Course Overview:

Learn how to support children and young people to manage the change, loss and grief that is an inevitable part of their lives.

Dealing with small and large changes and challenges can be difficult for children. Learn age appropriate art and other creative interventions to help children deal with separation, divorce, death and other significant loss experiences. This workshop is based on the premise that the better children learn to manage and grow through changes, the more resilient they become as they face further changes in their adult life. Children can have a very different concept about loss than adults.

In this 3 hour online and interactive workshop you will learn how to support children and adolescents integrate and make sense of significant loss experiences, understand the implications of loss experiences, know loss and grief from a child’s developmental perspective and help children to work through age appropriate creative interventions. This workshop draws from the “Seasons for Growth” program which is an Australian grief and loss support program for children and young people.

You will have the opportunity to:

• Identify different responses children and young people have to loss

• Describe skills that develop to assist in managing grief reactions

• Assess normal age appropriate loss and grief responses

• Discuss children’s concepts of death and how this impacts on the grief process

• Practice creative interventions and practical strategies to assist children and young people come to terms with their loss to promote healing and growth
  

What ideas are explored?

• How loss can be experienced by children and young people
• How can art and creativity activity facilitate healing through loss for children?
• What theory informs this work?
• When might this form of therapy not be useful?
• What are different types of art and creative processes I could use with children and young people?

Training methods will include:

• Interactive presentation
• Large and small group discussions
• Live demonstrations of methods
• Art making and creative game and activity making opportunities
• Reflection opportunities for application of methods
• Watching multimedia film clips

Please note, this is a LIVE and INTERACTIVE training event. We don't record this.

Who Should Attend?

All those working with children. Psychologists, social workers, counsellors, bereavement counsellors, teachers, case workers, psychotherapists, pastoral workers, other allied health professionals and students of these disciplines. No artistic experience or skill is necessary. There will be a maximum of 16 people at this course.

Workshop Facilitator

Beaté Steller Masters of Ageing and Pastoral Studies, Masters in Adult Education, Bachelors in Social Worker Accredited Mental Health Social Worker and Counsellor, M.A.P.S., M.Ed. (Adult Ed), BSW (Hon) Beaté has always loved art, even as a small child, and nearly pursued a career in art when instead, she decided to do nursing and then social work. She kept dabbling in it until a decade ago when her mother died. She found herself naturally drawn back to art as a way to heal her loss and to come to terms with so many changes in her life. Now she uses art in her counselling and supervision work.   Beaté brings over 30 years of experience in a variety of industries to her role as a principal Training and Development Consultant and has been an adult educator since 1992, for organizations including the Centre for Community Welfare Training, the Australian College of Applied Psychology, the Professional Development People and Lifeline Sydney. In the last ten years, Beate has specialised in grief and loss education/counselling, transition counselling and applied mindfulness. She started her own inner work over three decades ago with Yoga and Vipassana and walked the Camino in Spain in 2015. She has been a board member of NALAG (National Association for Loss and Grief) since 2009.

Date and Time

15th May 2025, 9am - 12pm AEST (Sydney Time)

&

16th October 2025, 9am - 12pm AEDT (Sydney Time)

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Workshop Details:

• 3 CPD hours 
• Access to slides
• Link to create Certificate of Attendance
• GST

Workshop Cost

Special Price           $200

Approved ACA Event for 5 points

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