UPCOMING SCREENINGS OF A LOVE THAT NEVER DIES
The following screenings are all online so you can register from anywhere in the world. Join us from the comfort of your own sofa to watch the film and add your voice to the discussions. The film is 75 minutes and we normally allow 30 minutes for the Q&A afterwards. The Centre for Complicated Grief, […]
BEYOND THE MASK and other news
We hope you are well and finding wonderfully creative things to do during this extraordinary if unsettling period of our lives. The Covid pandemic has brought a high level of distress and anxiety but at the same time shed much needed light on some of the systemic inequities in our society particularly along the lines […]
Grief during a time of Covid-19
As we write this, the death toll from Covid-19 in the UK as risen above 18,000, probably much more given that the government statistics only includes deaths in hospitals. The figure does not take into account those that die in their own home, or more significantly, residents of the thousands of care homes up and down […]
A New Decade …
Ten years ago we celebrated the New Year and a new decade in New York. This was 2009/10 and the last time we saw in the New Year as a complete family – together. The next winter our son Josh was on his travels in South East Asia. On Christmas Day he phoned us from somewhere in […]
To walk a mile ….
To walk a mile …. “Do we ever truly understand the perspective of the bereaved parent? Let’s face it. It’s impossible to walk a yard never mind a mile in the shoes of a bereaved parent. As police officers we need to understand the impact of bereavement better”. Detective Chief Superintendent Andrew Webster (Head of Serious Crime, […]
Lizzie Pickering joins The Good Grief Project!
As many will know the core team at The Good Grief Project has been joined by Lizzie Pickering. Lizzie and Jane will be working together to deliver a range of talks and presentations to illuminate a proactive approach to grief. Lizzie comes to this work as we have. She too is a bereaved parent. In […]
GRIEF ACTUALLY
Grief Actually – yes grief actually is love actually! And here’s a short video we made following our first ACTIVE GRIEF WEEKEND Retreat last May. The weekend was so successful and we now have two more planned, the first from 16ht to 18th November again at Charney Manor and the second at Manifold Farm in […]
UPCOMING EVENTS – autumn 2018
A Family of Five at the Premiere of A LOVE THAT NEVER DIES at The Prince Charles Theatre, Leicester Square May 2018. L – R Joe, Rosa, Josh, Jimmy, Jane. Our calendar is full. A brief lull in our activities after our UK screening tour for A LOVE THAT NEVER DIES which premiered at the […]
10 things a bereaved parent wants you to know about grief
When Josh died we moved from one world into another. From a known and certain world to one where previous ambitions and assumptions about what we wanted from life, from our friends and from those we love, were thrown into total confusion. In the seven years since Josh’s death we have found (in common with many other […]
A NEW FILM IN THE MAKING
I GRIEVE THEREFORE I SWIM It started with the idea of trying to evoke a sense of what means to be suspended in a world of very cold water. What this meant for me as I grieve the death of my son and how with this new addiction I have found the space to search […]
