Activity Guides

Dealing with loss, tending to the garden

This session supports participants in understanding and navigating loss, grief, and mourning while building awareness of how these experiences impact emotional well-being. Through guided discussion and reflective learning, participants explore coping strategies, tending to themselves like a garden, and practical ways to support both themselves and others during times of loss in safe and compassionate ways.

Terminology: grief, mourning, loss, coping strategies, resilience, emotional support, bereavement

Audience

Age: All ages

Community Needs: Learning how to navigate grief and loss like tending to a garden.

Group Size: 5-20 people

Language Level: Intermediate (Level 4–5) English Proficiency

Participant Benefits

Understanding Types of Loss and Mourning: Participants gained knowledge of different types of loss and the four components of mourning, deepening their understanding of how grief can be experienced in varied and complex ways.
Building Skills for Coping with Grief and Loss: Participants developed strategies to cope with grief and loss, supporting emotional processing and fostering resilience over time.
Expanding Language and Understanding of Loss: Participants increased their awareness of language and terminology related to grief, loss, and mourning to better articulate and understand their experiences.
Normalizing the Grieving Process: Participants strengthened their understanding that grief is a natural and shared human experience, helping to reduce stigma and self-judgment around mourning.
Connecting Through Shared Lived Experience: Participants engaged with others who have similar experiences of loss, fostering connection, validation, and peer support.