Workshops: New Hope Retreat
We will offer the following workshops this year, based on interest:
- Hoping and Coping in the First Year: You're a survivor! Exploring the attitude, life skills and strategies for learning to live a new normal in a bewildering world, while holding on to hope.
- Transitioning to Living Single – After we cope initially with the harsh reality of our loss, we are faced with the new reality of being single again. How do we transition to this new role and adjust to the challenges it brings to our lives and the future?
- Complicated Grief – For those whose grief has been further complicated by muliple losses, death by suicide, violence,or various other circumstances which make your grief (and recovery) very complicated.
- Experiencing Grief as a Man – How men grieve differently. Balancing relationships, work and the home. Coping with loss and loneliness.
- Christianity and the Griever: Major life-changing events, such as the loss of a spouse, challenge our faith and beliefs in a radical way. How does our Christian faith equip us to deal with grief and loss, and the resulting changes in our lives.
- Financial Advice: Managing your day to day affairs and estate planning. Practical and sound advice to help you sort out your financial concerns, with time for a question and answer period.
Our Presenters will include:
In Kelowna, our support group is facilitated by Lorna Bohn who is currently serving as president of the NH Board of Directors. Widowed in 1999, Lorna will lead the workshop "Hoping and Coping in the First year", as well as Christianity and the Griever, which explores the spiritual component of grieving.
Roseann Wood , from Vernon , widowed in 2006, currently serves on the New Hope Board of Directors. Sharing from her personal experience, Rose Ann will lead the workshop, "Transitioning to Single Living".
The workshop, "Grieving as a Man " will be facilitated by Jack McLaughlin who was widowed in 1995. Now remarried Jack has lived in Kelowna for almost 30 years where he has been employed as a financial consultant as well as a pastor.
Also presenting will be our founder, Grace Wulff, who began the work of New Hope out of her personal need for understanding and support as a young widow. Grace has remarried and lives in Vernon, BC. Her book "Journey of Hope" which tells her story, will be available for purchase at the Retreat.Grace will be our Friday evening special speaker.
A special presentation by Wendy and Lloyd Klein will address financial management. Wendy is a financial counselor and Lloyd is employed at Vernon Funeral Home. Their combined expertise and experience leads them to give sound advice to the widowed.
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