Bereavement: working at Greater Depth.

Experiential, Dynamic & Theory Driven CPD, exploring stuck grief. Practical tools & EFT informed skills for confident bereavement work.
About this Event

Join Mersey Mind CPD for an experiential, dynamic, and theory driven full day workshop exploring how to support clients through complex grief. This practical training blends counselling theory with Emotion‑Focused Therapy principles, helping practitioners deepen emotional connection while maintaining therapeutic safety. Through interactive discussion and live experiential exercises, you’ll learn to recognise patterns of stuck grief, integrate EFT informed techniques, and hold space for intense emotion with confidence and care. Designed for counsellors, Therapists, and trainees seeking to expand their clinical skillset, this workshop offers a reflective, hands on approach to understanding loss and facilitating healing.

· Grief theoretical models, lived experience, and beyond

· How we grieve: patterns, styles, emotional processes.

· How grief becomes complicated: and why clients get stuck.

· Helping the helpless: working with powerlessness and emotional overwhelm

· Permissions to do more: Emotion‑Focused Therapy approaches to accessing and processing emotion.

· Moving forward and letting go: supporting clients into deeper emotional territory safely.

· Breaking patterns: practical answers and real‑life therapeutic tools.

· Working with complexity: navigating ambivalence, looping, and emotional blocks.

· Debriefing and integrating the work: grounding, reflection, and next steps.

This workshop is designed for counsellors, Therapists, psychotherapists, trainees, and mental‑health practitioners who want to deepen their confidence and skill when working with grief.

Held at the Liverpool Quaker Meeting House, a calm and accessible city centre venue. Attendees also receive 20% off parking at Q‑Park Hanover Street.

Agenda

🕑: 09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Welcome & group contracting. setting expections
🕑: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Grief - Theoretical models, lived experience and beyond
🕑: 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Break
🕑: 11:15 AM - 12:00 AM
How we grieve, How grief becomes complicated, Helping the helpless,
🕑: 12:00 AM - 12:45 AM
Lunch
🕑: 12:45 AM - 01:00 AM
Welcome back, moving forward, letting go
🕑: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Moving into complex and sense of powerlessness
🕑: 02:00 PM - 02:15 PM
Break
🕑: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM
Breaking patterns, practical answers, real life tools
🕑: 03:15 PM - 03:30 PM
Debriefing, moving forwards
🕑: 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Q&A
🕑: 04:00 PM - 04:00 PM
END