Learning Grief: Helping Kids Navigate the Big Feelings That Come with Loss

Learning Grief: Helping Kids Navigate the Big Feelings That Come with Loss

Most of us weren’t taught how to navigate the big feelings that come with loss. So how are we supposed to guide the kids and teens in our lives to support a peer through loss? Here’s the good news: these are learnable skills. By normalizing the big feelings that come with loss and teaching kids how to support their peers through tough times, you can have a major impact on the young people in your life.

On May 22, I hosted the webinar “Learning Grief: Helping Kids Navigate the Big Feelings That Come with Loss.”

In this webinar, experts:

  • discuss how death and non-death losses can impact kids
  • explore differences between child grief and adult grief
  • describe how you can coach and model healthy coping and relational skills
  • share strategies for how you can guide the young people in your life to offer meaningful support to their peers

Promoting Learning Grief

Promoting Learning Grief

I was delighted to have the opportunity to promote Learning Grief in an interview for 98.7 in State College.

Listen here.

launched! Learning Grief is a free online resource that helps adults help kids and teens navigate the big feelings that come with loss.

Learning Grief is produced by WPSU and is made possible with funding provided by the Imagine Learning Foundation. It’s a sister-initiative to Speaking Grief.

Speaking Grief: How to Normalize, Navigate, and Support Loss

Speaking Grief: How to Normalize, Navigate, and Support Loss

I delivered a public talk titled “Speaking Grief: How to Normalize, Navigate, and Support Loss” to an audience at the University of Hong Kong. The talk was translated into Cantonese and followed by a Q&A. It was hosted by the Jockey Club Bereavement Care and Support Alliance. JCBeCare is part of the Department of Social Work and Social Administration at the University of Hong Kong.