Edwin S. Shneidman Lecture Series

Suicide-Loss Survivor Support Groups: How to Start One and Be the Facilitator

Presenter: Barbara Rubel, MA, CBS, BCETS

Thursday, April 28, 2016
9:00am –3:30pm
Registration 8-9am

$55 per person includes materials and lunch

Marian University, Stayer Center45 S. National Avenue, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin

For more information and to register for Thursday’s event,
please go to: http://www.marianuniversity.edu/Shneidman/

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This program offers strategies to consider when creating suicide-loss survivor support groups. Ideas for communities to assess existing suicide-loss survivor support groups; serve as a basis for strengthening existing groups; and provide guidance to individuals wanting to start a group.

At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:

• Review theories of grief after suicide
• Examine common beliefs about purpose of suicide-loss survivor
• groups
• Assess personal readiness for support group facilitation
• List six universal principles of support group members
• Describe five phases of suicide-loss survivor support groups
• Identify barriers and personality types that can impact group effectiveness, and strategies for managing them
• Discuss 10 tools for effective communication in group facilitation
• Identify contributersto burnout, compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma