The Understanding Your Grief Support Group Guide: Starting and Leading a Bereavement Support Group

For bereavement caregivers who want to start and run an effective grief support group for adults, this new Support Group Guide discusses the role of support groups for mourners and describes the steps involved (such as deciding on group format, publicizing the group and writing meeting plans) in getting a group started. Responding to problems in the group is also addressed, as is a model for evaluating your group's progress.

This Guide includes potential meeting plans that interface with Understanding Your Grief and the companion journal as texts for group participants. This Support Group Guide is a must for all bereavement group leaders.

From The Understanding Your Grief Support Group Guide:

Grief, often the most profound form of sorrow, demands the support and compassion of our fellow human beings. Since the beginning of time, people have come together in times of grief to help one another. Grief support groups provide an opportunity for this kind of help and support. If you are a grief support group leader, thank you for your efforts to help create a "safe place" to nurture others. When you are privileged to witness the pain soften and hope emerge, you realize it is worth all your efforts.