Hospice Support Groups
Hospice provides a selection of support groups throughout the year.
Groups are offered when demand is sufficient and facilitators are available; check with the office for dates:
If you do not see a group that fits your needs, please make a request by contacting the office at 780.608-.0636 or email admin@camrosehospice.com
Groups are offered when demand is sufficient and facilitators are available; check with the office for dates:
- Parent Grief Support Group
- Suicide Loss Grief Group
- Adult Grief Group
- Grief Walking Group
- Men's Cooking Circle Grief Group
- Caregiver Support Group
- Cancer Survivor Support Group
- Children's Art Therapy Grief Group (ages 7-12)
- Teen Grief Group (ages 13+)
If you do not see a group that fits your needs, please make a request by contacting the office at 780.608-.0636 or email admin@camrosehospice.com
Grief-Support Walking Group
This drop-in walking group meets year round on
Wednesday mornings at 9:30 a.m.
We meet at the Hospice Office for a leisurely walk followed by coffee and conversation.
During summer we walk outside around Mirror Lake Center, lower level (lake-side).
During winter we walk inside the Camrose Recreation Center around the track (2nd floor).
Please register when you arrive.
Wednesday mornings at 9:30 a.m.
We meet at the Hospice Office for a leisurely walk followed by coffee and conversation.
During summer we walk outside around Mirror Lake Center, lower level (lake-side).
During winter we walk inside the Camrose Recreation Center around the track (2nd floor).
Please register when you arrive.
Everyone affected by loss is welcome to attend.
Parent Grief Support
This group is for adults who have experienced the loss of a child, of any age. This group runs for 6 weeks.
Topics include marriage, surviving children dynamics, pregnancy loss and strategies to cope as a family.
Start date for the next group will be announced on the Events page.
Topics include marriage, surviving children dynamics, pregnancy loss and strategies to cope as a family.
Start date for the next group will be announced on the Events page.
Adult Grief Support Group
Who should come?
This support group is for adults who have experienced a loss.
Interested participants will be contacted by a facilitator who will discuss the program content, answer your questions and discuss readiness for group grief work.
Interested participants will be contacted by a facilitator who will discuss the program content, answer your questions and discuss readiness for group grief work.
Topics covered?
- Telling Our Story
- Soulfulness of Grief
- Signs and Symptoms
- Feelings
- Looking Back
- The Business of Reality
- Self-compassion
- The Legacy
- Grief’s Journey
Group work includes discussion and activities, facilitator presentations, videos, writing exercises, journaling, and knowledge sharing. You are invited to share as you feel comfortable. You may observe only or step out of the group at any time.
More information?
Start date for the next group will be announced on the Events page.
Men's Cooking Circle
Men's Cooking Circle is an opportunity to learn basic cooking skills, meet other men, cook and eat together, and to engage in conversation with men who are experiencing grief. This is a partnership program with Hospice, Alberta Health Services, Safeway/Sobeys, Camrose Association for Community Living, and community facilitators.
The program runs one evening per week for five weeks, and includes a grocery store tour, nutritional information, cooking instruction, dining on the meals we prepare, and of course, rich conversation on all things grief and mourning for men. All grieving men are welcome.
Start date for the next group will be announced on the Events page.
Start date for the next group will be announced on the Events page.
Caregiver's Support Group
US - Understanding Support is a gathering of support for those in caregiver roles.
Meeting twice monthly, this group provides debriefing, resources, and connections for personal caregivers.
US is:
* US will create space for the sharing of your unique story.
* US explores issues that may be a cause of caregiver fatigue.
* US offers suggestions for coping with day-to-day caregiving challenges that you may encounter in caring for a loved-one.
Start date for the next group will be announced on the Events page.
Meeting twice monthly, this group provides debriefing, resources, and connections for personal caregivers.
US is:
- Face to face contact to share your experiences & concerns
- Opportunity to create supportive friendships
- Reducing isolation, an opportunity to get out of home
- Regular, bi-monthly meetings
- Local people, local connections
- Avoiding Tunnel Vision
- Sharing feelings
- Focusing on that which you can control
- Finding the silver lining
* US will create space for the sharing of your unique story.
* US explores issues that may be a cause of caregiver fatigue.
* US offers suggestions for coping with day-to-day caregiving challenges that you may encounter in caring for a loved-one.
Start date for the next group will be announced on the Events page.
Cancer Survivor Support Group
Are You:
Together we can help and support each other through sharing our questions, knowledge, and experiences.
This drop-in group.
Start date for the next group will be announced on the Events page.
- A cancer survivor
- A cancer patient
- A caregiver or supporter of someone with cancer
Together we can help and support each other through sharing our questions, knowledge, and experiences.
This drop-in group.
Start date for the next group will be announced on the Events page.
This intake-based group is for anyone, 18 years and older, who has been affected by a death by suicide.
Start date for the next group will be announced on the Events page.
Start date for the next group will be announced on the Events page.
Art for the Heart: A Child-Grief Support Group
This 5-week program is for children ages 7-12 who are grieving a loss. Children will engage various art forms as a way to explore their grief.
Through art and conversation participants will be skillfully guided by our team of trained and enthusiastic facilitators in a safe, welcoming and compassionate setting.
Parents and guardians are welcome to participate with their children. A group readiness conversation will be scheduled to meet the facilitators and to answer questions about the program.
As with all Hospice programs, there are no fees to participate in this program
To register, or for more information contact the Hospice office at 780.608.0636 or email admin@camrosehospice.com
Start date for the next group will be announced on the Events page.
Through art and conversation participants will be skillfully guided by our team of trained and enthusiastic facilitators in a safe, welcoming and compassionate setting.
Parents and guardians are welcome to participate with their children. A group readiness conversation will be scheduled to meet the facilitators and to answer questions about the program.
As with all Hospice programs, there are no fees to participate in this program
To register, or for more information contact the Hospice office at 780.608.0636 or email admin@camrosehospice.com
Start date for the next group will be announced on the Events page.
"Bringing grief and death out of the shadow is our spiritual responsibility, our sacred duty. By so doing, we may be able to feel our desire for life once again and remember who we are, where we belong, and what is sacred."
Through open conversation in a natural, comfortable setting, we can bring death out of silence and increase awareness of death while helping people make the most of their lives.
Join the conversation at this drop-in, no-fee gathering where all things death and dying are open for discussion.
Note, this is not a grief therapy or support group; rather, it is a conversation forum.
Start date for the next group will be announced on the Events page.
(Francis Weller, the Wild Edge of Sorrow)
Through open conversation in a natural, comfortable setting, we can bring death out of silence and increase awareness of death while helping people make the most of their lives.
Join the conversation at this drop-in, no-fee gathering where all things death and dying are open for discussion.
Note, this is not a grief therapy or support group; rather, it is a conversation forum.
Start date for the next group will be announced on the Events page.