Girls Talk is a group that runs for 8 weeks it is suitable for children age 9-11 to provide factual information and guidance on issues around growing up. You look like you are feeling cross, is that right?” Activities to help children express their feelings

These examples from nature can help young children to begin to understand the difference between dead and alive people too, and help them slowly start to piece together understanding. How might children’s grief change as they get older? The Good Grief Trust: Bereavement support and information, as well as virtual support through a ‘virtual café’ via zoom. Think about ways you can include the memory of deceased loved ones in special occasions, if this feels right for your family. Should young children attend a funeral? Stories and words have therapeutic potential. They can strengthen us, help to reframe things, and help make meaning. This book offers story medicine for children, families and communities at times of grieving, loss and separation.

We provide a range of group work support which can be;

Muddles, Puddles and Sunshine’ is a bereavement and loss group that runs for 6 weeks. It is for those who have experienced the loss of a loved one and is delivered to small groups of up to 4 children /young people due to the nature of the group. Losing someone close to us is never easy. But what do we do when someone passes away due to a virus that we don’t really understand? What do we do when we are not able to comfort each other as usual, or even attend funerals to say goodbye? Side by Side is a group that runs for 3-4 weeks. It is suitable for Children/young people aged 6-10 and their families. It is for those having difficulty in family/peer relationships, emotional skills and social skills. It can be used where there has been a significant event such as a bereavement loss or trauma and is based on the five ways to wellbeing. There are separate children, young people and adult groups that run simultaneously, then there is a family session which joins the children, young people and adults together.

The death of a parent or sibling is a devastating experience for any child and often adults don’t know what to say or how to support them. If your child is under five then this can be even more difficult because they might not understand what has happened or be able to express their feelings. The expert team at Winston’s Wish offers their advice on how to tell a very young child that someone has died, how to help them express their feelings and whether they should attend the funeral. Should I tell a young child about the death of a parent or sibling? Muddles, Puddles and Sunshine: Your Activity Book to Help When Someone Has Died (Early Years) ebook Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie.

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Cruse Bereavement Care: Resources, information and helpline, supporting people who have been affected by the pandemic especially.

Reboot is a group that runs for 7 weeks it is suitable for children who are experiencing anxiety and helps to learn techniques to cope with these anxieties. Children learn through play and storytelling so using these tools and activities can really help. Our book Muddles, Puddles and Sunshine has lots of activities you can do with your children to help them cope with their grief – here are a couple of them: Fizzing feelings bottle: Everybody develops their own coping mechanisms with unavoidable tragedies and bereavement, but for some children, if it is their first time dealing with such a situation, they have no previous experience of how to process it and the emotional consequences can be overwhelming. Coping with bereavement and Loss is a group sessions that spans half or a full day, it’s a group that is delivered on special occasions such as Christmas time and looks at different ways of coping with the feelings children tell us they experience after a death at these times.I just wanted to say a massive thank you for all your hard work over the last few weeks especially. Your resources are always amazing and you have been working tirelessly to support us all with your new resources.

Art Therapy is a group that runs for 8 weeks. It is suitable for children/young people aged 11+ and offers a creative space to express difficult emotions and underlying anxieties. Using art materials to show themselves and other people how they are feeling. When Darinka and Adam unexpectedly meet Dorothy, at first by an old windmill, they embark on a roller coaster journey that transforms their family through the power of spontaneous storytelling.

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At the funeral, Mummy’s body will be in the coffin, it will come in a big special car and all the grown-ups will carry it inside. There will then be a special service with words and music to remember Mummy. Afterwards, we will go outside and the coffin will be placed in a big hole in the ground, then covered with flowers and soil.” This is a set of Regulation Dominoes for working on coping or calming skills. You can use them as a traditional domino game or just… Muddles, Puddles and Sunshine: Your Activity Book to Help When Someone Has Died (Early Years) full book After we have said our goodbyes to Mummy, some music will play and a curtain will go around the special box. Mummy’s body will be moved to a hot room, where it will be turned to ash. Remember the body does not feel any pain so it won’t hurt as the body has stopped working.” This simple activity that can help to show young children how feelings can get all mixed up and can be explosive. Shake a bottle of fizzy drink and then take the lid off to show how feelings can burst right out. You could encourage your children to name their own feelings that might be ‘all mixed up’. Then repeat the activity with another bottle, but this time release the lid slowly and show that feelings can also come out in a more managed way. You can talk about the different feelings as they are released. For very young children they might only be able to name very simple feelings such as ‘happy’ or ‘sad’ but this activity can begin to encourage discussion around feelings. Making a memory box: