Bereavement Zoom Workshops
Understanding How Bereaved Children and Teens React to Loss
This Zoom workshop will explore the reactions of children and teens at different stages of their development; and in turn support parents to understand how to support a child/teen in their adjustment to loss.
Supporting Parents to Explore the Issues that Can Arise for Children and Young People Whose Parent/Grandparent has Died
This Zoom workshop will include the child who has never met their deceased parent and has no memory but is experiencing the grief of a relationship that they never had.
Supporting Parents who have Lost a Partner/Spouse
This Zoom workshop will explore the challenges for a surviving parent as they move forward in the parent alone following the loss of the child’s other parent.
Exploring the Impact of Parenting When a Parent has Life Limiting or a Life Changing Illness
This Zoom workshop will explore the challenges and the impact on parenting when living with a life limiting or a life changing illness; and the impact on children and young people; and on the wider family systems.
Supporting Young People Who had Experienced the Death of a Sibling
This workshop will explore the Issues for children/teens whose sibling has died; and the impact on the family system; and on parents and children individually.
Bereavement In Person Workshops
Supporting Parents To Parent A Bereaved Child
This in-person workshop will explore the impact of death on children and teens; help parents to develop tools to support children and teens to talk openly about their feelings; support parents to develop coping strategies as they live with their own grief, while supporting a child or teen in their care. Supporting carers to engage with the ‘big feelings’ that can arise around grief rather than fear them. The interactive workshop will be a safe space for parents to listen, be heard and explore and feel their way through their own grief so they can feel more able to support their children at this time.
Wednesday 1st February 2023
Date: Wednesday 1st February 2023
Time: 19:00 – 21:00 GMT
Location: Ozanam House, 53 Mountjoy Square West, Dublin 1, Ireland D01 T6W6
Tuesday 21st February 2023
Date: Tuesday 21st February 2023
Time: 10:00-12:00 GMT
Location: Artane Coolock Family Resource Centre, 55 Gracefield Road, Artane, Ireland D05 V1Y2
Tuesday 21st March 2023
Date: Tuesday 21st March 2023
Time: 10:00-12:00 GMT
Location: St. Laurence O`Toole Roman Catholic Church, Seville Place, North Wall, Ireland D01 KN73
Wednesday 26th April 2023
Date: Wednesday 26th April 2023
Time: 19:00-21:00 IST
Location: Aster Family Resource Centre, Balbriggan, Ireland
Tuesday 16th May 2023
Date: Tuesday 16th May 2023
Time: 10:00-12:00 IST
Location: Presentation Primary School, George’s Hill, Halston Street, Dublin 7, Ireland
Wednesday 21st June 2023
Date: Wednesday 21st June 2023
Time: 19:00-21:00 IST
Location: Ozanam House 53 Mountjoy Square West, Dublin 1, Ireland, D01 T6W6
For Parents: Separating Well for Children
One Family have a long history of offering group-based supports to parents parenting alone and parenting post separation. For the purposes of this Project the focus will be on Family Communications – Separating Well for Children.
Parents whose children are engaged in the Project will have an opportunity to take part in this course in person, via zoom or as an e course, taken as a self-taught programme.
About the Course
In this programme parents who are parenting post separation or are planning to separate are supported to firstly understand the impact of separation on children.
The programme aims to support parents to have a child centred approach post separation, ensuring children are supported to manage the transition well, achieving positive outcomes. Parents are asked to explore and understand the needs of children and parents at the time of separation and how these needs can be met.
In the programme parents are encouraged to have pride in the new family form, inviting children to ask questions and being available to answer the awkward questions about family forms as they arise.
We explore what shared parenting is, why it is beneficial to children when done well and how parents can develop a shared parenting plan to support them to move into the business of shared parenting post separation.
Finally the programme asks you to develop new family traditions to support you as move through this transition with your children, while also exploring how you can manage conflict in the future while maintaining a healthy balance of meeting your needs and those of your children.
Spring Term
Type: Zoom course
Duration: 6 weeks
Start Date: 7th February 2023
Summer Term
Type: Zoom
Duration: 6 weeks
Start Date: 9th May 2023
Self-Taught E-Course
Type: E-course
Duration: At your own pace
Fee: Please contact organiser if you need to reduce or waive the fee
Contact the Project Coordinator to express an interest in attending with your child or to find out more about how the Pillar Project can support you, your child and the other parent.
Project Coordinator: Roisin Sarsfield
Telephone: 089 9407519
Email: roisin@pillarproject.ie