The Experience of “from a Bereaved Woman to Another”: a Qualitative Study about Women, Occupation, Collective Loss and Holistic Support

The current study develops its force from practices of Palestinian women, occupation and loss project that aims at describing and understanding the role of holistic intervention based on the mutual support approach “from a bereaved woman to another”. The qualitative study has been utilized, with a view to reaching an integrated description, analysis and explanation of the experience that has been documented in details, through using special documentation forms. The results show that changes have taken place to bereaved women and supportive bereaved ones, as a result of participation in support and through training meetings. The study concludes that women have succeeded in expressing the memory and identity of loss and in being conscious of the Palestinian components. The experience of bereaved woman-to-bereaved woman has proved effective and promising as regards the alleviation of the intensity of the direct bereaved disorders, and a wide population, considered indirect victims.