Webinar series Autumn 2024
Six webinars. Each 60 mins. No fee. Book online now.
Lobbying your MP
Unsure if contacting your MP is not confidential or may affect mediation or legal proceedings? Not sure if something you do may have an adverse effect on tenuous relationships?
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Grandparents & your MPs: how to effectively lobby plus some myth-busting.
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Mon 21 October 2024
at 130pm online via Microsoft Teams
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​Teams link will be made available the day before.
The impact of ambiguous grief on grandchildren
Losing a living person in your life i.e. your grandparent is known as an ambiguous loss. The ensuing ambiguous grief has significant impacts on both grandchild and grandparent.
This session will help you understand these impacts on your grandchild and what you can do about it.
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Wed 23 October 2024 at 645pm online via Microsoft Teams
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Teams link will be made available the day before.
Grandparent Support Group Leads' session (UK-wide)
Introduction to how the new national campaign on changing law, policy and practice will work. Meet the team and a Q&A.
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GUfC national campaign update & support for your grandparents
Wed 30 October 2024 at 1130am online via Microsoft Teams
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Teams link will be made available the day before.​​
The impact of ambiguous grief on grandparents
The loss of a living person is known as an ambiguous loss. The ensuing ambiguous grief has significant impacts on both grandchild and grandparent.
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This session will help you understand these impacts on you as a grandparent (or family member) and what you can do about it.
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Wed 6 November 2024 at 1100am ​online via Microsoft Teams​
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Teams link will be made available the day before.
Waiting to reconnect with your grandchild? What you can do in the meantime
During an emotionally difficult time, it is challenging to know what to do to help you cope in what is essentially a long-term waiting period.
This session goes through some 'things you can do' in the meantime to help you cope and to prepare for your grandchild's reconnection.
It also includes aspects for older grandparents who may be concerned their grandchild will never get to know them before their time runs out.
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Grandparents: what you can do
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Tue 12 November 2024 at 7pm online via Microsoft Teams​
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Teams link will be made available the day before.
Key points for professionals working with (safe) forcibly estranged grandparents
There is relatively little known about the hidden but apparently growing issue of (safe) grandparents being actively prevented from seeing their grandchildren with whom there is generally a strong and loving relationship.
As well as experiencing ambiguous grief, there is often shame, humiliation, hiding, and regret that often present in grandparents as long-term depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation and psychosomatic illnesses.
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This 'what you need to know' introductory session provides information on key aspects in working with grandparents in this situation including an introduction to ambiguous grief.
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It is especially useful for family mediators and lawyers, counsellors and psychotherapists, social prescribers, older people support workers and social workers.
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​Wed 4 December 2024 at 10am online via Microsoft Teams​
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Teams link will be made available the day before.