Online Seminars on Grief Literacy - Seminar 7: Measuring and Quantifying Grief Literacy: Towards a Grief Literacy Index, Ng Yong Hao, Hong Kong
The purpose of this series of online seminars is to bring the concept of Grief Literacy to life by highlighting its various aspects and broad impact. There are seven one-hour seminars planned with international leaders in the field of Grief Literacy research and practice between September 2024 and March 2025. Each seminar will involve 30 minutes of presentation followed by 30 minutes of questions and dialogue. This seminar on 25 March 2025 is the seventh seminar.
Seminar 7: Measuring and Quantifying Grief Literacy: Towards a Grief Literacy Index
Measuring and quantifying grief literacy can provide advocates with a strategy to communicate more effectively with stakeholders, such as policymakers, who are often motivated by numerical data and metrics. The seminar will discuss the benefits and challenges of creating a grief literacy measurement. The discussion will draw on the experiences from an ongoing project to develop the measurement. It will also reflect on the possibility and future plan for a grief literacy index.
Speaker: Ng Yong Hao, MSW, RSW(Singapore), FT, is a PhD candidate at the University of Hong Kong. Before embarking on the PhD programme, Yong Hao worked as a social worker in both community and medical settings. His practice and research include compassionate communities, non-death loss and grief, and grief literacy, as well as their implications for clinical practices and systemic issues.
Registration
Attendance at this seminar is free. After registration the zoom link will be sent to you a few days before the seminar.
More information and registration for other seminars go to the overview below.
Background Series of online Seminars on Grief Literacy
Grief and loss are fundamentally human experiences, touching on a very universal and existential layer of life. Yet there is great embarrassment in societies around this topic. Grief Literacy is a concept coined in 2020 by a sub-group of the International Workgroup for Death Dying Bereavement (IWGDDB). Grief Literacy is: a) The capacity to access, process, and use knowledge regarding the experience of loss. b) This capacity is multidimensional: it comprises knowledge to facilitate understanding and reflection, skills to enable action, and values to inspire compassion and care. c) These dimensions connect and integrate via the interdependence of individuals within socio-cultural contexts (Breen et al., 2020). The transformative value of the concept consists in making visible the extent to which current societies or cultures avoid grief and helping us to formulate new strategies to address it. Specifically, it addresses a lack of appropriate compassionate responses to people in mourning.
The purpose of this series of online seminars is to bring the concept of Grief Literacy to life by highlighting its various aspects and broad impact. We hope this series will contribute to a greater awareness and sensitivity of how people respond to their own grief or the grief of others, and will lead to an increase in the compassionate support of ordinary people among themselves.
Information
There are seven one-hour seminars planned with international leaders in the field of Grief Literacy research and practice between September 2024 and March 2025. Each seminar will involve 30 minutes of presentation followed by 30 minutes of questions and dialogue. The seminars will be held online and are intended for a broad audience, including students, PhDs, staff, volunteers, citizens, and interested professionals/parties from (grief) networks or care institutions.Collaboration
Together we invest in a more grief literate society. This is a collaboration between the following universities, organisations and institutes:
- Informal care & Care ethics, University for Humanistic Studies, the Netherlands
- Compassionate Communities Centre of Expertise (COCO) at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
- Curtin University Perth, Australia
- Policy Science Unit, Kyoto University School of Medicine, Japan
- Agora, knowledge and development organization: social approach to palliative care, the Netherlands
- Department of Human Centered Design, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
- Pharos, Dutch Centre of Expertise on Health Disparities, Netherlands
- The Local Social Policy Unit for City and PCSW Bruges, Belgium
- Centre of Expertise Perspective in Health, Avans University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
- Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- School of Social Work, Renison University College, affiliated with the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Social Work and Social Administration, Faculty of Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
- Caring connections: A Hope and Comfort in Grief Program. University of Utah College of Nursing
| Topic | Speaker | Date |
| Seminar 1 | Lauren Breen Curtin University Australia | 24 SEPTEMBER 2024 2 PM CET |
| Seminar 2 | Mary Ellen Macdonald Halifax, Canada | 15 OCTOBER 2024 2 PM CET |
| Seminar 3 | Susan Cadell Ontario, Canada | 19 NOVEMBER 2024 2 PM CET |
| Seminar 4 | Carl Becker School of Medicine Kyoto University Japan | 4 DECEMBER 2024 2 PM CET |
| Seminar 5 Grief Literacy, societal impact (this information will be available soon) | Bianca Neumann-Morris UK | 14 of JANUARY 2025 2 PM CET |
| Seminar 6 | Kathie Supiano Salt Lake City, VS | 20 February 2025 4 PM CET |
| Seminar 7 Measuring and Quantifying Grief Literacy: Towards a Grief Literacy Index | Yong Hao Ng Hong Kong | 25 MARCH 2025 10 CET |
| Contactpersoon | Anne Goossensen |
| Locatie | online |
| griefliteracy@uvh.nl | |
| Datum | 25-3-2025 |
| Openingstijden | 10 CET |