Bereavement Cafe

Heal the Gap 

A place for connection, healing and support for those who have lost a loved one.

We meet in the Canterbury Room at St Thomas' Church between 3pm and 4pm usually on the third Sunday of the month. 

Our first session will be on 19th January 2025.  (See below for further dates.)

Please come and join us for a cup of tea and refreshments. 



Our Bereavement Café is a new initiative that is following on from our Bereavement Course. Grief is a natural response to a loss, and it affects everyone differently. By being able to offer a comfortable environment to discuss and share your experience of grief with others without fear of judgement and scrutiny, regardless of how long ago your loss occurred, we felt this was a very important part of our community to be able to offer this to anyone within our benefice.

From January onwards, we will be offering a monthly meet up in the Canterbury Room for some peer-to-peer support, with the opportunity of meeting others from our villages, who are going through similar situations.  This can also offer some friendship, advice and hope.   We also will be offering tea, coffee and refreshments.
  
The aims of this group, is to demystify the topic of grief and remove its status as a taboo subject and to equip everyone with the self-assurance necessary to engage in a meaningful conversation with those grappling with loss, focusing primarily on active listening.  These sessions will be managed by trained group bereavement facilitators. 

The planned dates are:
  Sunday 19th January
  Sunday 16th February
  Sunday 16th March
  Sunday 13th April
  Sunday 18th May
  Sunday 15th June