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#21 - Navigating Grief
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- Understanding How to Support Survivors of Personal Loss
Guest Speaker - Heidi Snow, Founder/CEO - AirCraft Casualty Emotional Support Services (ACCESS)
Trigger warning: We will be discussing topics that involve death and sudden loss of loved ones based on real experiences, tragic losses and past disasters. If one of these things are triggering for you, please skip this episode.
Heidi Snow has been providing care to thousands of people affected by air disasters and sudden loss for over 25 years. In 1996, Heidi founded the non-profit organization, AirCraft Casualty Emotional Support Services (ACCESS - accesshelp.org) to ensure no one goes through the acute loneliness, isolation and grief that she had to experience after the unfortunate flight accident which took her fiance's life.
02:20 - Heidi is the CEO and founder of ACCESS which has been providing disaster bereavement support to those who have survived or lost loved ones in aviation tragedies. Tragically, Heidi, it started with a very personal experience for you.
13:20 -So the empathy, the experience of going through the same lot is an important factor for the volunteers you have for the organisation?
16:20 - What recommendation do you have for crisis responders to help them prepare better for bereaving individuals?
23:30 - What have you learnt personally from working in your role that you have adopted through the tragedy you have experienced?
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