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Good Grief Festival
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Festivals, events and courses exploring love and loss. https://www.goodgrieffest.com/
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'Focus on the process!' Our Letters to Forever panel brought together 3 artists who have used creative methods to share grief: Helen Acklam, Natalia Millman & Carrie Etter. In this clip, Natalia explains that it isn't the artwork that matters, but how it feels to make something
November 14, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Around 280,000 UK students are bereaved each year, so how can we support them & reduce their sense of isolation? Join us for a free online panel w/ 3 bereaved young people: www.ticketsource.co.uk/goodgrieffest/loss-and-learning-navigating-grief-at-university/e-ogxlev
I didn't want to be the girl whose brother had died. I just wanted to be normal. Anna May
November 11, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Artists YARA + DAVINA create fascinating work exploring grief, commemoration & more. They'll be at @curzonclevedon on Sunday 23rd November for an in-person talk and pub quiz.

Find out more at: www.curzon.org.uk/film/yara-davina-live
YARA + DAVINA and event info. Available here: www.curzon.org.uk/film/yara-davina-live
November 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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We're delighted to partner on the Bristol premiere of Contact Hours, a short film about student suicide. The free screening & Q&A aims to open conversations about youth mental health www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/winston-theatre/wed-19-nov-film-screening-and-q-a-contact-hours-139087#e139087
Contact Hours poster with event information available here https://www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/winston-theatre/wed-19-nov-film-screening-and-q-a-contact-hours-139087#e139087
November 5, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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We're still thinking about It Feels Like This, a special exhibition in Bristol last Sat. Thanks to @bristoluni.bsky.social & Let's Talk About Loss for collaborating, to the artists for featuring & to our intern, Isis Blake, for curating.
More: www.bristol247.com/culture/art/turning-grief-into-art
https://www.bristol247.com/culture/art/turning-grief-into-art/
October 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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When her mum died, student Melanie Wolff felt hit by a ‘hurricane’ of emotions. This panel on 13 Nov will explore challenges of grief at uni & how to improve support, feat 3 people bereaved as students www.ticketsource.co.uk/goodgrieffest/loss-and-learning-navigating-grief-at-university/e-ogxlev
Photos of the three panellists and a painting by Jasmine Potter of a young person dressed in blue, with a cat. The text reads: Thurs 13 Nov 12 BST, free online panel and Q&A. Loss and Learning: Navigating Grief at University
October 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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In this clip, Natalie Le Grange explains the importance of people using her baby Aurora's name. Today's the last day of #BabyLossAwarenessWeek. At 7pm, there'll be a #WaveofLight as people light candles to remember babies who died and show support for families affected by baby loss
October 15, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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This #BabyLossAwarenessWeek we're reflecting on bereaved parents' insights from our Pregnancy, Baby Loss & Grief panel. @tamarinnorwood.bsky.social, Richard Boyd & Madhuri Bedi @sandscharity.bsky.social shared their love & grief for their babies & the need to change how we talk about baby loss #BLAW
I often think about grief for a baby as a kind of homesickness because it isn’t just the loss of somebody or something, it’s a complete shift of the whole of the ground from underneath you. Tamarin Norwood The issue we have is the whole language around baby loss is inherently medical and that introduces a distance and an abstractness to a very human experience. Richard Boyd You feel like A tsunami, hurricane, tornado, everything has come your way. And you still have to stand – even though you keep falling – because that’s what Your society, family, community expect from you. Madhuri Bedi We are supporting baby loss awareness week
October 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Why do we turn to creativity during grief? How can it help us connect to others, including people who have died? On 6 Oct, join Natalia Millman, Helen Acklam & @carrieetter.bsky.social to explore what it means to make art from pain & loss & share our story: www.ticketsource.co.uk/goodgrieffes...
Two exhibition photographs: an armchair next to a telephone with images behind and a rock on top of a column. The text reads: Mon 6 Oct 19.00 BST Free Online Event. Letters to Forever: Using Art to Express and Share grief
September 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Our Julia Samuel's Pillars of Strength course is bursting with insight, warmth & wisdom.

Sign up today for 8 on-demand webinars & more!

Our 10% early bird discount is only available until 22nd Sept -- use code EARLYBIRD10:
www.goodgrieffest.com/the-grief-academy

#grief #juliasamuelmbe
September 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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An international research team is inviting people who have been bereaved in the last year to share their perspectives and experiences of death and dying. Please see the flyer for more details.
A flyer for the study. For more information, visit the survey page: https://utampa.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bpx7hiIzvFCtO8C
September 9, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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We're thrilled to bring back our #JuliaSamuel's Pillars of Strength course!

The Pillars are a roadmap for dealing with all kinds of loss, helping you survive, & even thrive, through life’s highs & lows.

Sign up today to access 8 on-demand webinars & more! www.goodgrieffest.com/the-grief-academy
Julia Samuel wearing a red dress in a panelled room. The text reads 8 on-demand webinars with Julia and more. The Grief Academy. Julia Samuel's Pillars of Strength. More info at www.goodgrieffest.com/the-grief-academy
September 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Grief and death affect us all & yet we often struggle to talk about them. The anxieties can be greater for people with learning disabilities & their families, friends & carers. Check out our blog, resource list & webinar here: www.goodgrieffest.com/journal/grie...
A person stands next to a chair on a jetty. The text reads: GRIEF & LEARNING DISABILITIES: BLOG, RESOURCE LIST & WEBINAR
June 25, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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It was exciting to attend the 'soft launch' of Good Grief Hastings & meet some of the brilliant people who are working to make it happen as part of the @coastalcch.bsky.social project. We can't wait for 2026!
@stmhospice.bsky.social @eastsussexcc.bsky.social @uniofbrighton.bsky.social
Kieran Mac Feely presenting to the group. The slide behind him reads Good Grief Hastings with the Good Grief Festival logo Members of the 18 hours team in matching red polo shirts with their company logo A shipyard with colourful bunting Jo Sharman, Lesel Dawson & Kieran Mac Feely smiling with the sea in the background
June 17, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Huge congratulations to @doctoroxford.com whose extraordinary book The Story of a Heart has won the @womensprize.bsky.social for non-fiction 2025.
Read more here: womensprize.com/announcing-t...
Photo of Rachel Clarke next to her book cover. The text reads: Women's Prize for Non-Fiction Winner 2025
June 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Stephanie Meddick-Dyson (@drstephmeddickd.bsky.social) is inviting people to share their experiences of care in the Intensive Care Unit through focus groups or interviews. Please see the flyer or get in touch with Stephanie for more details
A flyer for Stephanie's study. For more information, visit: https://brave-icu.my.canva.site/#patient-and-family-focus-groups
June 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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We're delighted that @artscouncilengland.bsky.social has highlighted #GoodGriefWeston as ‘a best practice example of cross-sector collaboration and the role of creativity in promoting health and wellbeing in our communities’: www.artscouncil.org.uk/creative-mat...
Huge thanks to all involved!
Four images of Good Grief Weston: a group of people on a pier, parents & children making art; actors standing around a coffin; a Good Grief Weston programme. The text reads 'GOOD GRIEF WESTON: ‘A BEST PRACTICE EXAMPLE OF CROSS-SECTOR COLLABORATION’
May 30, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Thank you to everyone who came to our #DyingMattersAwarenessWeek events -- & special thanks to the brilliant @drkathrynmannix.bsky.social who joined us in Bristol & Weston-super-Mare, our panellists who discussed learning disabilities, & Robert Neimeyer who talked about living beyond loss
The learning disabilities panel Lucy Selman & Kathryn Mannix after their event in Weston-super-Mare @lucyselman.bsky.social Kathryn Mannix & Andrew Blades during their interview at the University of Bristol Robert Neimeyer & Hannah Jardine during their online interview
May 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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We will also celebrate the publication of Bob's brilliant new book, Living Beyond Loss: Questions and Answers about Grief and Bereavement. More here: www.routledge.com/Living-Beyond-Loss-Questions-and-Answers-About-Grief-and-Bereavement/Neimeyer/p/book/9780367143480
The cover of Bob's new book, which features an artistic impression of a peaceful seascape
May 11, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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#DyingMattersAwarenessWeek may be nearly over but we have one more online event tomorrow (Monday) at 7pm. Join us to hear the ever-insightful Prof. Robert Neimeyer talk about how we can rebuild a meaningful life after it has been shattered by bereavement: www.ticketsource.co.uk/goodgrieffes...
An image of Robert Neimeyer with text about the event. It reads: 'Living Beyond Loss: Questions and Answers About Bereavement' Monday 12 May 19.00 BST Free Online Event'
May 11, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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New on YouTube! We're excited to share We Need to Talk About Death, a 15-min film co-created by biggerhousefilm & adults w/ learning disabilities. We'll discuss it at our free online panel w/ Irene Tuffrey-Wijne & Stephen Clarke #DyingMattersAwarenessWeek

www.ticketsource.co.uk/goodgrieffes...
Some of the people who feature in We Need to Talk About Death @backpocketteacher.bsky.social
May 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Our Weston-super-Mare event with @drkathrynmannix.bsky.social is sold out!
BUT... you can still grab a ticket for her Bristol Uni interview next Friday lunchtime
www.ticketsource.co.uk/goodgrieffes...

#DyingMattersAwarenessWeek @griefcentrebris.bsky.social @hospiceuk.bsky.social
Images of Kathryn Mannix and her two books, accompanied by logos for Good Grief Festival, the University of Bristol and Dying Matters and some event details (available on link in post)
May 2, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Mary-Frances O'Connor @doctormfoconnor.bsky.social is an expert on the myriad ways that grief affects us physically & mentally. We can't wait to hear her insights at our free webinar on Weds (23 April).
Sign up (& share any questions you'd like us to ask) here: ticketsource.co.uk/goodgrieffes...
Black text on white background reads 'Grieving wails and screams, not just as outward expressions of emotion, but inside our body as well. Mary-Frances O'Connor'
April 19, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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How does grief affect us physically? Join us for a webinar w/ brilliant neuroscientist @doctormfoconnor.bsky.social in conversation w/ @leseldawson.bsky.social. We'll celebrate Mary-Frances's new book & explore how to support our bodies & minds during grief: www.ticketsource.co.uk/goodgrieffes...
Photo of Mary-Frances. The text reads: What Happens in our Bodies When We're Grieving? Wed 23 April 18.00 BST, Free Online Event
April 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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We Need to Talk About Death! That's why we've organised an online #DyingMattersAwarenessWeek screening of @biggerhousefilms beautiful short film & a panel exploring ways to open up conversations w/ adults w/ learning disabilities, featuring @TuffreyWijne: www.ticketsource.co.uk/goodgrieffes...
A person standing by a chair on a jetty surrounded by greenery. The text reads: Wed 7 May 12 BST; free online event; Grief and Learning Disabilities: We Need to Talk About Death
April 8, 2025 at 11:48 AM