Nowadays there are suitable travel offers for almost every target group - from beach holidays to adventure trips.
There are even vacations for grieving people.
How do you deal with grief after your partner dies?
For some, the answer can be: not to be alone in order to gain some distance - also spatially.
For such situations in life there are funeral journeys
.
One provider for this is Re-Bo-Reisen from Hamminkeln in North Rhine-Westphalia
.
Owner Claudia Heyne accompanies every group tour as a tour guide. She had to take a long break because of Corona, and things have only just started again.
A maximum of 20 participants are usually on the road with Heyne for a week - in Germany, Italy, Croatia or Greece *, sometimes even further away.
In an interview, Heyne explains what her travels are all about.
How exactly do you imagine a funeral journey?
Claudia Heyne:
For us, the focus is on going on vacation, not on coping with grief.
But we always have a trained grief counselor with us who is available 24 hours a day, every day of the week.
We only take mourners traveling alone and only offer single rooms
.
All participants have the same background and the same fate behind them.
You have the opportunity to talk to each other and exchange ideas on the trip.
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There is alternating a day of sightseeing and a day off.
On the days off we offer activities where you can talk to each other
.
On our last trip to Rügen, for example, we went on the treetop path.
What we don't offer are seminars on coping with grief.
For whom is a funeral journey even an option?
When are you ready for this kind of vacation?
Heyne
: Our participants are not freshly grieving people. They don't think about going on vacation.
Whoever comes to us stretches out their feelers again and wants to let the world come towards them
. Our motto is: from grief over a bridge into new life. We help you to dare to travel again. Our guests used to go on vacation with their partner, but that suddenly disappears.
There are also people
who lost their lives a
long time ago
, but who still mourn, seek conversations and want to meet new people.
We have a lot of repeaters, but also always new customers.
Recently there was also a woman who mourned because she was abandoned.
But this is more of an exception.
Another has been widowed for twelve years and has been with us ever since.
Such people can also help others with their experiences.
How would you describe the destination of such a trip?
Heyne
: The goal is to bring people with the same fate together.
That they find like-minded people.
Very
often friendships develop that last
after the trip *.
Nobody goes with you to find a new partner again.
But it has happened before.
After the last trip, a woman told me that she had regained confidence.
It's often about finding new motivation.
(dpa)
*
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