TEDxWarwick

Shelley shares a powerful message about the grieving processes of young people and adults, reframing thinking about the way we grieve and giving people permission to grieve in a much better way than undertaken in our society. Dame Shelley Gilbert MBE is the founder and CEO of Grief Encounter, one of the UK’s leading bereaved child charities. She set the charity up 10 years ago, following the public reaction to a book that she wrote called ‘Grief Encounter’. Her aim is to encourage children and adults to have conversations about death, having grown up in a conspiracy of silence herself when she was orphaned at 9 years old. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx