The Scotland Beginning Experience® Team

Coping with Life Alone is designed as a pre-weekend support program. It is intended for those whose loss is new and for those not yet ready for the Beginning Experience Weekend. 

Sessions focus on topics such as the grief process, changes in family and other relationships, trust, and coping with memories of the deceased spouse or dealing with the former spouse.

This is traditionally run as a 7-10 week programme, meeting on one evening per week, twice yearly. This programme is currently not offered by the Scotland Team. 

This is a new One Day Programme which follows the same themes as the weekly programme brought together into a one day session. By running it for a whole day this programme becomes more accessible to participants who may not be able to commit to weekly sessions. 

This programme is to be launched shortly by the Scotland Team further information will follow.

 The Residential Weekend is structured so that participants can focus on their experiences, their feelings and emotions and work through these to emerge from darkness into the light of a new beginning. 

Similar to the pre-weekend coping programme, the residential weekend is presented by team who have all suffered the loss of a loved one themselves. They are willing to share their experience to help others as they were helped. 

These team members lead participants through a series of presentations, followed by self-reflection and small group sharing. 

The residential Weekend is run twice per year usually in Spring and Autumn. 

This year the Scotland Team will be running the Residential Weekends in March and October.  The March Weekend is held within St Mary's Monastery, Kinnoull, Perth.  The Autumn weekend is held at the Conforti Centre, Coatbridge near Glasgow. 

The cost for the Residential weekend is £185, a £50 Deposit is required to confirm the booking . 

 Following the Residential Weekend there are several additional programmes to help participants in their journey and continue the support offered on the weekend experience. Not every programme is offered by each team. 

Continued Beginnings

Rebuilding

Vision and Leadership

Building Happiness

Beyond Beginning Experience 

This post weekend Programme is offered by the Scotland Team during monthly meetings post residential weekend.