

This training is fully funded, so we ask each designated person booking onto this course to be dedicated to attending and engaging. If possible, we do ask for 48 hours’ notice if anyone needs to cancel. If a cancellation is going to occur, please can we ask you send someone else from your organisation in your space. 

South Shields Town Hall - Westoe Road - Thursday 26th February. 10-12.

Contact Niki or Barbara for further details:

Barbara Tennet (STC) Barbara.Tennet1@southtyneside.gov.uk