Multiple dates available.
Course/Workshop: Understanding the Autistic Person’s Perspective of Death, Dying and Bereavement
Audience: Open to all
Duration: 3 hours
Cost: £40 per person includes tea/coffee and biscuits (cost subject to change from April 2026)
Capacity: 15 delegates per session
Level: Novice to Competent * / ***
This insightful course explores how Autistic People may experience death, dying, and bereavement in ways that differ from neurotypical expectations.
Participants will learn to:
- Understand the emotional, sensory, and communicative challenges Autistic People may face in grief
- Recognise diverse and non-traditional expressions of loss
- Offer empathetic, person centred tailored to neurodiverse needs
This bespoke and responsive learning session equips you with the knowledge, skills, and attributes to provide truly inclusive bereavement support.
Why choose St Richard’s Hospice as your learning provider?
- Delivered face to face by experienced facilitators and expert palliative and end of life care clinicians
- Tailored to individual and team learning needs
- Offer real life, practice-based applications
- Contribute towards professional revalidation requirements
- Learning outcome levels mapped to Benner’s framework for clinical competence
- By choosing our courses and workshops, you are supporting patients, their loved ones and bereaved people across Worcestershire.
Our courses and workshops take place in our hospice building in Worcester (unless an alternative venue has been confirmed by our team). A peaceful retreat, with free wi-fi and on-site parking, St Richard’s Hospice is based in Wildwood Drive, Worcester WR5 2QT, opposite the Worcester Woods Country Park.
Benner’s framework for clinical competence:
* Novice
** Advanced beginner
*** Competent
**** Proficient
***** Expert