Grief That Doesn’t Look Like Grief (Copy)

A Two-Day CPD Workshop for Mental Health Practitioners

Most practitioners were never fully trained in grief. Yet grief — hidden, unnamed, and unrecognised — underlies a significant proportion of what walks through our doors every day.

This workshop gives you the frameworks, language, and approaches to find it, name it, and work with it.

About the Workshop

Grief does not always present directly in sessions and even then what other aspects are missed other than the obvious.. Clients come in exhausted, anxious, low, or stuck — and what underlies it is often a loss that has never been named. It may not be a death. It may not look like sadness. And it may not be something the client or the practitioner has thought of as grief at all.

This two-day workshop explores the full spectrum of grief: ambiguous loss, disenfranchised grief, identity loss, cumulative grief, and prolonged grief. It covers the frameworks that help us understand what people are carrying — from Kübler-Ross in context with contemporary approaches, to continuing bonds theory, meaning reconstruction, the dual process model, and the specific complexity of grief after trauma, suicide, and survivor guilt.

Day 1 builds the foundation: recognising grief in all its forms and understanding how to make sense of it.

Day 2 moves into the approaches that thread through the grief process — and closes with a dedicated session on the ethics of grief work, including the emerging ethical questions around digital afterlife technologies and death bots.

The workshop is grounded in the South African context, with particular attention to cultural diversity, collective mourning traditions, and the ethical obligations of practitioners working across difference.

Live Dates: 22 & 29 August 2026 (8.30 – 5pm)

Available until: 30 November 2026 — recording, CPD points, and all materials remain available

HPCSA CPD Point: 12 Hours — 11 Clinical points + 1 Ethics point

Important NOTE: If you cannot attend the live sessions, the full recording, all materials are still available to you. CPD points available until 30 November 2026