Hospice Society of Camrose

Support Groups

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:

Parent Grief Support Group
Suicide Loss Grief Group
Adult Grief Group
Grief Walking Group
Men's Cooking Circle Grief Group

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.

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.

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.

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.

Suicide-Grief Support Group

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.

Death Cafè

"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."

(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.