We are Holding Space!
Holding Space is a small enterprise based in Jersey.
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We offer online support for people experiencing grief.
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Our 8-week workshops are designed for anyone at any stage in their grief
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Using video calling we meet in groups of just 8 participants for two hours, once a week.
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We provide a compassionate and nurturing environment for healing and connection.
​ Our name is based on the action of holding space for someone.
Heather Plett neatly defines it as:"the practice of compassionately witnessing, accepting, and supporting someone without judgement, while retaining your boundaries and sense of self. When we hold space for other people, we open our hearts, offer unconditional support, and let go of judgement and control. We show we are willing to walk alongside another person in whatever journey they’re on without making them feel inadequate, needing to change them, or trying to impact the outcome."
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Chiara
Lloyd-Yeates
I am a Peer to Peer Grief Educator, trained by David Kessler. I am also an End of Life Doula and an Anaesthetic and Recovery Practitioner in Operating Theatres, here in Jersey.
I have worked in a clinical setting for more than 12 years, helping patients to relax and feel safe, at the times when they are most frightened and vulnerable. By listening deeply to them and always honouring them, as people foremost and patients second, I am able to build trusting relationships in a very small window of time.
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I am passionate about the lives, deaths and emotional journeys of all people. My personal journey and conversations with others in grief at my face to face groups, led me to this place. I have been planning and working towards offering these workshops for years. I believe I have the experience and skills to support you in your unique journey with your grief.
Grief is very much a normal response to the loss of someone you love. Many experts in Grief believe that it can't be cured and that there is more benefit to be gained by expressing your pain to others having the same experience, than by talking to one person alone and I echo this. What is often lacking, is the facility to do this, or there are constraints on how soon people are allowed to start. This is where our online grief workshops are so beneficial.
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Through these workshops you can develop the capacity to live alongside your grief, acknowledging its' presence, but no longer overwhelmed by it, the pain is slowly soothed. This of course takes time, but grief shared in community with others, who incidentally are also experts in grief, is a very good step to take in your journey.
My work as facilitator, is to carefully guide each group so that every participant will feel held and supported, heard and better able to see new possibilities ahead of them. I am accompanied in this endeavour by two special people who believe very much in our work and the premiss of Holding Space.
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