General Bereavement Support Group:
The General Bereavement Support Group is offered to adults who have lost a loved one. The group meets once a week for eight weeks. Each week a different aspect of grief work is shared and discussed. Topics include emotional responses to loss; how to tend to "unfinished business" with the loved ones; loneliness and depression; readjusting to reality.
Living with Loss Widow/Widower's Support Group:
The loss of a spouse effects us physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.
An 8 week support group is offered to Widows and Widowers. The support group deals with feelings and issues of loneliness, despondency, helplessness, emptiness, hopelessness, fear, anger, guilt, acceptance, living alone, self-reliance and making new friends.
In the Aftermath of Suicide: Surviving and Healing
The death of anyone we care about causes intense feelings of loss and grief. Loss through suicide, however, is particularly devastating to those close to the individual.
Survivors of suicide commonly share feelings such as: shock and dismay; guilt; fear related to a sense of loss of control, abandonment or inability to relate to the event; horror and sense of terror at actual event of suicide; anger or feeling rejected/abandoned; physical sensations of grief; nightmares and flashbacks.
This support group is opened to people who have lost a loved one to suicide. The group runs for 8 weeks.
Stress Management & Grief Workshops
The loss of a loved one takes tremendous toll, both emotionally and physically. This 4 week workshop will teach methods to alleviate the various manifestations of stress during the grieving period.
Starting Over
A support group for those who are divorced or
separated. This group meets weekly to discuss
topics such as dating, feelings of betrayal and Loss.
Individual Transitions & Group Support Services
One-to-one support services are available to anyone
experiencing grief, bereavement or transition in
their lives. Please call The Center for New
Beginnings for more information.
The Healing Heart Program
This program focuses on the despair and grief of teenagers and younger children and its impact on the
surviving adult. There are two components to this program -- The Healing Heart Children's Program and
The Healing Heart Parent's Program. The objects of both programs are to identify the pain and feelings
associated with loss; provide appropriate tools to cope with the loss and the feelings; provide support for
parents and children to work through their feelings.
Healing Heart Children's Program
Once grief strikes a child, the child may feel there is no safe place. No one seems to understand that the
child is hurting. This is a 6 week grief support program for children ages 4 to 16 who have experienced the
death of a relative or friend. In three different age-related groups children participate in various activities
and discussions focusing on the death of their loved one.
Healing Heart Parent's Program
This is an educational support group that specifically addresses the concerns and problems associated with
Parenting a grieving child. When the death of a loved one affects a child, parenting issues and challenges
are encountered that most adults are not prepared to handle. These issues and challenges may present
themselves when a child loses a sibling, friend, grandparent or other relative. When the loss is one of the
child's parents, the surviving parent has enormous tasks and grief issues to deal with. This 8-week support
group will assist parents to understand a child's grief process, how to address their questions of death, and
feelings of loss, insecurity and uncertainty and how to face the future in light of the loss.
The Grieving Child in the Classroom
This seminar is designed to assist school
administrators, educators, and counselors to better
understand and meet the needs of children who have
experienced a meaningful loss in their lives,
Whether grief affects only one child, a classroom or
an entire student body.
Topics to be discussed include: the normal, long-term grief process of children, according to age; how concrete versus abstract thinking and magical thinking affects the grief process; warning signs that indicate a complicated grief process; when suicide affects a school, and tools to help children through the grief process.
Pre-registration is required for this 2.5 hour seminar.
A nominal fee is assessed.
Understanding & Caring: An Educational
Support Group for the Caregivers and Loved
Ones of Memory Loss Patients
A unique support group for everyone caring for or
who are concerned about a loved one with
memory loss. These individuals need special
support resources and knowledge to strengthen
them in their role as a caregiver or concerned
family member. This program provides current
information on medical research, treatment and
available resources, as well as offers emotional
support. This group will be held once a week for
8 weeks. Professional care is provided for the
memory loss patient.
For further information about the grief resources and services we provide, or for answers to your questions, simply give us a call, or complete and return the form below.
(Of course, there is no cost or obligation)
E-mail us: info@parksidechapels.com