07 & 8 Nov 2026 | Grieving while Working with Loss | In-person workshop

When we return to work after a personal loss it does not mean we are not grieving. We are also individuals on our own human journey. 

It can take a long time to resolve the impact of tragic events in our lives and yet, we often have to continue to work with our clients’ losses while we are carrying deep personal sorrow. Inevitably there will be times when personal experience impacts the focus, energy and enthusiasm we have for our work. This may become overwhelming and can lead to a sense of professional paralysis, exhaustion and inner crisis.

In this meditative weekend retreat, we will allow time to reflect on what happens to us when we experience grief in our personal lives whilst encountering aspects of loss in the work we do with our clients. The course is designed for those who wish  to reflect on the experience of carrying others when we really needed to be carried ourselves, and the residue of our own feelings.

The workshop is offered as a contemplative space for digestion and reflection for people who work in roles where they have to be strong for others, and have experienced grieving and trying to work at the same time. You may be a social worker, foster parent, family carer, therapist, nurse, doctor, teacher, support worker, police officer etc.

Aims and Objectives of the workshop: 

We will review theories related to grief and trauma and consider how this applies to the topic, however as the weekend is a retreat, focus will be on our own processes. 

By the end of the weekend, participants will begin to establish and/or fortify already existing mechanisms for inner protection & recognize other parts of self which can be accessed for future work.  

The retreat will include Art making, guided meditation, reflective writing, sharing and ceremony.

Facilitator:

Marion Green

Marion is a former social worker specialised in child protection, school based social work and adoption. As an art psychotherapist, she has worked with men and women in the penal system, psychiatric care, primary aged children and their parents, traumatised adolescents, the chronically sick and dying, with homeless women and women working in the sex industry.

She is a clinical supervisor, workshop facilitator and visiting lecturer, specialising in the themes of Burnout, maintaining resilience and working with traumatised people. Marion has been a regular seminar leader at the annual International Anthroposophical Art Therapy conference at the Goetheanum, Switzerland. She has taught in Honduras, Spain, Georgia, South Africa, Taiwan and the Philippines and presented papers for Confer Psychotherapy events UK.

Marion has published articles on Burnout and is a chapter co-author in the book Art Therapy with Neurological Conditions. (Ed. S. Weston and M. Liebmann published Jessica Kingsley 2015)

In her spare time she walks, works in her garden and carves alabaster. | LATC Profile