About Mindset Vitality

Bereavement Support

We are a UK registered charity set up in 2022 to offer people in South Wales timely support when they are grieving. Wherever you live, we hope that you will find that the information and tips on this website will assist you on your journey through grief.

Our Bereavement Friendship Groups offer safe spaces to share experiences, ask questions and chat with people who get you.

Everyone's journey is unique because each relationship with our loved ones is unique. There's a saying that 'Grief is love with nowhere to go'. That is true and additional pain can come from the less-than-happy memories (or imaginings) of a loved one's final moments or months of physical or emotional suffering, or things said or left unsaid.

There are so many factors that can complicate our grief and make the journey more challenging.

Grief can’t be fixed, but there are ways to ease the pain and loneliness:

Attending a community face-to-face group near you and chatting with others who are grieving via our Bereavement Friendship groups.
Completing a personal self-assessment and receiving an individual response.
Completing an online group support programme.

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Board of Trustees

Our trustees play a vital role in making sure that Mindset Vitality achieves its core purpose. They also ensure that our charity has a clear strategy and that our work and goals are in line with our vision. Just as importantly, they support and challenge the executive team to enable us and our services for bereaved people to grow and thrive.

We are currently in need of additional trustees, including a treasurer.

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Chair of Trustees

Fiona MacLeod

Fiona has worked with children and families for four decades as a social work practitioner, trainer and manager in London and South Wales. She has worked for the last 3 years developing a parent-peer advocacy network to empower parents and their families affected by the child protection system. Bereavement is something Fiona is intimately familiar with. She understands the power of supportive and non-judgemental conversations between people with similar experiences in the healing journey.

Trustee

Siân Jackson

Siân has spent the last decade working on exciting projects in the third sector, setting up her own business as a celebrant and taking on a variety of voluntary roles.

Siân is most proud of her work as a Humanist Celebrant writing and performing bespoke, non-religious weddings and funerals, helping people mark milestones in meaningful ways. For the last three years Siân has been a coordinator for all the celebrants in Wales who are affiliated with Humanists UK.

Alongside this Siân is working in an innovative project helping people with multiple unmet needs to make positive changes in their lives, find housing and sustain tenancies.

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We are looking to diversify and expand our trustee board. We need people willing to bring energy, enthusiasm and commitment to the role, and who will broaden the diversity of thinking on our board.

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Our Goal

Our goal is to support those who are struggling and feel isolated in their grief.

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Our Mission

We aim to provide bereavement support for people living in South Wales.

Gaynor Rosier - CEO

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Gaynor is a Clinical Hypnotherapist, a teacher, and a retired social worker. She has been using a trauma-informed approach for the past 30 years to help people who are struggling with grief and trauma.

Gaynor spent six years as a volunteer with Cruse, a national bereavement charity carrying out one-to-one bereavement support sessions with clients who experienced traumatic grief, speaking with people who rang the national helpline, hosting an online support group, and supervising other volunteers.

Gaynor believes that continual suffering is unnecessary when there is a way to gently release and transmute the pain of grief and trauma. She supports people to practice self-soothing skills in order to gradually release and learn to manage their emotions.

Gaynor founded Mindset Vitality to help people living in South Wales who are grieving to access different levels of support without having to join a long waiting list.

For people who are experiencing complicated grief, Gaynor provides therapeutic help by bringing together trauma-informed therapy, neuroscience, and mindful awareness to empower members of our online six-week group support programme.

(Complete the self-assessment so that Gaynor can offer you the right level of support for your current needs.)

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