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18th to 20th September 2008

Key speakers:

Resilient children: Promoting continuing bonds and curious conversations, Julie Stokes, OBE, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Vice Chair of The Childhood Bereavement Network, founder of Winston's Wish and resident psychologist throughout Channel 4's The Mummy Diaries

Enabling dying at home, Professor David Taylor, Professor of Pharmaceutical and Public Health Policy at the School of Pharmacy, University of London, who led the research behind Marie Curie's campaign Supporting the choice to die at home

Bereavement and learning disabilities, Dame Jo Williams, DBE, Chief executive of Mencap, member of the National Learning Disability Taskforce and named the most influential person in social care by Community Care magazine

Disability, abuse and loss, Dr Valerie Sinason, Adult Psychoanalyst and Child Psychotherapist, currently Director of the Clinic for Dissociative Studies

Does mourning end? Professor Darian Leader, President of the College of Psychoanalysts-UK and a founder member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research (CFAR) in London. Author of the bestselling book "The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression"

Other conference highlights include:

Workshops on bereavement-related issues and alternative therapies such as meditation, yoga, storytelling and intuitive painting.

Specialist seminars focused on particular client groups, including: Bereavement in prisons, Anticipatory grief, Children, Bereavement by suicide and others.

Opportunities for networking within the beautiful grounds of the University of Leicester, including a stunning 16 acre botanic gardens

First-class accommodation
Excellent food including four-course evening meal
A selection of evening entertainment

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