Expression of Interest for Understanding Suicide Loss, Grief and Bereavement
ACON and Life Rites will be delivering a series of peer-led, online and in-person workshops in 2025 after the success of our pilot workshops. The aim for the workshops is to centre LGBTQ+ communities with lived experience of suicide loss, grief and bereavement. These workshops will create a safe space that enables the sharing of resources, skills and knowledge.
These workshops will offer participants the opportunity for a deeper understanding of the complexity of suicide loss and grief by:
- Understanding how shock impacts us after a death by suicide. What the role of shock is and how we can support ourselves through this.
- Introducing the importance of funeral rites, rituals and ceremony and what they are designed and intended to give those whose person has died by suicide and community.
- Introducing some of the varied ways we grieve and offering tools and practices to support us as we navigate our grieving journey.
- Bringing our often isolated lived experiences into a communal and safe environment.
Who is the workshop for?
- Any LGBTQ+ community member who has been bereaved through suicide.
- Have lost someone to suicide with whom they had a close personal or culturally significant relationship with, such as a partner, chosen family, family member, a close friend or important community member for First Nations and culturally diverse communities.
- Are 18 years old and over.
- Reside in NSW.
ACON and Life Rites workshops are lived experience informed, designed and delivered by professional facilitators who also have a personal lived experience of suicide.
If you would like to attend Understanding Suicide Loss, Grief and Bereavement workshops for LGBTQ+ communities please complete the form and register here.
We will be offering in-person workshops in April 2025 and online workshops later in 2025. All dates to be confirmed in early 2025.
For further information or if you have any questions please email: suicideprevention@acon.org.au