Last month, I presented at a conference in Edmonton for victims of homicide and people working in the field of homicide. “Connected in Hope” was two days of witnessing and participating in the enduring power of grief and its odd sidekick, resilience. Despite working with traumatic loss for over a decade, the way grief and resilience can see-saw through a person’s day, from one moment to the next, still causes me to be impressed by what humans live with, and through.
The quiet, gritty, “get up and do life” resilience I am referring to isn’t pretty, or even necessarily pleasant. But it is powerful. Sometimes it looks like creating an entire conference, and sometimes it looks like choosing to get out of bed to let the dog out. For those two days, it looked like not doing it alone.
The men in this video were part of the team that made the conference possible. Here, they share insight into the male experience of traumatic and violent loss.
"Connected in Hope" was organized and run by the Victims of Homicide Support Society, an organization built by, and for, those impacted by homicide. Find out more about their unique peer-led support here. https://www.victimsofhomicide.org/
