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Katy’s Blog #6 – Good Grief

17/11/2014

‘Good Grief’ the Young Health Champions take it further! After the completion of the initial CEDAR ‘Life Lessons’ workshop, a focus group was created with the Young Health Champion participants to collect their feedback on the programme. They were very positive and the participants were requesting to learn more! So this led to the development of a second level of education that would allow more information to be taught about how to respond to grief and how to help others.…

Katy’s Blog #4–Day of the Dead:

23/10/2014

Cedar held the second day of ‘Life Lessons’ and all the Youth Health Champions turned up, including one more! This was not a surprise as it had been a captivating lesson that was held the day before, and so the participants seemed eager to learn more. On this day, we were introduced to the ‘Day of the Dead’, which sounds as if it is going to be about something morbid and yet on the contrary was full of colour, brightness,…

CEDAR wins PCC Grant

19/09/2014

CEDAR wins PCC Grant

Life Lessons Takes Off

08/08/2014

CEDAR LIFE LESSONS PILOT PROGRAMME Ten wonderful volunteers, ages 14-21, from the Shropshire Young Health Champion scheme enrolled in the first-ever three-day CEDAR Life Lessons course, which ran from 28th-30th July 2014. This ground-breaking programme was created by the Thanatologist, Dr Judith Wester, founder of CEDAR CIC, to teach young people about death, loss and remembrance in a healthy and stimulating way. The programme was a great success and will be reported on more fully over the coming months. The…

CEDAR CIC gets a helping hand from Innovation 1st

08/08/2014

Cedar CIC About the company CEDAR helps people, young or old, to learn how to talk about death, dying and loss in compassionate and supporting ways In addition, CEDAR helps professionals to expand their general and specialist knowledge around the topics of death, grief and bereavement in a variety of social and cultural circumstances. Whether speaking to a child, young person or adult we all need to understand, accept and respond to death appropriately in order to minimise distress. Challenge…

#ogilvychange Applies Behavioural Insights to Help People Come to Terms with Loss

07/02/2014

https://www.pimpmycause.org/content/information/blog/ogilvy-change-applies-behavioural-insights-to-help-people-come-to-terms-with-loss

Good Grief

14/01/2014

A Marketing Society Discussion: What happened when Ogilvy Change and Pimp My Cause decided to do a pro bono intervention for CEDAR CIC? As the first of an ongoing series of pro bono interventions in partnership with Pimp My Cause, the #ogilvychange team – led by Rory Sutherland – has been brave enough to tackle one of the greatest possible challenges.