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.
I had the honor of delivering the keynote at the JCBeCare and Support Alliance Symposium on the theme, “Towards a Compassionate Community: Call for Grief Literacy in Hong Kong.” My talk was titled Speaking Grief: Enhancing Grief Literacy Through Conversations About Loss.
It was an inspiring and moving event and it has been fascinating learning about the JCBeCare team’s work and research in this area.
The Jockey Club Bereavement Care and Support Alliance is part of the Department of Social Work and Social Administration at the University of Hong Kong. I had a lovely celebratory dinner with some of the team members to commemorate this first annual symposium.
I am thrilled to share that I will be speaking at the *JCBeCARE’s Symposium, “Towards a Compassionate Community: Call for Grief Literacy in Hong Kong” this May!
I’ll be delivering three talks:
-“Speaking Grief: Enhancing Grief Literacy Through Conversations About Loss”
-“Speaking Grief: How to Normalize, Navigate, and Support Loss”
-“Get Grief Out There: Leveraging Social Media to Enhance Awareness, Education, and Impact”
I’m honored to be part of the Alliance’s mission to promote grief literacy.
*The Jockey Club Bereavement Care and Support Alliance (JCBeCARE) is a project organized by the Department of Social Work and Social Administration of the University of Hong Kong, funded by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust. It aims to connect social service organizations and helping professionals in Hong Kong, so that bereaved people may receive necessary community and social support.
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Exciting news for the on-going quest to create a more grief-aware society:
To expand on WPSU’s forerunner multimedia project, Speaking Grief, Imagine Learning Foundation has awarded WPSU a $100,000 grant to support the creation of Learning Grief, a free website, supplemented with community workshops and at-home learning materials, that will teach understanding and skills to support grieving children. Bereavement is the most common, and often overlooked, trauma suffered by children, and closely tied to poor academic performance. Learning Grief will provide age-appropriate lessons to help children navigate emotions dealing with grief and teach families and communities how to recognize grief and support children to deal with this trauma.
It was an honor to sit on a panel at Comic-Con International San Diego alongside Jill A. Harrington, DSW, LCSW, Tashel Bordere, PhD, CT, Heather Stang, David Carey, and Brendan Sprout to share the healing work of Superhero Grief.
Check out this new promo for Speaking Grief, a multiplatform public media initiative produced by WPSU with philanthropic support from the New York Life Foundation that works to create a more grief-aware society. For more, visit speakinggrief.org.
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