Donate
Students Talk About Loss are groups specifically for students meeting regularly within university campuses. University can be such a challenging place when you are grieving, you might be living away from home or family and not able to visit important places. We hope our Students Talk About Loss meet ups can be places of support, community and finding joy among the grief.
Our first ever Students Talk About Loss meet up group has been running since 2021 at the London School of Economics.
The group is facilitated by Maz and Carlotta, and it’s a safe space to talk about loss, how you are finding grief at university and support each other.
Location: Hall-Carpenter Room (SAW)
To contact the LSE group, please email lse@letstalkaboutloss.org.
Hello hello! I’m Maz, a fourth year LSE student who has attended meet ups for the last three years. I lost my Mum and big brother a few years ago now and have found myself looking for a place at uni in which I could talk about them to people that would just get it.
I completely understand that unfortunately talking about grief oftentimes comes with a great deal of taboo attached, and so having this group at uni for the past three years has been a much-needed respite for me and others. I am honoured to be able to take over from my amazing friends who used to host and hope to keep to their non-judgmental and thoughtful spirits when hosting myself this year.
Please do feel free to come along and share as little or as much as you like, you’ll be welcomed with open arms regardless 🙂
Hello everybody! I’m Carli, a third year LSE student and I have been attending these meet ups for a little over a year. I lost my Mom and soon after my Grandfather just before the start of the past academic year, so Let’s Talk About Loss has been quite the lifeline.
The meet ups have been a really vital part of my grieving (and even healing) process: I cannot stress enough how comforting it feels to share a space, feeling and thoughts with people who are or have been in a similar position (no matter the more trivial distinctions of who or when or how). There truly are somethings that you can only ‘get’ after you’ve been through them. I have learnt that it can be difficult and draining to discuss your loss out of the blue or with people who are trying to understand this, but ultimately cannot.
This group provides us with the option to share more openly, or even to just listen to others share common experiences (which is quite therapeutic in its own right). Maz and I will do everything we can to make sure this is a space for you to find some peace, in an empathic and safe environment.
I hope we will see you around, because we are here for you.
If you would like to start a Students Talk About Loss group at your university, we’d love to hear from you. Email hello@letstalkaboutloss.org and we can chat.
