Focus on Bereavement and Forgiveness for Caregiver Resilience

Underpinning Knowledge

• Take time to build self knowledge and awareness during a bereavement process
• Be responsive to one self during a bereavement journey

Attitude

• Recognise the importance of forgiveness
• Respect and acknowledge the different feelings and emotions felt during a bereavement process

Skills

• Address underlying causes and reasons on why it becomes challenging to forgive oneself
• Explore consequences and what might happen if one fails to forgive oneself
• Resolve how to forgive oneself using a Recovery Forgiveness Cycle
• Find resolution/closure to move forward

What You'll Learn

• Understanding the link between grief, bereavement and loss
• The importance of body-mind-spirit harmony
• Learning about spiritual strength and inner peace
• Stages of bereavement process and "sticky points"
• Importance of Forgiveness of self and others (letting go)
• The Recovery Forgiveness Cycle
• Resilience as a concept and a reality
• Learning from peer sharing in breakout sessions
• Demonstration of body-mind-spirit alignment through yoga postures
• Class discussion and sharing about forgiveness
• Resources in community for meditation, yoga, and mindfulness practice