Dougy Center Volunteer Update, November 2024

November 2024

Skill Review: Self Care

As a term, self-care can seem vague and a little fluffy for what we’re really talking about when it comes to being able to sustain ourselves for working with grief. Once we move past social media’s version of self-care with a lot of candles, motivating mottos in swirly font, and dried lavender bunches, there’s some serious complexity to be explored. That exploring inspired us to think about a new way to conceptualize self-care. One which answers the question: Are my strategies effectively addressing what it is I’m actually needing?

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Take care,

Your Dougy Center Group Coordinators

Write with Laurel Braitman for our Fall Facilitator Inservice

Join your fellow Dougy Center volunteer facilitators for this exciting opportunity to take part in a FREE workshop guided by New York Times bestselling author, Laurel Braitman. Laurel will share her inspiration and provide direction on the power of storytelling and writing for people who are grieving. Knowing something about grief herself, Laurel helps others to communicate bravely and vulnerably in service to their emotional health and wellbeing.

Sunday, November 24, 2024

4 - 5:30 p.m.

Virtual on Zoom

RSVP to cheryl@dougy.org or call 503-775-5683.

Don’t miss this opportunity!

Join Us for Children’s Grief Awareness Month

November is Children’s Grief Awareness Month and there are many ways to get involved.

Sign up for our free webinar, Too Young To Grieve?, happening on Children’s Grief Awareness Day, Thursday, November 21st, 2024 from 10 - 11:30 a.m., virtual on Zoom. Register here.

Listen to Let’s Hear It For The Kids – Grief In Their Own Words, a Grief Out Loud compilation episode highlighting the voices of children and teens.

Follow and share the Flip The Script social media campaign from the National Alliance for Children’s Grief, in collaboration with Dougy Center.

What We're Reading/Listening to/Watching Right Now

Four new Recording Resilience documentaries made by Dougy Center teens this past summer.

Always A Sibling – The Forgotten Mourner’s Guide To Grief by Annie Sklaver Orenstein.

Creating A Companionship With Grief – Anderson Cooper’s conversation with Frances Weller, author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow, for the All There Is podcast.

What grief education resources have you discovered lately? Share them at your next pre-meeting!

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