Grief Guides: Mapping Compassionate Support - SoBS
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As a SoBS volunteer, you play a vital role in offering hope, understanding, and connection to those navigating the aftermath of suicide loss. SoBS and Grief Guides share the goal of expanding access to high-quality grief education for those who give so much of themselves to others, and that's why SoBS is proud to provide foundational grief training to all 600 volunteers. This represents a significant investment — not only in you as individuals, but in the future of SoBS and in the quality of support we offer to every person who reaches out to us.
This collaboration recognises that your lived experience is at the very core of what makes SoBS so special. The Grief Guides training doesn’t replace that — it complements and deepens it, offering practical frameworks, fresh insight, and tools to help you support others while also caring for yourselves. It’s an opportunity to grow, strengthen, and sustain the incredible work you already do. This training is not only grounded in lived experience, but also aligned with the most current research and national standards in our field.
This collaboration recognises that your lived experience is at the very core of what makes SoBS so special. The Grief Guides training doesn’t replace that — it complements and deepens it, offering practical frameworks, fresh insight, and tools to help you support others while also caring for yourselves. It’s an opportunity to grow, strengthen, and sustain the incredible work you already do. This training is not only grounded in lived experience, but also aligned with the most current research and national standards in our field.
This training will:
This is your opportunity to invest in yourself — so you can continue doing what you do best: walking alongside others through loss with skill, understanding, and care.
In this CPD-accredited course, you will get a comprehensive understanding of grief, preparing you on how to use the Grief Map. This depth of knowledge will be foundational, enabling you to feel confident when supporting someone during an emotionally challenging conversation.
Once this course has been completed the resources and lessons will remain available to you, to revisit and continually build your skills. After you have completed this course you will be able to register and attend the 90-minute tutor led Teams meeting. In that session you will gain further insight and have the opportunity to check your understanding with the trainer.
In this CPD-accredited course, you will get a comprehensive understanding of grief, preparing you on how to use the Grief Map. This depth of knowledge will be foundational, enabling you to feel confident when supporting someone during an emotionally challenging conversation.
Once this course has been completed the resources and lessons will remain available to you, to revisit and continually build your skills. After you have completed this course you will be able to register and attend the 90-minute tutor led Teams meeting. In that session you will gain further insight and have the opportunity to check your understanding with the trainer.
What To Expect
Relatable and transferable knowledge. The insights you will get in this training will be useful across your life, from work to community to family. Grief is a part of the human condition, but when we learn how to adapt and grow around our grief, the less life complications we encounter.
Each stage of the training builds upon the last. Our intention is for this to be a process of learning and building upon your understanding and skillset, rather than a one-off training session. The self-learning modules will continually evolve, remaining accessible and contemporary.
Meet the instructors
Martin Roddis consults, creates and delivers innovative content to help organisations build foundational skills when interacting with the bereaved. He created the Grief First Aid course for Cruse, raising awareness of grief in the workplace, as well as developing the pilot for the peer-to-peer support service for those bereaved by suicide. Martin has extensive training experience in every sector, from volunteers to blue light services to the NHS to financial services to media.
Trudie Bamford creates and delivers training for organisations like Cruse, on topics ranging from neurodivergence & grief to traumatic loss. She is also a grief counsellor with a wealth of experience of supporting people after loss, with specialist experience on traumatic grief, such as after suicide or drug overdose.
Trudie Bamford creates and delivers training for organisations like Cruse, on topics ranging from neurodivergence & grief to traumatic loss. She is also a grief counsellor with a wealth of experience of supporting people after loss, with specialist experience on traumatic grief, such as after suicide or drug overdose.
Patrick Jones - Course author
Grief Guides Ltd. 4 Dunston House, Chesterfield.
Phone number: +44 7593 790399
Phone number: +44 7593 790399
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