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Draft Programme for 50th Anniversary Gathering

FRIDAY 1 NOVEMBER

Arrival from 2.00 pm

3.15 pm - 4 pm INTERNATIONAL DELEGATES MEETING

3 pm – 5 pm Tea and cakes

5.00 - 6.15 pm PLENARY:
Outline of Gathering

Welcome

KEYNOTE SPEAKER Libby Purves

Patron’s response

6.15-7.30 pm Drinks and mingling in 1911 Bar

6.15-7.30 pm Bereaved 2017 and 2018: Small groups in Manor Room

7.30 - 9.00 pm DINNER – with speaker Baroness Miller

9.15 – 9.45 pm Nuggets of comfort and hope

9.15 – 10.00 pm Showing of film, Say Their Name,
plus
discussion with film-makers Jimmy Edmonds and Jane Harris


SATURDAY 2 NOVEMBER

7.15 - 8.00 am Yoga

7.15 - 8.00 am Tai chi and chi Kung

.15 – 10.30 am INTERNATIONAL

Challenges and innovations within TCF Australia

Challenges and innovations within TCF USA

Challenges and innovations within TCF UK

9.15-10.30 am SHARING SESSIONS/DISCUSSION GROUPS- 10 to choose from

 

WORKSHOPS Grief in story-telling and art

Managing special days

Resilience – the key to surviving loss

The Web of interconnections: grieving alone and together

10.30-11.15 am COFFEE

11.20 am -12.45 pm PLENARY:

Address by President and Patron Countess Mountbatten

Interview Canon Simon Stephens

PTSD and catastrophic grief - Margaret Brearley

KEYNOTE SPEAKER Finding hope after traumatic bereavementHamish Elvidge

KEYNOTE SPEAKER Continuing Bonds: Love after DeathCathie Seigal

12.45 – 2.15 pm LUNCH for all

2.15 - 4.00 pm Relaxation with conversation/free time OR Optional alternatives:

Local guided walk

Workshop for TCF volunteers: Creating Space for Tears, Anger, Laughter and Joy in the Support Group Setting

Showing of film: A Love that Never Dies
and discussion with film makers Jane Harris and Jimmy Edmonds

Knit and natter

Floral therapy

Relaxation workshop

Swimming in hotel swimming pool

Pilates

Outing to Bletchley Park: with packed lunch, leaving hotel at 1.00 pm.
Return at 4 pm.

4.00 - 4.30 pm TEA

4.30 - 5.35 pm PLENARY:

Journeying through grief – KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Thomas Harding

How bereaved parents change the world - Margaret Brearley

5.45-7.00 pm INTERNATIONAL

Support after suicide in UKHamish Elvidge

Language around suicide – John Bradley

5.45 -7.00 pm SHARING SESSIONS/DISCUSSION GROUPS - 10 to choose from

WORKSHOPS
Feel, create and heal - the Gingko leaf (max 15)

On losing two sons – how we coped and what we did

Grief in the workplace

New developments in the world of grief

7.15 – 9.00 pm DINNER: KEYNOTE SPEAKER - Sangeeta Mahajan Finding hope after catastrophe

 

SUNDAY 3 NOVEMBER

7.15 - 8.00 am Pilates

7 - 7.50 am Water aerobics

9.00 – 10.15 am INTERNATIONAL Planning for the future

9.00-10.15 am SHARING SESSIONS/DISCUSSION GROUPS – 9 to choose from

WORKSHOPS Continuing bonds with the loved one

From symbols of grief to symbols of hope

Writing workshop

It’s OK to be broken

Men and Grief

 

9.00 -10.15 am Mindfulness workshop

10.15-11.00 am COFFEE

11.00-11.45 am WALK TO REMEMBER

12.00 -12.55 pm PLENARY:

Growing round grief KEYNOTE SPEAKER Linda Hurcombe

Poems including Joe Lawley’s The Gift

Choir

Celebrating our Founder- Simon Stephens

Thanks and close

1.00- 2.00 pm LUNCH

 

2.15 -4.00 pm ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of The Compassionate Friends UK

Welcome and remarks from the Chair

Minutes of 2018 AGM and matters arising

Presentation of Annual Review

Finance Report

Fundraising Report

Vote on adoption of Annual Review and Financial Report; announcement of result of Trustees’ Election

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