Two-day Workshop:
Remembering Conversations with the Dying and Bereaved
Workshop Description
This Workshop would be Good for:
If death doesn’t mean saying goodbye, how are we
freed to grieve differently? Conversations will be
constructed using innovative ideas that challenge
prescriptive notions found in conventional grief
psychology. The workshop shall show how to
develop relational narratives that live on after a
physical death. We will practice numerous entry
points into conversations with people who are dying
and grieving, including discussions regarding
difficult and sudden deaths or the impact on grief
when a relationship was highly complicated.
Narrative conversations about death and grief are
less about the passive suffering of loss and more
about growing invigorating identity stories amid the
ongoing transitions that death occasions. Attending
this workshop will foster a sense or liveliness and
provide a new way to think about death and grief,
professionally and personally.
Counsellors, Psychologists, Nurses, Physicians,
Funeral Celebrants, Social Workers, Ministers,
Students, and those Interested in New Ideas
about Death, Dying and Bereavement.
3 Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will be introduced to narrative
concepts and re-membering practices.
2. Participants will be able to distinguish between
conventional bereavement conversations and
narratively informed conversations.
3. Participants will practice the construction of a
re-membering conversation and will achieve a
familiarity with important aspects to select for
effective conversations with bereaved people.
About the Facilitator
Lorraine Hedtke MSW, LCSW, Ph.D.
Lorraine teaches about death, dying and bereavement throughout the US and internationally. Her work
represents a departure from the conventional models of grief psychology that is exciting and unique. Her
articles have appeared numerous professional journals and magazines. She, along with John Winslade, is the
co-authors of the book “Remembering lives: conversations with the dying and the bereaved” (Baywood,
2004). Her children’s book, My Grandmother is Always with Me (2005), is written with her daughter, Addie.
Her new text, Breathing life into the stories of the dead: Constructing bereavement support groups (2012) is
available from Taos Publishing.
Lorraine is employed by California State University San Bernardino where she coordinates and teaches in a
graduate counseling program. She also is the founder of The Fabula Center, a counseling and training center
located in Southern California.
More information can be found about her work at her website: www.thefabulacenter.com
Date:
31 March (Tuesday) & 1 April (Wednesday) 2015
Time:
9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. (Registration at 9:00 a.m.)
Venue:
Room (To be confirmed)
Hong Kong Baptist University
Kowloon Tong
Fees:
Regular:
HK$1,200
Early Bird:
HK$1,100 (on or before 1 March 2015)
Member of BU SW Alumni Association: HK$960
Enquiry:
Tel: (852) 3411 7143 (Ms Kiwi Choi)
Fax: (852) 3411 6628
Email: [email protected]
Remarks:
1. Applications will be automatically accepted (on a first-come-first-serve
basis) unless the quota is full, and in that case applicants will be notified.
2. Fees are non-refundable.
3. If Storm Warning Signal No.8 or above, or Black Rainstorm Warning Signal
is hoisted, the workshop will be rearranged. Details of postponement or other
arrangements will be announced afterwards.
4. Receipts of application fees will be issued on the first day of Workshop.
For registration, please send the registration form together with a cheque made
payable to “Hong Kong Baptist University” to:
Centre for Youth Research and Practice
Rm. AAB1315
Academic and Administration Building
Hong Kong Baptist University
Kowloon Tong
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