Understanding your Bereavement Group Sessions

NICS HR are working with CRUSE Bereavement Support to deliver Understanding your Bereavement Group Sessions. There are plans for 3 sessions, which will be held over different locations. The first session will take place in 2-4 Bruce Street, Belfast on Thursday 23 April 2026 from 10 am – 12 pm. 

Understanding your Bereavement:

Is a group session for up to 20 people per group, who have experienced a bereavement. The session will last for up to 2 hours and provides a safe and welcoming space to think about your own grief. It provides an overview of bereavement, looking at how it can impact you, how your life will grow around your grief and in many cases it helps normalise your grief and helps you understand what you are thinking or feeling is normal.  The session will be delivered by 2 experienced bereavement support staff who work in Cruse Bereavement Support. 

Attendees will increase their understanding about the journey of grief, explore feelings around loss and develop an understanding of what grief may mean for them as an individual. 

During the session, self-care and coping strategies will be shared to increase attendees’ ability to manage and cope with their bereavement, as well as building resilience for the future.

Session Objectives

• To provide support to those bereaved
• To increase, develop understanding, knowledge, coping strategies and building resilience

Areas that will be covered 

• How to define grief; 

• Increase your understanding of grief and how it can impact you and others; 

• Look at the different ways that we grieve; 

• Look at coping strategies, to help you as you grieve;

• Review self-care, what it looks like, what you would like it or need it to look like; 

• Look at existing support structures and what else you may require; 

• Information on supports and resources which may help; and

• The opportunity to ask questions. 

Aimed at

Any NICS employee who has experienced a bereavement

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