Understanding your Bereavement (Cookstown)

NICS HR are working in partnership with Well and Cruse Bereavement Support to deliver Understanding your Bereavement Group Sessions. 

The next session will take place on:

Thursday 10 December 2026 from 9.30am to 11.30 am at: 

Room FIC 10, Food Technology Centre, Loughry Campus, 76 Dungannon Road, Cookstown, BT80 9AA

The session is available for any NICS staff who are dealing with a bereavement and can provide support to help you cope with your grief. 

If you are interested in attending this session, please register your interest below.

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 for Cruse Bereavement Support. 

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

Register HERE (external link opens in a new window / tab)