Family care in a young terminally ill family

Working in a young family where death has announced itself

“If only I had learned this in my education.”

As a professional, what do you do when you walk into a young family where death is on the doorstep?
Where a father or mother knows the end is near, where children are still playing but also feel something is wrong, and where time is suddenly everything?

This lecture is about working in the heart of vulnerability – with knowledge, care and courage.

Who is this lecture for?

For maternity nurses, district nurses, family counselors, grief professionals, (child) psychologists, teachers, youth care workers and others who work with families in which a parent or child is incurably ill.

Whether you already have experience in loss counseling, or are seeking tools for this intensely vulnerable work – this lecture will provide you with language, insight and direction.

What to expect.

A frank and instructive lecture based on a real story. No theory detached from practice, but a true story in which you are taken step by step:

• How, as a professional, you help a family say goodbye – while life goes on

• How to support parents in making memories that last

• What children need in different ages

• How to be there without taking over

• What helps in the dark, and what exactly doesn’t

• And how one family, after saying goodbye, is slowly trying to pick up the thread again

The lecture is honest, moving, confrontational and hopeful. You will learn how closeness and professional distance can go together – and how you can make a difference in a situation where nothing can be taken for granted anymore.

Why this lecture?

Because young families in this situation need more than medical care.
Because as a professional, you have impact – in words, actions and presence.
And because guiding goodbyes in a young family requires more than just your heart.

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