Looking After Ourselves, our Personal Health and Wellbeing with AtaLoss: Session 5
Host: Dr Roger Greene, Deputy Chief Executive, AtaLoss
If you’ve been or are currently affected by loss, grief or bereavement, you’ll know that it can be difficult to talk about your experiences and to process how you’re feeling.
From May-July, Dr. Roger Greene, Deputy Chief Executive at AtaLoss, the bereavement support charity, will be hosting a new series of supportive twilight sessions that we hope you’ll find helpful.
Roger will be exploring different dimensions of bereavement, strategies to manage different emotions, how to help others and the language we use to do that, and the importance of supporting our personal health and wellbeing during this difficult time.
Catch up on Session 1: Understanding Grief, Loss and Bereavement here.
Catch up on Session 2: The 7 Dimensions of Bereavement here.
Catch up on Session 3: Navigating and Processing the Pain of Grief here.
Catch up on Session 4: How to Help Others Through Grief, Loss and Bereavement here.
In Session five (the final session) Roger explores Looking After Ourselves, our Personal Health and Wellbeing:
- Practical tips for maintaining personal health
- Practical tips for maintaining emotional balance
- And how to maintain these whilst navigating grief
Video time
30 minutes
About Roger
Roger’s wife died of COVID-19 in a care home during the pandemic after contracting early onset dementia. He has a professional background in behavioural science, with extensive experience of front-line leadership in the public, commercial and charitable sectors over 30 years.
He was Chief Executive of two NHS Trusts in the south-east of England over 12 years, part-time CEO of a charity for three years, followed by 14 years as a co-owner and Director of a commercial consultancy.
As well as being Deputy CEO, Roger is leading engagement and partnership with the public, health and bereavement sectors for AtaLoss, as well as its training services.
Session 4
Session four explored how to help others through grief, loss and bereavement. Roger discussed:
- Practical ways to help others through grief
- What to do and say to help others
- What to avoid doing or saying to help others
