Children’s Grief Awareness Week 2022 is running from 17th-23rd November. The theme this year is ‘What helps?’ and along with many other children’s bereavement support organisations and charities across the UK we have been asking children and young people to take part in a ‘Sharing Shapes’ activity.
This activity has given everyone the opportunity to tell us what helps them when they’re grieving, or dealing with lots of tricky emotions after someone important to them has died. Many children and young people have told us that it’s really good to think that someone else will see their sharing shape and it might help them too. So this activity in itself has also helped!
Sophie, one of our Community Based Counsellors, told us that looking through photos and sharing memories with her family helps her.
Over the course of the week we will be sharing what the children and young people accessing support with Guy’s Gift have told us works for them. Maybe there will be some strategies and ideas which will work for you and your family, or maybe you’d like to share your own ‘Sharing Shape’ with us? You can find the resource here if you’d like to take part. Simply complete your sharing shape and then send it over to us at info@guysgift.co.uk to be included in the gallery.
To view a mural of sharing shapes created by others across the whole of the UK, take a look at the Childhood Bereavement Network wesbite: https://childhoodbereavementnetwork.org.uk/about-cbn/childrens-grief-awareness-week/sharing-shapes-mural - can you spot yours?
