Understanding Suicide Loss, Grief and Bereavement Workshops
Tuesday, 05 Nov 2024
ACON and Life Rites will be delivering a series of four peer-led, online and in-person 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 bereavement 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 and what they are designed and intended to give those whose person has died by suicide so as to lay the foundation for healthy grieving.
- 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.
First online series
Dates: Tuesdays 5, 12, 19 and 26 November
Time: 6pm-8:15pm
Location: On Zoom
Who is the workshop for?
- Any LGBTQ+ community member who have been bereaved through suicide.
- Have lost someone to suicide with whom they had a close personal relationship such as a partner, chosen family, family member or a close friend.
- 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 online workshops for LGBTQ+ communities please complete the form below. If you are not available for the first online series, please continue to register your interest as we will be offering in-person workshops in April-May 2025.
For further information please email: suicideprevention@acon.org.au.