Death and dying is a frequent, if not expected, outcome for our clients within many of our care settings. However, with our professional hats ‘ON’ we often don’t feel permissioned to grieve the very people we spend so much time and energy caring for. 

 In this presentation we’ll examine how we can grieve for the people we serve, before and after their death, and how we can change the culture within our organizations to support and permission us to do so. We will also learn how to maintain healthy boundaries when grieving so as to not fall into the states of empathetic distress or moral injury.