Grieving and loss with children

Presented by: Don Robinson

Workshop description:

The parents and other adults dealing with their own grief often do not know how to help the children grieve their losses. Children may experience the death of a close family member as a frightening time because they do not know about death and dying. Adults often do not know how to explain death in a way that children can understand. 

Understandably, adults want to shield children from the tragedy of losing a loved one.  Children need healing to deal with their grief and pain. They do not have a language for their feelings, their pain and often cannot verbalize their needs. Based on the facilitator’s play therapy work with children, this workshop will provide guidelines for helping children to grieve and help parents and other adults to speak with children.