Grief impacts on the emotional, physical, spiritual and psychological well-being of the person who is bereaved. Ian Leech who will be leading this virtual session, is the Community Engagement Manager at St Giles hospice. His role is to enable communities to have a better understanding about end of life care and bereavement support. Ian has successfully run Understanding Bereavement workshops in business and community groups as well as developing workshops for Hospice UK Compassionate Employers Programme.

The workshop will explore:

• How Grief can affect people
• Secondary Losses and their impact
• Hints and tips for supporting children
• Supporting Staff in the workplace
• What to say/not to say
• Behaviours associated with grief
• The importance of signposting
• Self awareness - who supports the supporter?