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24th
November: Re-membering Lives: A workshop for practitioners working with grief & loss Lorraine Hedtke & John Winslade Death is a fact of everyone’s lives and grief leaves no one aside. The ideas taught at this workshop are drawn from narrative therapy and emphasise ongoing relationships. This workshop will show how to help people during the challenges that grief brings in ways that do not require any working through of stages or tasks, that do away with the idea of ‘saying goodbye,’ and that displace notions of ‘closure’ and ‘completing unfinished business’. We will examine commonly held assumptions around death and dying that do not serve the continuation of our stories and may even be harmful. Through a narrative model, we shall concentrate on how to develop relational and personal narratives that live on long after a physical death. A narrative perspective can inspire invigorating and appreciative conversations that promote re-membering and keep loved ones’ stories close, long after death has occurred. The workshop will aim to construct death and grief as a period of relational transition rather than as ultimate finality. Lorraine Hedtke specializes in working with people who are dying and families after a loved one has died. She is employed by VITAS Innovative Hospice Care as a Bereavement Services Manager for the Inland Empire in California. She regularly teaches around the USA and internationally about death, dying and bereavement and narrative therapy. Her articles have appeared in numerous professional and trade publications and newspapers. Lorraine was a national panelist for the Hospice Foundation of America’s 14th Annual Teleconference: “Living with Grief: Before and After Death”. She is the author, along with John Winslade, of the book, Re-membering Lives: Conversations with the dying and the bereaved (Baywood, 2004). Her children’s book, My grandmother is always with me, is co-authored with her daughter, Addison. John Winslade is a Professor and Coordinator of Educational Counseling Programs at California State University San Bernardino. He was previously Director of Counselor Education at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. He has a particular interest in how narrative and social constructionist ideas can enhance the resourcefulness of people and of communities. In addition to Re-membering Lives, John Winslade is the co-author of six other books on narrative therapy and narrative mediation, as well as many articles and book chapters. He conducts numerous workshops and has made conference presentations on narrative practice in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Cyprus, Israel, the UK, Russia, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands. Back to conference
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