The Weight of Care: Conversations for Caregivers
This interactive workshop with Shannon Hurst introduces the concept of grief literacy — developing the language and tools that help people recognize and navigate the many forms grief can take throughout the caregiving journey.
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Caregiving often carries a quiet emotional weight that is rarely talked about openly. Alongside love, responsibility, and dedication, caregivers frequently experience layers of grief as relationships change and evolve over time.
This interactive workshop introduces the concept of grief literacy — developing the language and tools that help people recognize and navigate the many forms grief can take throughout the caregiving journey.
Participants will explore the emotional realities of caregiving, including anticipatory grief, the complexity of long-term care, and the identity shifts that can occur both during caregiving and after it ends. One of the most common experiences caregivers describe is the profound question that can arise when caregiving is over: Who am I now?
This session introduces several practical frameworks to help make sense of these experiences, including Grief CPR, the TIP / ICE integration process, and the Denali Effect — tools designed to help people understand and integrate grief rather than trying to fix it.
Through guided reflection, shared conversation, and practical tools, participants leave with greater understanding, meaningful language for their experiences, and a deeper sense that they are not alone in what they are carrying.
Biography
Shannon Hurst is a speaker, writer, and facilitator dedicated to advancing grief literacy in communities, workplaces, and care environments. Her work explores the language and lived experience of grief, helping people better understand the many forms loss and transition can take throughout life.
Through interactive workshops and facilitated conversations, Shannon introduces practical frameworks and tools that help individuals and organizations develop a healthier relationship with grief. Her work is grounded in the belief that grief cannot be fixed — but it can be understood, integrated, and carried more openly when people have the language to name what they are experiencing.
She is the author of My Love/Hate Relationship with Death and the founder of Gower Media Group.
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