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New Cwm Taf Morgannwg creative workshop - Finding Hope within Loss and Bereavement

Finding Hope within Loss

Finding Hope within Loss and Bereavement Icon Our Health Board Chaplaincy Service, together with our Arts in Health Service and Improvement team, started an improvement project aimed at supporting people through grief, death, and loss using creative arts back in October 2022.

The community-based workshop, ‘Finding Hope within Loss and Bereavement’ was the first of its kind in Cwm Taf Morgannwg and was a collaboration with our CTM2030 partner - The Lighthouse Community Project, located in Tonyrefail in Rhondda Cynon Taf.

Over six sessions, CTM Chaplain and Project Lead, Wendy Evans used creative methods to enable participants to share thoughts and feelings about grief, loss, and bereavement.  This included creative visualisation, story making, drawing, creative writing, and music.

Feedback from participants of the 6-week workshop indicated that ongoing support would be valuable to participants and to those who were not able to commit to a 6-week programme but were in need of support.  

Wendy says: “The workshops have been designed to guide participants safely, at their own pace, on a journey of sharing and support. During each session, there is opportunity to reflect about grief, death, and loss, which can sometimes be difficult to discuss or share in day to day life.

“We are so pleased to be working in partnership with our local community, to highlight the benefits of creative arts and to hopefully bring hope to people who are affected by feelings of loss and bereavement”.

‘Finding Hope within Loss and Bereavement’ and the subsequent ‘At A Loss’ Cafés have grown since our initial community partnership formed with the Lighthouse Project in March 2022, following a community engagement event to discuss our Health Board’s work towards our organisational strategy – CTM2030: Our Health, Our Future.

If you would like to know more about the cafés or think this would be of interest to your local community, please get in contact with the Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care teams at Royal Glamorgan, Princess of Wales or Prince Charles Hospitals.