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SUPPORT GROUP

NAVIGATING AMBIGUOUS LOSS SUPPORT GROUP

An opportunity to meet online over a series of seven weeks to explore your ambiguous loss and grief in a safe environment with others sharing similar experiences. Each session has a focus based on the MARCH Model for Ambiguous Loss (Chloë Swinton, 2016).
 
The sessions consist of a mixture of education (the facilitator sharing information), participants sharing personal experiences, discussions and mutual support. We offer an optional homework task, weekly handouts including resources and signposting on the last week. In every session we explore self-care and coping strategies.

Upcoming dates

NEW SUPPORT GROUP COMING SOON. Get in touch with any queries.

Week 1: Introductions and storytelling
Week 2: Isolation and connection
Week 3: Mastery and finding balance
Week 4: Resilience and learning to cope
Week 5: Acceptance and embracing fear
Week 6: Hope and finding meaning
Week 7: Remembering and closure


Completing the group sessions, you will
  • Understand and integrate your ambiguous loss and grief
  • Reduce your isolation and loneliness
  • Express and manage your feelings
  • Cope better with everyday life
  • Feel more in control with renewed hope.

You get
  • 10.5 hours of group support over seven weeks (1.5 hours per week) delivered via Zoom
  • Small group numbers to allow for more intimate conversations and discussions
  • A holistic and integrated approach, engaging with: visualisation, creativity, nature, meditation, theoretical models, breathwork and journaling, for example
  • Further learning and personal development with homework tasks and resources information
  • An opportunity for further contact with participants following the completion of the group
  • Professional facilitation by an experienced and qualified Counsellor and Ambiguous Loss Specialist.

Facilitator
The support group is led by Chloë Swinton, an MBACP Registered and qualified Counsellor and the Founder of  Ambiguous Loss UK, who has had her own past lived experiences of ambiguous loss. Chloë has been a Trainer and Facilitator since 2002 and has supported people with a wide range of ambiguous losses for over 20 years.​​

Cost
Early Bird with 20% discount: £ 
General Admission: £

Other information
  • Payment plans are available. Early Bird prices work out at £ a week (cheaper than therapy!)
  • Participants are requested to attend every session, with Week 1 compulsory for all
  • Our group is for adults over 18 who are living in the UK and directly experiencing ambiguous loss
  • Places are limited in the support group
  • We do not arrange refunds or exchanges
  • ​During our sessions we will discuss personal lived experiences of ambiguous loss. This must be kept confidential by all participants.
Contact for full information and registration
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Feedback from previous participants:
“I found the ambiguous loss support group to be invaluable in helping me to find new ways to navigate and process my own complex losses. Chloe was very adept at holding the space for our different experiences, gently and expertly inviting us to share our experiences through thoughtful discussions and homework suggestions. Her warmth and professionalism created an atmosphere of safety that allowed for a sense of ease and helped us to bond over the 7 weeks. Getting to know others who were experiencing similar feelings helped to ‘normalise’ our experiences and provided a great deal of comfort. Although 7 weeks was a relatively short period of time, we built enough connection to want to stay in touch with one another after the sessions ended. I highly recommend this support group for anyone struggling to find their way through ambiguous loss.” ~ Shirley
 
“I joined Chloe's support group having never met anyone else experiencing ambiguous loss. I had never been to a support group and I wasn't sure how I could talk to strangers about a type of grief that was having such a major impact on my own life. It was so refreshing to finally get more of an informed understanding of my own loss and speak to others in the group who ‘just really get it’ and understand the devastating sadness I have been feeling. The group has given me valuable, unjudged support by a small number of lovely people who share a range of ambiguous loss experiences but who have all come together to both give and receive; to listen and share and to help each other and themselves. Chloe's kind, calm manner and expertise gave us a safe and structured pathway through each session. I feel fortunate to have had an opportunity to be part of something unique and special.”
~ Teresa L
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