The Massachusetts Peer Grief Helper Network meets on two Saturdays each month at 9:00 a.m. to learn about peer grief support, share with each other experiences as peer grief helpers, and provide each other with peer support for the grief and challenges peer grief helpers encounter. For more information about the Saturday MA PGH Network meeting, please contact us.
- Reflect on what makes peer grief support helpful — and on how your own experience as a bereaved person has prepared you to help others.
- Review the information from SADOD on how to offer help to a bereaved adult, and learn some of the common characteristics of this kind of grief
- Consider using the Structure of Peer Grief Support Groups guidelines from the SADOD facilitator workshop)
- Check out the videos below. They include several of SADOD’s mini-webinars for peer grief support group facilitators, which cover a number of practical topics.
- Think about SAMHSA’s Working Definition of Recovery. (It offers 10 guiding principles of recovery, generally focused on mental-health and substance-use issues, which could provide a framework to guide peer grief support.)