About our playbacks
Can't make it live? Every workshop is saved in our Playbacks area for you to watch back in your own time, at your own pace. Whether you missed a session, want to revisit one that landed deeply, or simply weren't up to being on a call that day, the playbacks are there whenever you're ready.
A treat from me to you, watch some of our top workshop playbacks below…
grief and family dynamics with julia samuel
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Join Amber and leading psychotherapist and author Julia Samuel for this interactive workshop exploring grief and family dynamics.
We’re really excited and honoured to have Julia with us for this workshop. Julia, as many of you might know in this space, is a leading voice in the grief world and has over 30 years of experience working with bereaved individuals and families. She is the author of 3 Sunday Times Bestselling books, and for this workshop her book “Every Family Has A Story” will be apt for our conversation. Read more about Julia further below!
In Grief Gang, we hear consistently how difficult, challenging and new it can be when a death has happened- the shift in a family dynamic. Regardless of who it is who has died, the chess board has flipped and players have changed. We find ourselves fumbling in the dark with how to come to terms with our new roles in a family, where we might want to challenge that, adjusting to relationships changing and just how to continue as a family without a vital person/s missing.
What we aim to explore in this workshop through Julia’s extensive history and knowledge:
Understanding in depth why families are disrupted during a bereavement and how it can present itself
Highlighting the many roles in a family and how they can be impacted in different loss experiences (for example, being a bereaved child and navigating the surviving parental relationship, being a bereaved sibling and navigating the weight of supporting your parents, being a bereaved partner and navigating and supporting children or in-laws)
Ways we can support ourselves as we shift through these dynamic changes.
How we can advocate for ourselves in family dynamics and open up conversations with loved ones if we so wish to.
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Julia Samuel MBE is a leading UK psychotherapist who worked for decades in the NHS. She is Founder Patron of Child Bereavement UK an organisation she played a significant part for 25 years. She is a former Vice President of BACP.
Julia has written three nest selling books, Grief Works, This Too Shall Pass and she published Every Family Has a Story. Each of her books have been published in over 17 foreign territories. She has written for all the national newspapers and broadcast on many TV and radio programmes.
Her new podcast series Therapy Works was released in October 2022 and was immediately in the top 10 Apple charts, no 1 on mental health.1.3 million downloads to date. In 2021 Julia produced a 5* rated app for those who grieve, Grief Works – a 28 day course to support you in your grief which has been 5* rated, Apple featured it numerous times as a recommended and trending app.
Julia has been married for over 4 decades, has 4 adult children and 10 grandchildren.
Find Julia here.
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Grief and continuing bonds with Dr mary-Frances O-connor
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Join Amber and Dr Mary-Frances O’Connor for this workshop on exploring grief, attachments and how they are disrupted and altered in grief.
Understanding grief really begins with understanding love and our attachment relationships. Grief is the natural response of both the brain and the body to the death or loss of a close person.
Because the brain believes that our attachments are everlasting, it struggles to understand the world when our close relationships are no longer physically present. Natural reactions in grief include protest and despair and accepting that these intense responses are normal and that we can learn to work with these waves of grief, while also leaning on our support networks for hope, can help us weather the integration of loss into our lives.
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About dr Mary-Frances:
Mary-Frances O’Connor, PhD is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Arizona, where she directs the Grief, Loss and Social Stress (GLASS) Lab. She earned a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Arizona in 2004 and following a faculty appointment at UCLA, she returned to the University of Arizona in 2012. Her research focuses on the response to loss with functional neuroimaging, immune assays, and clinical interviews. Dr. O’Connor also researches difficulties adapting following the death of a loved one, termed prolonged grief (included in the revised DSM-5). She believes that a clinical science approach toward the experience and physiology of grief can improve psychological treatment. Dr. O’Connor’s two books, The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss (2022) and The Grieving Body: How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing (2025) have garnered praise from peers and literary critics alike and led to speaking engagements around the world.
In addition to her outstanding record of scholarship, Dr. O’Connor is a highly proficient and beloved teacher and mentor, honored with the Undergraduate Biology Research Program (UBRP) “Outstanding Mentor Award” in 2014. In 2020, she organized a multidisciplinary research group called the Neurobiology of Grief International Network(NOGIN). Under her leadership, the group has held four international conferences, initially supported by the National Institute on Aging. Dr. O’Connor has authored research papers published in a wide range of peer-reviewed journals, from American Journal of Psychiatry to Psychological Science. Dr. O’Connor’s work has been discussed in the New York Times, TheGuardian, Washington Post, and Scientific American.
Find Mary-Frances here:
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Finding words for grief with Sara Rian
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