Living Grief: building resilience in the face of ambiguous loss

The Grief Centre is hosting this event - here is what they said about the last one I did for them

"In December, we welcomed Dr Ruth Lawson-McConnell to present our last webinar for 2025 “Working with loss: An attachment-informed, internal family systems approach” which predominantly focused on grief relating to death and bereavement. It turned out to be our most successful webinar of the year and we now have 2 bits of good news: We have just uploaded this webinar for on-demand access. If you missed it you can sign up here: Working with loss: An attachment-informed, internal family systems approach

As this is a large and deep topic, Ruth is presenting a 'part 2' webinar for us in April titled "Living grief: Building client resilience in the face of life's futilities and ambiguous losses".

Ruth will explore the concept of ‘living grief‘ a term to describe non-death related grief, including ambiguous losses and inevitable human futilities. These may include invisible losses like infertility, miscarriages, failing health, being passed over for a promotion again, the loss of a hoped-for future, family estrangement or loneliness in a long-term committed relationship, to name a few.

With insights from Attachment Theory Ruth will present how we can help clients navigate living grief by staying adaptive, soft-hearted and healthily ‘finding our tears’ so that clients can get ‘better, not bitter’. Neufeld’s model of Frustration-Adaptation-Aggression will be used as a framework to work with living grief. Using Internal Family Systems approach, Ruth will present what Self-led grieving over life’s futilities, ambiguous losses, cumulative and complex living grief might look like.