Beyond Bereavement: Counselling Skills for Complex & Disenfranchised Grief

• Date: Monday 13 October, 2025
• Venue: The Blinco Room at The Walsall Hub, 1902 Green Lane, Birmingham, WS2 8HE
• Time: 10:00am – 3:00pm
• Lunch: Includes lunch and refreshments

Grief is never simple, and not all losses are openly recognised or supported. This one-day workshop offers practical counselling skills to help you support people experiencing bereavement, complex grief, and disenfranchised losses such as miscarriage, suicide, overdose, or the loss of a former partner.

Led by Clare Spiers from People Boost, who specialises in grief support, the day combines theory with real-world application to build your confidence in working with grief in its many forms.

This training is not just for counselling professionals, but for anyone who works with or cares for people facing grief—community workers, health and social care staff, faith leaders, and volunteers.

• Foundations of grief counselling: models and approaches (Worden’s Tasks, Dual Process Model, Continuing Bonds)
• How to recognise and support disenfranchised grief
• Cultural and faith perspectives on grief, mourning, and rituals
• Understanding grief within homeless and vulnerable populations
• Practical skills to respond with compassion and confidence

• Counsellors, trainee therapists, and health professionals
• Community and charity workers
• Faith and pastoral leaders
• Educators and frontline staff
• Anyone supporting people through loss

Restoration Therapy, a counselling clinic based in Walsall, is dedicated to equipping people with the skills to offer compassionate, informed support in life’s most difficult moments. This training is delivered in partnership with Clare Spiers from People Boost, a specialist in grief support. For more information, visit www.restorationtherapy.co.uk or email [email protected].

Info: - Welcome & Introductions
- Foundations of Grief Counselling
- Working with Disenfranchised Grief

Info: - Grief and Bereavement in Different Cultures and Faiths
- Grief in Homeless or Vulnerable Populations
- Closing Reflections

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Walsall Hub, 1902 Green Lane, Walsall, United Kingdom