Living with Loss Retreat

• Monday 20 May 2024 to Friday 24 May 2024
• £480.00 24 Hour Rate if booked before the end of December 2023.
• £500.00 24hr rate if booked from January 2024 onwards.
• Tutor: Abi May

Come and join with others who have also experienced life-changing loss through bereavement. The aim of this supported retreat is to help you cope with your grief. Through a creative variety of activities, including led sessions, discussions and quiet reflection, we explore the journey of grief, with a focus on finding a way forward in the changed circumstances that are the result of bereavement. It includes a special time of candle-lighting remembrance. This is a gentle retreat with a Christian perspective, sensitively led by Abi May and team, suitable for those who have lost a spouse or partner, children or other close family members, or who have suffered multiple losses.

This is a full-board retreat, with all meals and retreat materials included. There will be a time in the programme to enjoy the beautiful surroundings of Rydal Hall.

Abi May runs the ‘Living with Loss’ project, which is a member of the National Bereavement Alliance. She is an experienced retreat leader, Christian author and educator, as well as being a bereaved mother. Her grief support retreats and training courses have been held in locations throughout the UK as well as online since 2016. Find out more: www.livingwithloss.co.uk

Watch interviews with Abi and the Living with Loss project participants on this Songs of Praise “Faith and Grief” episode broadcast on 15 January 2023: BBC iPlayer - Songs of Praise - Faith and Grief

“The content of the bereavement sessions was excellent, and the approach varied, interactive and all very clearly presented.”

“I thought Abi led the sessions with sensitivity and compassion.”

“This was a first-class retreat which I found extremely helpful.”

“I had no idea, really, what to expect this week. I am returning home feeling assured that I will survive and continue to take 'small steps' on my journey.”