Workshop Overview  

This workshop explores how grief is shaped by culture, identity, community, and collective experience. Participants learn how to support people in ways that honour cultural practices, values, and worldviews. The training blends grief informed and trauma aware principles with cultural humility, curiosity, and respect.

What You Will Learn

• How culture shapes expressions of grief, mourning, and meaning making
• Understanding collective grief, community grief, and intergenerational grief
• The impact of colonisation, displacement, and cultural loss on grief experiences
• Cultural humility: working with curiosity rather than assumptions
• How to ask culturally sensitive questions and avoid unintentionally harmful language
• Supporting clients when cultural, spiritual, or family expectations influence grief
• Creating culturally safe spaces in practice settings
• When and how to collaborate with cultural leaders, Elders, or community supports

Learning Outcomes  

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Recognise how cultural identity and worldview influence grief responses
• Provide support that is culturally aware, respectful, and grounded in humility
• Use communication approaches that honour cultural practices and avoid assumptions
• Navigate situations where cultural, spiritual, or family expectations shape grief
• Integrate culturally informed strategies into grief support practice
• Identify when cultural consultation or community partnership is needed

Facilitator/Counsellor: Mandy Cox 

Dip. Miss.; CPE; Spiritual Director (WellSpring, Vic); B.Min; M.Couns; Grad Cert Supervision.

Mandy is a registered clinical Counsellor and Supervisor and has worked in the field of grief and loss for 20 years, working in a range of counselling roles, including palliative care, coronial counselling, maternal loss, victims of violent crime, and co-founded Canberra Grief Centre.  Mandy also facilitates workshops and retreats focussing on grief, loss and change.

For more information contact:

NALAG Centre for Loss & Grief
Email: info@nalag.org.au
Phone: 02 6882 9222