Cruse Bereavement Care National Conference 2008
"Perspectives on Grief"
Leicester University, September 18-20 2008

Key speakers 

Resilient children: Promoting continuing bonds and curious conversations
Julie Stokes, OBE
Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Vice Chair of The Childhood Bereavement Network, founder of Winston’s Wish and resident psychologist throughout Channel 4’s The Mummy Diaries  

Enabling dying at home
Professor David Taylor
Professor of Pharmaceutical and Public Health Policy at the School of Pharmacy, University of London, who led the research behind Marie Curie’s campaign Supporting the choice to die at home 

Bereavement and learning disabilities
Dame Jo Williams, DBE
Chief executive of Mencap, member of the National Learning Disability Taskforce and named the most influential person in social care by Community Care magazine 

Disability, abuse and loss
Dr Valerie Sinason
Valerie Sinason is an Adult Psychoanalyst and Child Psychotherapist, currently Director of the Clinic for Dissociative Studies 

Does mourning end?
Professor Darian Leader
Darian Leader is President of the College of Psychoanalysts-UK and a founder member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research (CFAR) in London. He is the author of the bestselling book "The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression"

Other conference highlights include:
Workshops on bereavement-related issues and alternative therapies such as meditation, yoga, storytelling and intuitive painting
Specialist seminars focused on particular client groups, including: Bereavement in prisons, Anticipatory grief, Children, Bereavment by suicide and many more
Excellent opportunities for networking within the beautiful grounds of the University of Leicester, including a stunning 16 acre botanic gardens
First-class accommodation
Superb food including four-course evening meal
An exciting selection of evening entertainments

Book before July 18 for a discounted rate; full conference programme and booking form here (pdf, 660KB)
How to get to Leicester University (pdf, 134KB)

And reporting from the Cruse Bereavement Care National Conference, September 2007
"A very enjoyable three days"

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