01/09/2026
📣CONFERENCE KEYNOTE SPEAKER
How can we use compassion to respond to political grief?
While most of us think of grief as an individual response to loss, political grief encompasses the direct losses experienced by individuals and groups resulting from political policies, ideologies, and oppression enacted and/or perpetuated at the sociopolitical levels.
Join us in Birmingham as Prof Darcy Harris delivers a Keynote on Compassionately Responding to Political Grief at the 15th International CFT Conference.
Darcy will examine the suffering that caused by political leaders, policies and laws around the world, the diverse range of responses to the loss and grief felt both personally and collectively and will identify ways to respond constructively and intentionally through compassion-oriented practices.
Prof Darcy Harris is a Professor Emeritus of Thanatology at King’s University College, Western University in London, Canada, where she has also maintained a private clinical practice for 30 years specialising in change, loss, and transition.
She has published numerous articles, monographs and book chapters and is co-editor for Routledge Publishing Company’s Death, Dying, and Bereavement Series. Darcy has served on the board of directors of the Association for Death Education and Counselling and currently serves on the board of directors of the International Work Group on Death, Dying, and Bereavement.
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📆12-15 Oct 2026
📍, Birmingham (UK) & Online
