Date: Please contact us for bespoke training dates for your organisation

Price: £150 per person

Where: via Zoom or your workplace if local

Suitable for: Any business or organisation

Dying Matters Awareness Week is very close to our hearts here at St Wilfrid’s Hospice. This year it ran from 8^th to the 14^th May 2023 and the focus, for the first time, was Dying Matters at work. We will offer this training, due to its importance, for the rest of 2023 so please do not hesitate to contact us.

‘When we’re affected by illness, caring for someone close to us, or have lost a loved one – we need support. We need time and space, and we need those around us to recognise what we are facing and know what to do.

Stigma around grieving, and a lack of understanding about what it means to be ill and what happens when you’re dying, mean that too many of us are struggling to cope when faced with life’s inevitable challenges. And the workplace is no exception.

If we live in a society where we are scared to talk about death, we don’t understand dying or refuse to talk about grief, then how can we react with compassion when our colleagues, peers, and friends need support?’ (Hospice UK, 2023).

This year we are running Introduction to supporting bereaved people at work for our local businesses and community. The content will include:-

1. Overview of grief and bereavement

2. Strategies to support a bereaved person

3. Tips to support a bereaved/distressed person.

Our reason for running this –

57% of employees will have experienced a bereavement in the last five years and every day, more than 600 people quit work to look after older and disabled relatives.

And yet, fewer than one in five managers feel very confident supporting someone they manage with a bereavement.

Feedback from a local business:-

‘The idea of supporting a bereaved or grieving colleague can be daunting, but the training from St Wilfrid’s was full of practical tips, strategies and resources, based on their huge experience of supporting people in distress. The training session has given me confidence that I can help, and much of the training is applicable to everyday life, too – from listening skills to the importance of empathy, I feel far better equipped to communicate more effectively, and to really help and support my friends, family and colleagues.

This was one of the most effective uses of two hours that I can remember – I learnt so many tips and strategies for supporting others, and I have a much better understanding of the process of grief and bereavement’ (Sarah, Motorsport Marketing Executive, Goodwood, February 2023)

Please contact us education@stwh.co.uk for further details and arrangments for bespoke training.