LIVE WEBINAR | Mindfulness in grief support: Holding space with compassion and presence

Mindfulness in grief support: Holding space with compassion and presence

with Dr Susan Crozier

Who should attend this webinar?
Anyone who works in a professional care role or supports people through all forms of loss and grief. Our content is applicable to a wide variety of professions including counsellors, social workers, teachers, emergency response teams, medical, corrections, mental health, hospice, volunteers, caregivers and more.

Overview

Grief can bring intense emotions, uncertainty and a deep sense of disorientation. For those supporting people with significant loss, mindfulness can offer a grounded and compassionate way of being alongside distress, helping us respond with greater presence, steadiness and care.

Many practitioners will already have encountered mindfulness through personal practice, professional development or therapeutic training. This webinar offers an opportunity to deepen understanding of mindfulness and explore how mindful awareness and compassion can support meaningful conversations with people navigating loss and grief.

Together, we will reflect on how mindfulness may help us stay present with difficult emotions, strengthen our capacity to hold space for others, and support grieving people in ways that feel safe, respectful, and nourishing to their individual experience.

Key learning points:

• Explore different understandings and approaches to mindfulness practice

• Consider how mindfulness can support us in working alongside grief, distress and emotional overwhelm

• Learn about mindful compassion as a foundation for supportive and attuned conversations

• Reflect on how we can safely and sensitively encourage mindfulness practices with grieving clients

• Gain practical insights into using mindfulness as a resource for both personal and professional wellbeing

About the presenter

Dr Susan Crozier is a counsellor and supervisor in private practice. Her experience working with people through grief and loss was developed through her years working as a counsellor at Hospice. Susan originally trained in Narrative Therapy, and her work with people draws on Narrative and Collaborative practices as well as ideas and practices from many wisdom traditions including contemporary Buddhism and Progressive Christianity.

She is a writer, maker, gardener, cook, partner, friend, sister, auntie and lives in a multi-species household with several loved humans and animals. After a lifelong involvement in education, personal development, and spiritual exploration, Susan is deeply interested in questions about how we make a possible world for ourselves in the face of the challenges that life inevitably brings. 

Susan has a PhD from the University of Auckland and is a member of NZAC.

TO FIND OUT MORE AND BOOK: 

https://education.griefcentre.org.nz/course/mindfulness0626