Working with loss and grief: till death do us art
This creative course explores death, loss and grief, its implications for therapy work, and the importance of self-care. On this course, you will have the opportunity to safely explore this important aspect of living, reflecting both on client work and on your own feelings and experiences.
Working with loss and grief: till death do us art
This creative course explores death, loss and grief, its implications for therapy work, and the importance of self-care. On this course, you will have the opportunity to safely explore this important aspect of living, reflecting both on client work and on your own feelings and experiences.
Why reflecting on death is important
Thoughts of death, loss and grief can be challenging. How do we work with a client’s grief? How do we manage our own grief in this process? What does a dying client bring to the work?
Following a global pandemic, when thoughts of death were ever present, clinicians need time and space to reflect on what death and dying mean for us, what impact they may have on therapy and on the therapeutic alliance, and how death and grief may play out within our clinical work.
It is important to consider your own relationship with grief; culturally, spiritually, personally, systemically and professionally. To be best placed to work with this most universal of life experiences we must take the time to explore own experiences.
For many clinicians, death and grief can understandably bring fear, paralleling responses of wider society – a shutting down rather than a widening of the discourse around this often difficult subject.
What you will learn
This short course will help clinicians to meet clients with open curiosity, compassion and confidence. It will support clinicians in welcoming grief as a natural process and also recognising when grief has become complex or pathological offering tools and frameworks to facilitate the therapy work.
After completing the course, you will have:
- A better understanding of a range of grief theories, de-pathologising the grief process.
- Awareness of your own relationship with grief and what this brings to the therapy work.
- Familiarity with frameworks and tools for working with grief and loss.
Tutors
Sharon Herriot and Bethan Bäez-Devine
Amazing training course – informative, reflective, exploratory and creative. I have thoroughly enjoyed it.
Frequently asked questions
Bookings for our online Introduction, Foundation, ARTiculate, CPD and Masterclass courses close one week before the start date, at 10.00am.
Joining instructions and materials will be available in your Memberzone, under bookings, once bookings have closed. A reminder email will be sent out to delegates one week before the course.
It is the attendees’ responsibility to check they have access to the joining instructions before the course. Contacting the office on the day or evening before the start date will not always be responded to prior to the course starting.
Employer funded bookings are available for our online Introduction, Foundation, ARTiculate, CPD and Masterclass courses.
These bookings can be made on our website by paying by card at no extra cost. The booking should be made on the delegate’s account as we will need their contact details for the course. If they don’t have an account they can create one for free here. The employer will be required to provide their credit/debit card details to complete the payment. Please also tick the employer funded option at checkout.
If your employer wants to pay by invoice, you will need to complete our Invoice Details Request – Course Booking Form, and return it to us along with a PO number. Please note, we cannot accept the form without a PO number. Please note, there is an additional £20 admin fee for bookings via invoice.
If you need further assistance, please contact us at events@baat.org.
Some of our courses are open to a wider range of professionals. Information about who each course is designed for can be found on the event page under ‘Who this course is for.’ If you are unsure about your eligibility, please contact us at events@baat.org.
Please note that our CPD courses are short training opportunities intended for ongoing professional development. While you may be able to attend even if you are not an art therapist, these courses do not provide a professional qualification and do not entitle you to use any protected professional title other than those for which you are already qualified.
In the UK, the titles ‘Art Therapist’ and ‘Art Psychotherapist’ are legally protected. Only those who have completed an HCPC-approved masters degree and are registered with the HCPC in that profession may use these titles. This requirement is set by UK law, not by BAAT. You can read more on the HCPC’s website.
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