Harnessing the Power of Metaphors
in Group-Work with Bereaved Families
Eleanor Pardess, Clinical Psychologist
Presentation for 3rd Global Conference
Making Sense of: Dying & Death
Vienna, Austria -4 Dec 2004
There is hope for a tree
If it is cut down it will renew itself
Its shoots will not cease.
If its roots are old in the earth,
And its stump dies in the ground
At the scent of water it will bud.
And produce branches like sapling
JOB 14:7-9