The best way for you to understand how cancer has affected your parents is to sit them down and ask them!

CanTeen Good Grief workshops are designed to promote positive grieving experiences for young people through support and education. These experiences may result from the death of family or CanTeen members or they may involve the loss of health, independence, confidence, education, employment, friends, limbs, fertility, hair or the teenage years through cancer. The aim of the two day course is to provide friendship and support for young people who are grieving and to provide information about normal grief reactions and strategies for coping with significant loss and change.

• That grief and difficult times are a normal and natural part of living.
• That everyone experiences difficult times in different ways.
• How young people experience stressful situations.
• What helps and what hinders during difficult times.
• How to be comfortable with other people.

"Your whole world is turned upside down, it is so hard to put into words the mix of emotions that you feel. You keep thinking why my child. But even though your heart is so broken you will find strength and the love and support you will receive from your family and friends will astound you." - Pat Johnston, Oamaru

Good Grief is held for CanTeen members three to four times per year and more, if the demand is there.

Check the Events Section to see when the next one in your region is.