Split over two days, a month apart, session 1 is an education session which will cover, what is an ACD, what sort of things do you need to know, what things do you need to consider when creating one... and much more. You will leave session 1 with the paperwork, some fact sheets and lots to think about.

In session 2, you will come again with your paperwork. You may have already started filling it out! But if not, that's also ok. Session 2 is where you will put pen to paper, complete your ACD and have it witnessed and bundled up ready to send in for registration.

This will be the best use of a few hours on a Friday afternoon, and there may even be a cuppa on hand. Why not bring something to share for an afternoon tea as we go.

Details
SESSION 1 - FRIDAY 22ND MAY - 11AM - 2PM
SESSION 2 - FRIDAY 26TH JUNE - 11AM - 3PM

The venue will be Limina, 89 Weston Hill Rd, Sorell.

Event capacity will be 25, so register fast!

Date

Friday 22 May 2026 11:00 AM - Friday 26 June 2026 2:00 PM (UTC+10)

Location

Lumina
89 Weston Hill Rd, , Sorell Tas 7172

BOOK HERE

Compassionate care is more than a standard - it’s how we help people live well, right to the end 💙

Join us for a deep dive into Standard Four: Providing Care, featuring practical insights and real conversations on embedding quality palliative care into everyday practice.

🗓 Thu, 21 May
⏰ 12PM–1PM PST

🔗 https://events.humanitix.com/webinar-standard-four-providing-care

#PalliativeCare #EndOfLifeCare #Healthcare #AgedCare #HealthProfessionals #CompassionateCare #PalliativeCareAustralia 🌿

Curious about dementia, dying, and how we care for each other? 💛
Join us for a gentle, community-led screening and conversation this Palliative Care Week—because no one should navigate it alone.

🎟️ Save your spot: https://events.humanitix.com/pcw2026-moruya

#DementiaAwareness #PalliativeCare #EndOfLifeCare #CompassionateCommunities #CommunityCare #GriefSupport #Caregiving #MoruyaEvents

Curious about dementia, dying, and how we care for each other? 💛
Join us for a gentle, community-led screening and conversation this Palliative Care Week—because no one should navigate it alone.

🎟️ Save your spot: https://events.humanitix.com/pcw2026-narooma

#DementiaAwareness #PalliativeCare #EndOfLifeCare #CompassionateCommunities #CommunityCare #GriefSupport #Caregiving #MoruyaEvents

Cards. Laughs. Big conversations. 🃏💬
Carked It! is a cheeky Australian-made game that turns life & death into connection, humour, and surprising insight. Come solo or bring mates—everyone’s welcome. Snacks included. 🖤✨

🗓 Wed 13 May, 6–8pm GMT+10
📍 Darebin Intercultural Centre, Preston
🎟 Free (register via link below)

👉 REGISTER HERE

#CarkedIt #GameNight #CommunityEvents #TalkAboutDeath #LifeAndDeath #Darebin #FreeEvent 🎲🖤

About

NDAN is proud to present a panel discussion talking through the different offerings around restoration, conservation and natural burial. This is a rapidly growing space and increasingly more and more cemeteries are turning to natural and eco-friendly approaches to both lessen their footprint and meet the growing community demand to do things differently. Experts from around Australia will come together to talk about the differences in these approaches, what they are offering and why. Represented here is, Fiona from Walaawani Way (NSW), Heidi from Yacca Creek (SA), Joe (Founder of the Green Burial Council USA), and Frank from Geelong Cemetery Trust (VIC).

Date

Wednesday 29 April 2026 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (UTC+10)

Location

Online event access details will be provided by the event organiser

REGISTER HERE

Strengthen your clinical confidence at our in-person, grief-informed, immersive road trip workshops. In 2026, Grief Australia is on the road, around the nation, bringing the education to a location near you.

Check the upcoming Deepening Clinical Confidence Road Trip Workshops HERE.

Elevate your practice and strengthen your impact. Our workshops are tailored to empower professionals with specialised knowledge and skills to effectively support people through the complexities of grief.

Check the available workshops here: https://grief.org.au/ga/Professionals/Road_Trip_workshops.aspx

Creating Death Care Leaders builds death literacy in rural and regional communities, empowering people to navigate end-of-life conversations, home funerals, and death care with clarity and compassion.

📅 25–26 April 2026
⏰ Fri 9am–5pm | Sat 10am–4pm
📍 Walawaani Way, Bodalla NSW
🔗 Learn more / register: Contact fiona@walawaaniway.com

#DeathLiteracy #EndOfLifeCare #HomeFunerals #CommunityCare #DeathCareLeaders 🕊️

The Australian Home Funeral Alliance, in conjunction with Walawaani Way, and the Death Literacy Institute, this program seeks to build death literacy by engaging both rural and regional communities in education that improves people’s well-being and empowering people to confidently navigate the death system.

Contact Fiona for further information at fiona@walawaaniway.com

🌿 How can palliative care be more culturally responsive for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples?

Join this IPEPA workshop to explore culture, kinship, community strengths, and culturally safe communication in end-of-life care.

📅 22 April | 📍 Clare Holland House, ACT
🔗 REGISTER HERE

#PalliativeCare #CulturalSafety #AboriginalHealth #EndOfLifeCare #HealthWorkforce #PEPA 🌿

🧠💡 Keep your mind sharp, active, and energized!

Experience a fun and engaging Brain Aerobics Session by Fit Minds Australia—designed to boost memory, focus, and critical thinking in just one hour.

🗓 Tuesday, April 21, 2026
⏰ Sydney Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

✨ A perfect session for anyone looking to stay mentally active through interactive and stimulating exercises.

📍 Online via Zoom
✏️ Prepare paper and a pen for this hands-on experience!

🎟 Free event | Registration required
Don’t miss this chance to give your brain the workout it deserves!

REGISTER HERE

Supporting someone with a life-limiting illness is a big role 💙

You don’t have to figure it out alone. Join our free online CarerHelp session to get practical guidance, ask questions, and feel more prepared for the caring journey ahead.

🔗 Check the sessions here: https://www.carerhelp.com.au/News/Register-for-online-sessions

#CarerSupport #CarerHelp #PalliativeCare #Caregiving #SupportForCarers #HealthEducation #CommunityCare 🌿

This program builds on the Compassionate Communities model. By engaging rural and regional communities, we aim to provide education that empowers people to navigate the death system confidently and improve their well-being. The goal is to support older and vulnerable Australians, empowering communities and helping strengthen community-based solutions over clinical interventions, alleviate an overreliance upon commercial operators, so that people dealing with end-of-life issues might mediate meaning, find common humanity, and build resilience. It seeks to address funeral poverty and increase people's feelings of capacity and capability to show up for each other in end of life. By educating people on how communities can work together to support each other through illness and dying, we foster networks of care. In regional and remote communities this is essential for wellbeing and wellness. This workshop teaches people what is possible, how to talk about difficult things and the kinds of ways they can advocate for themselves and each other.

REGISTER HERE.

This program builds on the Compassionate Communities model. By engaging rural and regional communities, we aim to provide education that empowers people to navigate the death system confidently and improve their well-being. The goal is to support older and vulnerable Australians, empowering communities and helping strengthen community-based solutions over clinical interventions, alleviate an overreliance upon commercial operators, so that people dealing with end-of-life issues might mediate meaning, find common humanity, and build resilience. It seeks to address funeral poverty and increase people's feelings of capacity and capability to show up for each other in end of life. By educating people on how communities can work together to support each other through illness and dying, we foster networks of care. In regional and remote communities this is essential for wellbeing and wellness. This workshop teaches people what is possible, how to talk about difficult things and the kinds of ways they can advocate for themselves and each other.

REGISTER HERE.

Join on Wednesday 15 April 2026, for Palliative Care Queensland's education webinar titled "Caring Together: Why Language and Culture Matter in Paediatric Palliative Care".

📅 Wednesday 15 April 2026
⏰ 12:00–1:00 PM (AEST)

The webinar will feature guest speakers Yody Espitia Buritica, Clinical Nurse Consultant at Hummingbird House and Alessia Aielli, Project Officer at Palliative Care Australia who will share the importance of language and culture in Paediatric Palliative Care. They will discuss why it's important to be curious and open when engaging with different communities, and why it matters to work with and alongside families from non-English speaking backgrounds. They will also introduce the Caring Together booklet as evidence of what culturally responsive care can look like in practice.

FREE for PCQ members, PCQ Volunteers, QAS Paramedics
$10 General Admission
$8 Concession Card Holders

REGISTER HERE

The Australian Home Funeral Alliance, in conjunction with Social Health Australia and the Death Literacy Institute, are running a workshop called Showing Up for Older Australians: a community approach to building death literacy focusing on regional and Older Australians.

What You'll Learn:

• How to have conversations about end of life;

• What is a home funeral - why might we want one;

• Redefining home funeral - death in nursing homes and hospitals;

• Planning a funeral;

• Death care at home- what does it look like;

• Being a death care leader.

Event Details:

• 11 April 2026 9am - 5pm The Fellowship Room, Uniting Church, 8-12 Lyttleton Street, Castlemaine

• 12 April 2026 10am - 4pm The Fellowship Room, Uniting Church, 8-12 Lyttleton Street, Castlemaine

DETAILS HERE.

The Australian Home Funeral Alliance, in conjunction with Social Health Australia and the Death Literacy Institute, are running a workshop called Showing Up for Older Australians: a community approach to building death literacy focusing on regional and Older Australians.

What You'll Learn:

• How to have conversations about end of life;

• What is a home funeral - why might we want one;

• Redefining home funeral - death in nursing homes and hospitals;

• Planning a funeral;

• Death care at home- what does it look like;

• Being a death care leader.

Event Details:

• 11 April 2026 9am - 5pm The Fellowship Room, Uniting Church, 8-12 Lyttleton Street, Castlemaine

• 12 April 2026 10am - 4pm The Fellowship Room, Uniting Church, 8-12 Lyttleton Street, Castlemaine

DETAILS HERE.

This program builds on the Compassionate Communities model. By engaging rural and regional communities, we aim to provide education that empowers people to navigate the death system confidently and improve their well-being. The goal is to support older and vulnerable Australians, empowering communities and helping strengthen community-based solutions over clinical interventions, alleviate an overreliance upon commercial operators, so that people dealing with end-of-life issues might mediate meaning, find common humanity, and build resilience. It seeks to address funeral poverty and increase people's feelings of capacity and capability to show up for each other in end of life. By educating people on how communities can work together to support each other through illness and dying, we foster networks of care. In regional and remote communities this is essential for wellbeing and wellness. This workshop teaches people what is possible, how to talk about difficult things and the kinds of ways they can advocate for themselves and each other.

REGISTER HERE.

Livestream | When Age Is the Barrier: Younger Australians with a Terminal Illness Caught Between Systems 🎥⚖️

Join Palliative Care Australia** for a powerful discussion on the 5,000+ Australians under 65 each year who miss out on essential supports to stay safely at home.

Hear the human stories, unpack the policy gaps, and explore what must change.

🗓 Wed 1 April
⏰ 6:30–8:00 am PST
💻 Online (link provided on registration)

REGISTER HERE

#PalliativeCare #HealthEquity #EndOfLifeCare #DisabilitySupport #AgedCare #PolicyMatters

Join our free OPAN Webinar: Getting the Services You Need – Support at Home on Tuesday, 31 March 2026 (1–2 pm AEDT). Learn what to expect from aged care services, understand service agreements, fee waivers, financial hardship options, and the role of care management. Gain practical tips on what to do if your services aren’t meeting your needs.

Register now to secure your spot.

This program builds on the Compassionate Communities model. By engaging rural and regional communities, we aim to provide education that empowers people to navigate the death system confidently and improve their well-being. The goal is to support older and vulnerable Australians, empowering communities and helping strengthen community-based solutions over clinical interventions, alleviate an overreliance upon commercial operators, so that people dealing with end-of-life issues might mediate meaning, find common humanity, and build resilience. It seeks to address funeral poverty and increase people's feelings of capacity and capability to show up for each other in end of life. By educating people on how communities can work together to support each other through illness and dying, we foster networks of care. In regional and remote communities this is essential for wellbeing and wellness. This workshop teaches people what is possible, how to talk about difficult things and the kinds of ways they can advocate for themselves and each other.

REGISTER HERE.

This program builds on the Compassionate Communities model. By engaging rural and regional communities, we aim to provide education that empowers people to navigate the death system confidently and improve their well-being. The goal is to support older and vulnerable Australians, empowering communities and helping strengthen community-based solutions over clinical interventions, alleviate an overreliance upon commercial operators, so that people dealing with end-of-life issues might mediate meaning, find common humanity, and build resilience. It seeks to address funeral poverty and increase people's feelings of capacity and capability to show up for each other in end of life. By educating people on how communities can work together to support each other through illness and dying, we foster networks of care. In regional and remote communities this is essential for wellbeing and wellness. This workshop teaches people what is possible, how to talk about difficult things and the kinds of ways they can advocate for themselves and each other.

REGISTER HERE.

The Kingborough End of Life Expo is being planned for Wednesday 25 March 2026 from 10am - 2pm.

We would love for your organisation to participate. Please complete the survey below to let us know how you would like to be involved. Each stallholder will be provided with a 1.8 metre trestle table and chairs. You will need to provide your own table cloth. We will do our best to accommodate your needs but due to space limitations, we cannot guarantee that you will get the extra space you require.

Get your tickets HERE.