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GRIEF

INTRODUCTORY QUESTIONNAIRE

 PART 1: YOUR PERSONAL GRIEF

Try to think about yourself as a child.

1. Can you remember losing any belonging that were important to you?

2. Can you remember losing any friends? Name them

3. Did you lose a  relative? Who?

5. Can you remember losing a home? A place to be?

6. Can you remember how you dealt with those losses?

   (By yourself  or was there some adult presence with you?)

PART 2: CULTURAL GRIEF

  1. Is the Philippines( your country______) a grieving society?

  2. How do you identify the characteristics of grieving?

  3. Why does it grieve?

PART 3: THE GRIEF OF POVERTY AND OPPRESSION

Informally ask five people in your slum

  1. what losses and griefs they have experienced.
  2. What are the effects on their emotions?
  3. How have they dealt with these?

It may be with some, you can pray with them or bring the presence of God into their pain.