Anchored — Grief, Bereavement and Loss

About Anchored — Grief, Bereavement and Loss

Loss is one of the most constant realities of human experience — and one of the least adequately prepared for in professional training. Helping professionals encounter grief in every field they work in: in consultation rooms, in classrooms, in offices, in places of worship, and in communities that carry the accumulated weight of loss across generations. Yet most professionals receive little more than a passing introduction to grief theory, and almost none are equipped for the specific grief landscape of South Africa — a society shaped by extraordinary diversity, by the legacy of apartheid, by the HIV and AIDS epidemic, by violent crime, and by the structural grief of poverty and inequality.

Anchored is a Short Learning Programme (SLP) designed to change that. It provides helping professionals with a rigorous, contextually grounded, and practically oriented foundation in grief theory and practice — one that takes both the universal dimensions of grief and the specific realities of the South African context seriously.

Modules

Is this programme right for you?

Social workers and social auxiliary workers, educators (school counsellors, teachers, school social workers), lay counsellors, pastoral care practitioners, HR professionals, community health workers, and anyone who regularly supports others through loss.

How you will be assessed

Multiple-choice questionnaires & Capstone Project

What you get with this programme

A digital module reader for each module, giving you structured, academically rigorous content you can engage with at your own pace — plus a curated collection of additional digital resources to deepen your learning and support your professional practice.

Who you will learn from