Hospice Support Groups

What is Spiritual Care?

Spiritual Care seeks to enable a person to become emotionally whole by facing their illness with humor, love and compassion. Every illness creates spiritual questions. Who am I? Who am I becoming? What will happen to my loved ones when I am gone? How can I find peace in my heart? If only I had done…?

Spiritual Care moves the individual toward spiritual health by allowing them to speak their own words and thoughts. Wisdom is therefore achieved as the person integrates their heart and mind. By doing this self-care, a person will emotionally heal, and reconnect to their social environment finding new ways to live well.

Our support groups are offered free of charge to the community.

The following services require pre-registration:

Adult Bereavement Support Group
Stepping Stones through Grief
Camp Phoenix

 

VNA Hospice Bereavement Services
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VNA Hospice holds an open-ended drop in center every Monday (except holidays) from 10:00 am to 11:30 am at the Elliot Senior Center.

Adult Bereavement Support Groups

The groups will help explore and understand better the grief process and how to celebrate and honor the loved ones we have lost. The groups meet weekly for 8 weeks and are held several times throughout the year.  The next adult group begins on begins Tuesday, July 8, 2008 through Tuesday, August 26, 2008.  This group will be held between 6-8 PM at the Elliot Senior Health Center at 138 Webster Street in Manchester, NH.

Stepping Stones through Grief

A bereavement group for children and adolescents ages 5-18. The groups will help explore and understand better topics such as the meaning of death, the feelings generated around loss and how to celebrate and honor the loved ones we have lost. Parents are encouraged to stay for an informal support group. The groups meet weekly for 8 weeks. Stepping-Stones is held twice a year in the spring and fall.

Memorial Service-A Celebration of Remembrance

Our annual Memorial Service is held every spring to honor and celebrate the lives of those people we have loved. 

Sunday, May 18, 2008 beginning at 2 PM at Brookside Congregational Church 2013 Elm Street Manchester, NH.

Camp Phoenix

The Phoenix, a legendary bird of Greek Mythology, was brilliantly colored and lived many hundreds of years. Upon dying, the bird was cremated and a new Phoenix arose from the ashes making the legend one of death and renewal.

Pre-registration is required for Camp Phoenix.

Friday, starting at 4 PM, September 12, 2008 through Sunday, ending at 2 PM, September 14, 2008.

Men's Breakfast

A support group serving a light breakfast open to all men whose spouse has died. There is no registration or fee to attend this group. The Men's Breakfast meets at the Elliot Senior Health Center 138 Webster Street on the fourth Friday of every month except July and August between the hours of 9-10:30 AM.