Sudden and Unexpected Loss

Sudden and Unexpected Loss

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Friday 21 May 2021

A Live Webinar with Lisa Forrell, Cathy Rentzenbrink, Julia Samuel, and Dr Lucy Selman

  • Includes a recording of the event with access for a year (14 days post the event)
  • Bookings close at 9.00am BST Tuesday 18 May

In this conversation we bring together a panel of distinguished academics, writers, and psychotherapists to explore together the many ways that the death of a loved one can be accommodated in order to free the bereaved to continue to live their lives.

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FULL PROGRAMME

10:00 BST (05.00 EDT)
Introductions

10:05
Julia Samuel in Conversation
The client’s loss and the therapist’s vitality

In this interview with Alice Jacobs Waterfall, Julia Samuel will use her 30-year experience as a psychotherapist specialising in grief to talk about clients who have experienced sudden and unexpected loss. She will discuss the importance of maintaining her own vitality while offering therapeutic empathy to those who are bereaved by traumatic death. Offering theories that she has found most supportive when a client’s trauma might otherwise render her powerless, she will describe the habits she has developed over the years to enable her to stay sane and fully engaged in her own life.

10:45
Q&A

11:00
Break

11.15
Lisa Forrell
Coming out of grief
Grief overwhelms every aspect of life and Lisa suffered three in a row: first her younger sister, then her psychoanalyst mother, and finally the most heart-rendering, her beloved and brilliant husband, Marcel Berlins. Her sister’s death came with complex grief, and relief. Her mother’s death deprived her of her guide and protection, but her husband’s death delivered an unbearable atrophy and desperation. Lisa will explore the ways she emerged from unadulterated grief, to live with the living and not with the dead. She will describe the strength she drew from the arts, and the limitations of psychotherapy in that process.

11.45
Cathy Rentzenbrink
Grief: A long story

When Cathy Rentzenbrink was 17, her adored younger brother Matty was knocked over by a car. He never regained consciousness and died eight years later. Cathy will speak about the long road she has travelled since that night 30 years ago when she knelt next to him in the road. There has been much sadness and madness, but also hope and redemption. She will explore the role that both reading and writing books has played in her recovery, and share what she does now to honour her grief, and to stay rooted in the present rather than lost in the past.

12.15
Panel discussion with Q&A

12.45
Break

13.30
Dr Lucy Selman
The shape of grief in COVID-19

People bereaved during the COVID-19 crisis face extraordinary challenges: COVID-19 deaths are often sudden and unexpected, infection control measures limit contact prior to death, social support and mourning practices are disrupted, and the threat of the virus is omnipresent. In this presentation Lucy Selman will present findings from recent research, describing the experiences and support needs of those bereaved at this challenging time. She will also reflect on the societal consequences of the pandemic, which has brought death and grief centre-stage, and her experiences of running Good Grief, an international online festival that attracted 12,000.

14.15
Q&A

14.30
Whole group discussion and Q&A

15.00
End

FEES

Includes handouts and a recording

Bookings close at 9.00am BST Tuesday 18 May

Live Webinar £60 (Member £48):
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VENUE

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SCHEDULE

Friday
10:00 BST (05.00 EDT) Introductions
10:05 Julia Samuel in Conversation
10:45 Q&A
11:00 Break
11.15 Lisa Forrell
11.45 Cathy Rentzenbrink
12.15 Panel discussion with Q&A
12.45 Break
13.30 Dr Lucy Selman
14.15 Q&A
14.30 Whole group discussion and Q&A
15.00 End

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