Grief Counselling Case Study

Case Study: Background

ABC is a large multinational company in Gurgaon. They are a team of 150 people working on the same floor. Evidently, work colleagues become your second family because you spend 60% of your waking life with them.  Recently there was the death of a young colleague at ABC company. The loss came as a shock to every other member of the organization. Thus, the company’s Human Resource manager and CEO approached Mentriq to provide a Grief Counselling to their close-knit Second family.

Objective

When there is a sudden death in an organization, coworkers are shaken. They feel the loss of Meaning in their personal goals and question the organizational goals and likewise. There is an unexplainable sense of grief and despair among the survivors.

Offer Group and Individual therapy  to ABC Company’s employees and :

• Also, Be emotionally available for employees
• Therapy to Overcome the shock
• Accept the reality of Loss
• Navigate through their own feeling as well as that of their colleagues
• Give meaning to work again
• Get on with the normal pace of life

How were the objectives achieved?

• Counselors from Mentriq were made available for the employees.
•  The Painful incident that took place a day back was narrated to the Counsellors by the CEO and HR of ABC Company
• We gave a presentation on the nature of grief.
•  Conducted group therapy in phases for two over weeks.
• We used various Interactive tools and rituals to help employees ventilate and get on with their normal Lives.

Key Results

In this ever transitory world some kind of  Loss is inevitable and with all kinds of loss comes “Grief”!

It comes with a myriad of feelings including anger, frustration, guilt, regret, helplessness, lack of control over emotions, ambiguity, prolonged sadness or depression etc. Since the set of emotions, a person experience is dependent on the nature of the relationship with the object of loss. Hence, people generally bounce between different thoughts while trying to figure out a meaning of their loss.

• The employees felt empowered.
• We were able to re-establish the interaction between the organizational objectives vis a vis the employee’s personal objectives.
• We were able to bring in an increase in employee motivation and morale hence, reducing the stress, negativity and lack of communication.
• Likewise, the organization felt more confident in achieving yet another milestone on their path to employee satisfaction and building better values in their culture.

If you or anyone you know is suffering from grief, please have them meet with an experienced psychologist.