Workshop Overview  

In this one‑day workshop, you’ll explore the emotional, relational, and cultural complexities of pregnancy and infant loss. You’ll learn how to support grieving parents with sensitivity, trauma‑aware practice, and confidence. The workshop helps you understand different types of perinatal loss, recognise diverse grief responses, communicate with compassion, and provide support that honours each family’s unique experience. You’ll also gain practical tools, grounding strategies, and insights into working respectfully with families from diverse backgrounds and identities.

What You’ll Learn

• The different types of pregnancy and infant loss
• How grief is experienced when a baby dies
• The emotional, relational, and social impacts of perinatal loss
• Trauma‑informed and compassionate support skills
• How to work respectfully with diverse families and cultural needs
• Practical tools for assessment, communication, and referral
• How to care for yourself when supporting grieving families.

Learning Outcomes  

Participants will be able to:

• Identify the spectrum of pregnancy and infant loss
• Recognise diverse grief responses in parents, partners, siblings, and families
• Apply trauma‑informed and compassion‑centred support strategies
• Communicate sensitively and confidently with bereaved families
• Support clients from diverse cultural, spiritual, and family backgrounds
• Use practical tools such as grounding, reflective listening, and gentle inquiry
• Understand boundaries, scope of practice, and referral pathways
• Integrate learning into professional practice while maintaining self‑care

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