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 bereavement – Hamish Elvidge
KEYNOTE SPEAKER Continuing Bonds: Love after Death – Cathie 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 UK – Hamish 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
Questions
and Comments
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