HEBER The Association of Hospice & Allied Bereavement Groups in Ireland. (1993 – 2003)

HEBER The Association of Hospice & Allied Bereavement Groups in Ireland. (1993 – 2003)

Details of conferences , training and events organised by the HEBER consortium

: HEBER, the Association of Hospice & Allied Bereavement Groups in Ireland was initiated in the early 1990’s to bring together groups offering bereavement services and training. Led by Therese Brady, the aim was to provide specialist training, workshops and expert talks for people working in bereavement support and to work towards common standard in bereavement care provision. The group began offering training workshops and an annual conference was first held in 1993.
In 1994 they began training for people to working with bereaved children and adolescents, in 1999 this course would be taken over by the Irish Hospice Foundation and developed into the Professional Certificate of Children and Loss.
HEBER was taken over by Our Lady’s Hospice in 2003.
HEBER Conferences;
• 1993 1st HEBER Conference in association with IHF Guest Speaker Dr. Colin Murray Parkes
• 1994 2nd HEBER Conference in association with IHF
• 1995 3rd HEBER Conference in association with IHF - guest speaker Dr. Michael Kearney
• 1996 4th HEBER Conference in association with IHF guest speaker Julie Stokes
• 1997 5th HEBER Conference in assoication with IHF guest speaker Barbara Monroe
• 1998 6th HEBER Conference in association with IHF guest speaker Maurice Ward
• 1999 7th HEBER Conference in assoication with IHF renamed Therese Brady Memorial Lecture (Therese Brady died in January 1999)- guest speaker Christy Kenneally
• 2000 8th HEBER Conference in association with IHF Therese Brady Memorial Lecture - guest speaker Dr. Tony Bates
• 2001 9th HEBER Conference in association with IHF Therese Brady Memorial Lecture - guest speaker Dr. Phyllis Rolfe Silverman
• 2002 10th HEBER Conference in association with IHF Therese Brady Memorial Lecture - guest speaker Patrick Shannon