Mortality, death and trauma are all part of life. When a close individual dies or goes through a serious trauma adults are often helpless to make children and young people understand what is already beyond their own comprehension.
Many of them lack the right words or the right ways of dealing with this usually taboo subject. The understanding of death changes with the gain of knowledge and experience in the course of one’s life – and that is why grief “develops” with it from year to year, especially in adolescents. Sometimes you don’t even see that they are primarily sad, because their grief expresses itself differently than in adults.
Gaia Protection supports the initiative ZwischenGeZeiten that helps guide children, teenagers, adolescents, young adults and their families through all conceivable circumstances of loss and at different points in the individual grieving process.