As we move through this pandemic, it is even more important we take care of our Support Workers so that they feel more at ease with talking about life, death and loss with the people they support.

Interactive online workshops: 

We are offering online workshops for Support Workers and others (who support people with a learning disability and/or autism) to explore how we talk with people about life and death, using a range of resources including the new downloadable resource: ‘Cards on life, death and loss’ created by Jo Giles and Claire Lam.  

The workshops are run as 2 online workshops facilitated by Jo Giles and Sally Warren. The first workshop is on our own attitudes around death and the second is a more practical workshop sharing a range of resources and tips for engaging in conversations. 

“I took away to be brave and go with my gut feeling and not to be afraid to talk about Death and Dying. It was great looking at the cards and how we could use these in our role to support members around Death dying and grief. It was so important to recognise when it would be appropriate to use the cards or to simply open up a conversation to gently approach death and dying to see how members feel about talking about this.”