Video: Beginning questions (Kristensen & Hedtke, TC13, 2016)
Questions that begin sessions and open up possibilities for the stories of dead babies to continue to live on
Video: Questions about the influence of the unborn child (Kristensen & Hedtke, TC13, 2016)
Questions to counter those predominant discourses about death and grief that can often silence the parents in talking about their ongoing relationship with the child who has died
Reading: Still Alive workshop slides (Kristensen & Hedtke, TC13, 2016)
Workshop Slides of the Still Alive presentation with Helene Grau Kristensen & Lorraine Hedtke (TC13, 2016)
Video: Questioning grand narratives (Hedtke & Winslade, 2008)
John Winslade outlines a number of the western worlds grand narratives that govern and structure much of everything we think and do.
Video: Questioning grief psychology (Hedtke & Winslade, 2008)
Lorraine Hedtke questions a primary assumption of grief psychology - that grieving should be treated as a natural process and that, over time, it will follow a natural course toward some kind of healing.
Video: Freud and grief psychology (Hedtke & Winslade, 2008)
The underpinnings of Freuds writings on death have become more than descriptions as they have taken on the aura of universal prescription.
Video: Prescribing normative stages of grief (Hedtke & Winslade, 2008)
Lorraine and John question Kübler-Ross’s (1969) stages of dying (along with other primary authors supporting of this work) and show how the work is so well known that it is not uncommon for people to calibrate their grief experience against the expectations drawn from the work
Video: Multiple stories about grief (Hedtke & Winslade, 2008)
Lorraine discusses therapeutic stories that are comforting, invigorating, sustaining, and (dare we say it) even at times beautiful. Her narrative way of working upends the focus on the 'surviving suffering' and letting go narrative.
Video: Background discoures about grief (Hedtke & Winslade, 2008)
John and Lorraine discuss and follow a Foucauldian tradition of responding to, and, in many instances, challenging, the dominant discourses from our wider cultural world that have become incorporated into grief psychology
Video: Questions raised about grief (Hedtke & Winslade, 2008)
Lorraine and John outline a “new wave” of grief theories marked by specific shifts in understanding.
