Book Launch & Panel Discussion
Sat, 26 Oct
|The Wheeler Centre, Performance Space
In this event, counselling psychologists, bereavement professionals and subject matter experts on perinatal loss will introduce a new psychotherapeutic children's book on pregnancy and baby loss for use by parents and mental health professionals.


Time & Location
26 Oct 2024, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
The Wheeler Centre, Performance Space, 176 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
About the event
In an expert panel discussion featuring the author and parents with lived experience of baby loss, we introduce a new psychotherapeutic children's picture book for working through grief with bereaved children.
Focussing specifically on sibling bereavement as a result of miscarriage, stillbirth, TFMR and neonatal death, between children and caregivers gently but informatively. It introduces the concept of death, feeling confusing emotions and will help parents explain tricky questions about what happened to the baby, where it went, why it died and how to cope with this maddening and difficult emotion called . this book opens up a space for conversationgrief
After experiencing , parents face significant emotional upheaval. They may not be in the best shape to meet the often complex emotional and psychological needs of their existing children while struggling with their own trauma.perinatal bereavement
“The House in Ollie’s Tummy” was written to support both parents and children through…
Schedule
1 hourIntroducing: Isabelle Oderberg, expert panelist
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1 hourIntroducing: Nicole Hasseline, expert panelist
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