ABSTRACT

This chapter presents the exercises that are intended to enable all participants involved in training sessions to explore and elaborate their stories of death and bereavement, value their abilities. It extends their practices through sharing and mutually validating their knowledges and competences. The exercises are intended to create opportunities for participants to explore their own beliefs, to elaborate their repertoires of personal and professional narratives about death, dying, and bereavement, and to practise talking about death with others. Participants are invited to brainstorm where their different beliefs and stories about death and mourning come from, who might share those ideas, and who might hold different ones. The psychologist working with a 11-year-old Nigel described a complexity of intercommunication between the child, the family, and the medical and nursing team, so that reports of the child's health status were often contradictory or unclear. In co-constructing emotions exercise, participants can practise coordinating communication about feelings without involving precise descriptions of the emotions.