DIGGING, PLANTING AND GROWING. Henk Schut & Maggie Stroebe

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1 DIGGING, PLANTING AND GROWING Bereavement Research and Practice Association of Bereavement Service Coordinators Annual Conference 8 t h & 9 t h S e p t e m b e r Henk Schut & Maggie Stroebe Leeds Trinity University College Members: 260 Non Members: 325 Additional Overnight University Accommodation: 35.00* Includes refreshments and meals and overnight B&B accommodation (8th Sept) at Leeds Trinity University College *See Booking Conditions.

2 ABSCo Conference th & 9 th September 2015, Trinity University College, Leeds Digging, Planting & Growing : Bereavement Research and Practice Conference aims: Day One will be facilitated by Henk Schut and Maggie Stroebe from the Dept. of Clinical and Health Psychology, Utrecht University. The originators of the Dual Process Model will spend the day presenting and discussing their latest areas of research and thinking. Delegates will have plenty of opportunity to ask questions and about the digging the researchers have done, as they begin to identify the key ideas and seeds that have been planted that can influence and enhance our practice. On Day Two delegates will work together to dig deeper and explore further the implications of various aspects of the Utrecht research for their own practice. Delegates will also get the chance to cultivate and grow some of their ideas into practice through participation in workshops focusing on creative practice. Conference chair: Gillian Clark, Asst. Bereavement Coordinator, St Joseph s Hospice, Hackney Programme: DAY ONE 9:00 Registration 9:30 Welcome, Housekeeping, Introduction 9:45 Plenary 1 Maggie Stroebe & Henk Schut The Dual Process Model: Where is it heading? To include development of DPM for family context 11:15 Coffee 11:45 Small groups to identify questions 12:00 Questions & discussion 12:30 Lunch 1:30 Plenary 2 Henk Schut & Maggie Stroebe Grief intervention: What is research saying? To include findings from research with CRUSE in Scotland on assessment & the dimensionality of normal and pathological grief (DSM-5) combined with intervention studies 3:00 Questions & discussion 3:15 Tea 3:45 Seeds planted : identifying key ideas group exercise and feedback 4:15 Ideas Exchange: Spotlight on Practice 5:15 Close 6:00 Bar open 7:15 Evening meal

3 DAY TWO 8:00-9:00 Breakfast 9:15 AGM 10:30 Introduction to workshops 10:45 Coffee 11:15 Digging, Planting & Growing : facilitated workshops to explore implications for practice 12:15 Plenary feedback from workshops 12:45 Lunch 1:30 Growing - Choice of 4 creative workshops 3:00 Plenary: Closing exercise, evaluation, & ABSCo Chair s closing remarks 3:30 Close Speaker Biographies Henk Schut Henk Schut is a clinical psychologist and associate professor of Clinical and Health Psychology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. His research interests cover processes of coping with loss and the efficacy of bereavement care and grief therapy. Henk also works as a trainer for professionals (e.g. medical specialists, funeral directors) in dealing with bereaved people and he supervises post-academic clinical psychologists in their research projects. Henk is coauthor of a number of scientific and professional articles and books on grief, bereavement and death. Henk is one of the editors of Handbook of Bereavement Research (2001), Handbook of Bereavement Research and Practice (2009), both together with Maggie Stroebe, Wolfgang Stroebe and Bob Hansson and, together with Maggie Stroebe and Jan van den Bout, Complicated Grief: Scientific Foundations for Health Care Professionals (2012). Maggie Stroebe Margaret Stroebe is Professor at both the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Utrecht University, and the Department of Clinical Psychology and Experimental Psychopathology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She has specialized in the field of bereavement research for many years. With Henk Schut she developed the Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement. Her book publications include Bereavement in Later Life: Coping, Attachment, and Developmental Influences (2007) with Robert Hansson and an edited volume with Robert Hansson, Henk Schut and Wolfgang Stroebe: Handbook of Bereavement Research and Practice: Advances in Theory and Intervention (2009). Most recently she has edited Complicated Grief: Scientific Foundations for Health Care Professionals (with Henk Schut and Jan van den Bout). Her honors include an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, the Scientific Research Award of the American Association of Death Education and Counseling, in the U.S.A., and the title in 2011 of Officer of the Order of Orange Nassau, in the Netherlands.

4 WORKSHOPS DAY TWO 1:30-3:00 Workshops will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. Some workshops have maximum numbers so please make your booking soon as we are not able to guarantee that you will get your first choice of workshop. All workshops offer techniques that can be used or adapted for use with children and/or young people as well as adults. 1: Writing for wellbeing Jane Moss Jane will explain the difference between 'writing for wellbeing' and 'creative writing' and encourage you to try some techniques for yourself. We will look at triggers and prompts for journal writing and ways to use objects and photographs to stimulate writing that expresses thoughts, feelings and positive memories. Many of the writing exercises will be appropriate both for bereaved clients (individual and group) and for bereavement support volunteer and counsellors to use as part of their self-care. Please bring your pen and a notebook. Jane Moss is a writer who works in bereavement support. She provides training for counsellors, volunteers and others in the field, offering creative writing techniques as an aid to self-expression and grieving following bereavement. She is the author of Writing in Bereavement, A Creative Handbook, published by Jessica Kingsley. 2: What can I possibly say? Accessible Creative Approaches For Bereavement Counsellors Bob Heath As human beings we have always used creativity to help us express our most profound feelings; to celebrate our successes and to mourn our losses. In this workshop we will explore simple, accessible easy to use creative approaches such as Mandala drawing (the creation of freeform images whilst listening to carefully selected music) and Acrostics, which are a form of creative writing that has been used for centuries to help people explore meaning by focusing on a particular word or statement that feels significant. These techniques allow us to move more freely between the conscious and the unconscious and will often lead to important insights into our own current thinking and feeling states. With the use of case studies and practical examples the workshop will aim to equip practitioners with accessible and creative tools that can support clients who are often struggling to think the unthinkable or to say the unsayable. Bob Heath was the resident music therapist at Sobell House Hospice for over 10 years. He has worked extensively in Palliative and Bereavement care both as a clinician and a lecturer/teacher and also has many years of experience working in Dementia Care and Special Educational settings. He has published work in various books and journals and continues to practice as a therapist in End of Life care and in Community Mental Health settings. Bob has presented his work at a wide range of events including The Hay Literature Festival and Medicine Unboxed and continues to offer and develop a range of training courses for therapists and health care practitioners.

5 3: Responding to photographs Sally Despenser The first time a client showed me a photograph, I realised that I had no idea how to use the material therapeutically. Over the years, I have developed some useful ways of exploring what can be seen in a photo, what is hidden or absent, and what meaning the client puts on the picture. This workshop aims to develop awareness and responding skills so that when a client shows a photograph (or smartphone image), the counsellor/support worker can make full use of the possibilities. Working with these images provides a creative way of supporting the bereaved person, helping to draw out the story and the meaning of the lost relationship. Participants who sign up for this workshop will be invited to bring a few pictures of their own for exploration in small groups. Sally Dispenser currently works as a counsellor, supervisor and trainer in two end-of-life settings (Sobell House, and Oxford Maggie s) with patients, families, staff and volunteers. The work is both pre- and post-bereavement. Over the last 30 years Sally has worked as counsellor, supervisor and lecturer in a range of settings (Further and Higher Education, NHS, Palliative Care, Employee Assistance Programmes, private practice) in different parts of the UK. Her Masters Dissertation (1996) focused on the provision of counselling for adults in terminal care settings in the UK. She is a BACP Senior Accredited counsellor and supervisor. In recent years she has also been delivering Professional Development courses and developing e-learning material for BACP. As a freelance trainer she runs experiential and interactive workshops on a variety of topics. The idea of using photographs therapeutically grew out of an exhibition of postcards that she saw in : Storytelling Samantha Adams, Half Moon Theatre A creative expressive workshop where participants will hear an example of a therapeutic story around change and death. Participants will have the opportunity to experience storytelling techniques and reflect on their own experiences with bereavement. Samantha Adams is a professional Storyteller, with over 20 years experience in theatre, schools, charities and community arts venues with adults and children and recently with Richard House Children s Hospice. At Richard House, she has facilitated storytelling and creative expressive workshops with staff, parents, siblings and service-users. She is currently half-way through an MA in Dramatherapy at Roehampton University. For her MA, Sam has facilitated dramatherapy practice in a hospital for adolescents with Personality Disorder and is currently delivering individual and group therapy with pupils at an SEBD (Social, Emotional & Behavioural) school. She leads a mixed abilities Youth Theatre group for Half Moon Theatre and is an ongoing storytelling facilitator for Royal National Theatre, Unicorn Theatre and Primary Shakespeare Company. CPD includes training and delivery of stories with and for children with communication delay. Sam also enjoys gardening, travel and collecting stories. Half Moon Theatre is a small, vibrant organisation in Tower Hamlets, East London, which has been operating since The theatre is a centre of excellence and we specialise in using drama as a tool for learning and engaging with young people from birth to 18 (or 25 for disabled young people). Half Moon is a visionary organisation, striving to challenge, inspire and engage young people through participation in drama and through the professional plays created in consultation with young people. Access and inclusion for all is the thrust of the company s artistic ambitions. We run a range of projects with and for young people with disabilities, in schools and community centres and at our venue.

6 How to find the conference venue: From the M1 Northbound (M62 Westbound Junction 29 & M621) After the junction with the M62 the M1 becomes the M621. Continue on the M621, exit at Junction 2 and keeping to the left lane follow the signs for A58/Wetherby/York. Continue along this road (A643) and pick up the signs for the Airport. Follow the Airport signs until you join the A65 Ilkley/Skipton road out of Leeds. Continue for five miles passing Kirkstall Abbey on your left until you meet the Leeds Outer Ring Road (A6120) at a large roundabout with the Esso Garage on your right. Take the 3 rd exit off this roundabout onto the A6120 heading towards York. Continue along this road until you reach a set of traffic lights. The College is signposted here. Turn left into Fink Hill. Continue for one mile to arrive at a roundabout. Take the 2 nd exit onto Brownberrie Lane and Leeds Trinity is located on the left approximately half a mile along this road. From the M62 Eastbound Leave the M62 at junction 26 to join the M606 towards Bradford. At the terminus roundabout of the M606 take the 4 th exit to join the A6177 Bradford Ring Road towards Leeds/Bradford Airport. Continue over two roundabouts and at the junction with the A647 turn right towards Leeds. Proceed on the A647 to the roundabout junction on the Leeds Ring Road and turn left onto the A6120. Continue straight over a further two roundabouts and at the traffic lights turn left onto Fink Hill. Continue for one mile to arrive at a roundabout. Take the 2 nd exit into Brownberrie Lane and Leeds Trinity is located on the left approximately half a mile along this road. From the A1 (&NE) Southbound Leave the A1 at Wetherby to join the A58 to Leeds. On reaching the A6120(Ring Road) turn right and continue over three roundabouts. At the fourth roundabout turn right (notice the college signpost) onto Low Lane. Continue to a T junction ( Horsforth Station entrance faces you). Turn left to reach a roundabout. Take the 3 rd exit onto Brownberrie Lane and the college is located on the left approximately half a mile along this road. From Leeds City Centre Follow the Airport signs onto the A65 Ilkley/Skipton road out of Leeds. Continue for five miles passing Kirkstall Abbey on your left until you meet the Leeds Outer Ring Road (A6120) at a large roundabout with the Esso Garage on your right. Take the 3 rd exit off this roundabout onto the A6120 heading towards York. Continue along this road until you reach a set of traffic lights. Leeds Trinity is signposted here. Turn left into Fink Hill. Continue for one mile to arrive at a roundabout. Take the 2 nd exit onto Brownberrie Lane and the college is located on the left approximately half a mile along this road. By Train Horsforth Station is on the Leeds to Harrogate line. alternatively you may wish to take a taxi from Leeds Station. Leeds Trinity University Brownberrie Lane, Leeds LS18 5HD Tel: Additional Overnight accommodation may be booked direct with Leeds Trinity University at a cost of pn by calling the telephone number above.