Responses to Covid 19
The Covid 19 pandemic has produced a previously unparalleled moment of global crisis with significant impacts on both individuals and organisations. Many people have experienced bereavements in their personal or professional lives, whilst the lockdowns, social distancing and recurring uncertainty have created multiple losses and consequent stress and anxiety. As a response to Covid 19 I offer individual coaching and support, as well as team building and workshops to assist with the emotional impacts of the pandemic. Two of my Covid specific Workshops are outlined below but please contact me to discuss bespoke training and support :
The Covid 19 pandemic has resulted in multiple losses, from manifold deaths, to loss of freedom, routine and social contacts. Theories of bereavement and loss, from Kubler Ross to more contemporary theorists, all emphasise the need to share experiences and this has been shown to reduce feelings of isolation and improve wellbeing. Drawing from this, the session aims to acknowledge the lived reality of working during the pandemic and to provide participants with an opportunity to share their experiences, within a contained and facilitated space.
The Workshop will be experiential and will ask participants to share their experiences of living and working during the pandemic, including any losses which they choose to discuss. A short plenary will share themes from this discussion and a second session will then emphasise discussion of how participants have maintained personal wellbeing during this time, including what they need in terms of support and what are their goals moving forward.
Themes from the session will be collected and fed back, as a means of learning moving forward.
(Attig, 2010)
This three- hour session takes the grief theories of Attig (2010) as a starting point for considering the repercussions of Covid 19. Attig suggested that the task of grief was to ‘relearn’ a world’ which has been irrevocably changed by loss. Other contemporary grief theorists, have also suggested that meaning making is a central driver in processing loss. Whilst many of the conversations around Covid 19 include ‘returning to normal’ this workshop will suggest that our lives have been changed so intensely by the pandemic that we need skills, collective conversations and creative ways of relearning the world and generating meaning as Attig suggests.
Taking this as a starting point, this experiential workshop will ask participants to share their own responses to relearning the world, whilst creating an individualised memory collection. This will include what they would leave behind and what they would wish to take forward, as the lockdown lifts and public spaces re-open. As well as creating a uniquely personal record for each participant, these individual ways of ‘relearning the world’ provide a basis for collective understanding and for strengthening team support and productivity, as well as being a useful model for practice following the multiple losses and accompanying upheavals of Covid 19.
Coaching: I offer one-to one coaching and team building to assist staff and organisations with the impacts of Covid 19. Please contact me to discuss
The Covid 19 pandemic has produced a previously unparalleled moment of global crisis with significant impacts on both individuals and organisations. Many people have experienced bereavements in their personal or professional lives, whilst the lockdowns, social distancing and recurring uncertainty have created multiple losses and consequent stress and anxiety. As a response to Covid 19 I offer individual coaching and support, as well as team building and workshops to assist with the emotional impacts of the pandemic. Two of my Covid specific Workshops are outlined below but please contact me to discuss bespoke training and support :
- Workshop: Giving Sorrow Words
The Covid 19 pandemic has resulted in multiple losses, from manifold deaths, to loss of freedom, routine and social contacts. Theories of bereavement and loss, from Kubler Ross to more contemporary theorists, all emphasise the need to share experiences and this has been shown to reduce feelings of isolation and improve wellbeing. Drawing from this, the session aims to acknowledge the lived reality of working during the pandemic and to provide participants with an opportunity to share their experiences, within a contained and facilitated space.
The Workshop will be experiential and will ask participants to share their experiences of living and working during the pandemic, including any losses which they choose to discuss. A short plenary will share themes from this discussion and a second session will then emphasise discussion of how participants have maintained personal wellbeing during this time, including what they need in terms of support and what are their goals moving forward.
Themes from the session will be collected and fed back, as a means of learning moving forward.
- Workshop: Re-Learning The World
(Attig, 2010)
This three- hour session takes the grief theories of Attig (2010) as a starting point for considering the repercussions of Covid 19. Attig suggested that the task of grief was to ‘relearn’ a world’ which has been irrevocably changed by loss. Other contemporary grief theorists, have also suggested that meaning making is a central driver in processing loss. Whilst many of the conversations around Covid 19 include ‘returning to normal’ this workshop will suggest that our lives have been changed so intensely by the pandemic that we need skills, collective conversations and creative ways of relearning the world and generating meaning as Attig suggests.
Taking this as a starting point, this experiential workshop will ask participants to share their own responses to relearning the world, whilst creating an individualised memory collection. This will include what they would leave behind and what they would wish to take forward, as the lockdown lifts and public spaces re-open. As well as creating a uniquely personal record for each participant, these individual ways of ‘relearning the world’ provide a basis for collective understanding and for strengthening team support and productivity, as well as being a useful model for practice following the multiple losses and accompanying upheavals of Covid 19.
Coaching: I offer one-to one coaching and team building to assist staff and organisations with the impacts of Covid 19. Please contact me to discuss
