GriefShare
starting this September at SGCC
Where?
Spring Green Community Church
151 E. Bossard Street
Spring Green. WI 53588
Phone: 608-588-2442
Facilitators: Rita Marit and Rose Ellen
Schneider
Session Dates:
Start Date: Tuesday, September 11,
2007 from 7 - 9 p.m.
Session ends for break with Remembrance Night: Tuesday, Decemenber
17, 2007.
Session will resume: Tuesday, January 8, 2008 from 7 - 9 p.m.
through some time in Spring.
Cost:
The cost is $15.00 which includes a
weekly journal. Scholarships are available. Registration is
not required but helpful. Contact the church office at 608-588-2442
with any questions or for futher information.
GriefShare
is a support group for those who have suffered a recent loss
and for those who's loss may have been several years in the
past. Each person experiences grief in an unique way and in
their own time.
The
Grief Share program features video discussions of the grief
journey by some of the nation's foremost experts on grief
recovery. Each session is designed to allow time to discuss
the the video information and each participant's journey through
the grief process.
Session Topics
The first session introduces you to
GriefShare. It also explains what living with grief is like,
why you shouldn’t be ashamed of your grief and why you
shouldn’t rush through your healing.
The next sessions are as follows:
This session prepares you for what
to expect along the journey of grief. At the same time, it
emphasizes that everyone’s journey is unique and warns
against comparing grief experiences.
You’re probably surprised at how debilitating grief
is. This session explains that this is normal and suggests
practical ways to find comfort.
If you’ve lost your spouse, this session helps you think
through the critical issues involved in your healing. It also
begins preparing you to face the difficult transition into
a new reality without your spouse.
This session shares how to keep your family afloat when its
members are drowning in grief. It also presents some of the
unique issues involved if you’re grieving the death
of a child.
Just because God doesn’t answer all of your questions
doesn’t mean He won’t answer any of them. This
session answers the “Why” questions and encourages
you to begin asking other questions as well.
This session explores how the causes of, and your responses
to, your loved one’s death affect your grief. Topics
addressed include suicide, long-term illness, murder and false
guilt.
Relationships, past and present, affect your grief. This session
helps you address insensitive comforters and unresolved conflict
with a deceased loved one.
The bereaved are often overwhelmed by the advice they receive
from others. And often, what goes unnoticed is what God says
about healing. This session tells you how to position yourself
to experience God’s healing.
It’s easy to get stuck along the journey of grief, This
session explains how to keep moving on the path to healing.
In this session, those who’ve walked the journey of
grief will share what they’ve learned and how they’ve
grown from their grief experience.
In this session you’ll hear the most significant lessons
that can be learned during grief.
This session gives practical advice on how to tap into, and
hold onto, the source of hope in this disappointing world.
This session explains how a child’s grief differs from
that of adults, and it prepares you to respond to grieving
children with sensitivity.
GriefShare for
Kids - Session 14
This session explains how a child’s grief differs from
that of adults, and it prepares you to respond to grieving
children with sensitivity. Note: This session maybe shown
at a special time or slipped in between Session 5 and Session
6 depending on what participants want.
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