Understanding grief & loss in a coronavirus world and beyond – A conversation with Jill McGilvray

This is a FREE event. All registered attendees will receive an email with the link to our Zoom webinar, you will receive this on the afternoon of the event.

This is a night especially to encourage everyone involved in Care and Prayer ministry at St Paul’s, with the opportunity for discussion with your team at the end of the night. But because of all that’s happening in the world, we’ve opened it up to anyone who is interested from St Paul’s or the wider community.

The workshop will be a conversation with Jill as she looks broadly at grief and loss, different types of loss, what it looks like, and how to care for someone. But she’ll also be looking at these issues in the light of COVID-19, so the night will be relevant to everyone.

Due to government restrictions we will not be meeting at church but online via Zoom. But can we encourage you to be creative? Perhaps your team could meet together at someone’s home? Or you could invite someone without online access to your home to watch the workshop together?

Jill brings a wealth of experience with an MA in Chaplaincy, a Graduate Certificate in Loss and Grief and a Graduate Diploma in counselling bereaved children. She has worked as a Bereavement Counsellor at the National Centre for Childhood Grief, and is a lecturer at SMBC and Mary Andrews College in Pastoral Care. She is the Chairperson of the Australian Committee of Langham Partnership International, and the author of God’s Love in Action, Pastoral Care for Everyone

SPEAKER BIO

Jill McGilvray presents some of the lectures in the Pastoral Skills and Methods subject.  She has an M.A. in Chaplaincy, a Graduate Certificate in Loss and Grief from UQ and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Counselling Bereaved Children.  She has worked as a Bereavement Counsellor at the National Centre for Childhood Grief, and on the ministry team at St Matthews Anglican Church West Pennant Hills as well as lecturing at Mary Andrews College.

Her book God’s Love in Action, Pastoral Care for Everyone was published in 2009 and has meant that she has spoken and taught about pastoral care and understanding grief, at churches and conferences in several states of Australia.  She has been involved for several years in the Kairos team at a women’s prison.  She lives in the beautiful Blue Mountains with her artist husband Ian and they love worshipping at Springwood Presbyterian Church.