This set of 48 cards carefully provides an introduction to the nature and experience of loss through bereavement. Blob cards are particularly designed to be used with children who may be confronted with bereavement for the first time and have no experience or knowledge of how to understand and cope with their loss and fears.

Blob images range from

• moment of being told of their death
• a variety of ways a person dies
• the feelings of loss and anger
• the funeral service and life following this event.

These cards can be used individually, or combined to create other situations and are ideal for use by bereavement counsellors.

There are 15 suggested ways to use the cards detailed in the accompanying booklet. The images have been produced in conjunction with Helen MacKinnon of ‘Seasaw’ Bereavement Group.

48 full-colour cards, 125 x 82mm plus instruction booklet, boxed.

Author Bio:

 Pip Wilson is the author of over fifty books and the famous ‘Blob Tree’ tools, which can open the hardest heart, and is able to open up meaningful communication in all cultures and contexts. His work has ranged from street gangs, Hells Angels, people with drug and alcohol issues, and charity housing projects. He currently works as a freelance people worker, conducting groupwork/ training/ facilitation in the corporate and voluntary sectors. Pip yearns for the uncomfortable, unease, dissatisfaction and daily refreshes the irritation. He believes that there is no such thing as a difficult person – only difficult behaviour.

 Ian Long is an illustrator who has worked with Pip all of his adult life, drawing, creating and visualizing ideas that they have imagined together since the early 1980s. He has been a youth and pastoral worker in Gloucestershire, a primary school teacher in West Sussex and Hampshire, a carer for his father who suffered with Alzheimer’s and is now working full time upon books.