Participation in Support Groups

The group session provides a safe space for sharing, connection, and mutual support among bereaved family members, and creates a bond with others who understand the depth of pain and loss

Who is this page for?

Bereaved Parents
Widows and Widowers
Orphans
Siblings
Fiancées and Fiancés

About the support groups

The groups create a shared, stable, and safe space that allows participants to share feelings and emotions associated with loss, absence, and longing, in a supportive, sensitive, and protective environment.

I understood I was normal, I understood my struggle was normal

What will the support group give you?

Accompaniment and support in the process of processing the loss.
A framework for professional support and care.
Assistance in building resilience.
Tools for coping in daily life.
Creation of social connections.

How do support groups work?

Guidance by professional and experienced therapists for support and processing of the loss.
Intimate group discussions.
Structured sessions held weekly or bi-weekly.
The duration of the sessions is between 3 months to 2 years, depending on the type of group.
There are short-term groups of 8-10 sessions, incorporating expressive methods such as art, phototherapy, nature therapy, photo-voice, mindfulness, playback theater, and bibliotherapy.

How to join?

Please contact the family's social worker or the group coordinators in your residential district.
The district group coordinator will contact you.
You will be invited to a personal introductory meeting with the group facilitators.
You will then join the group.

I received tools that will serve me in the toughest moments