Events
Upcoming online and in-person events hosted, organised or supported by network members
AHFA Presents Dying (well) with dementia at home. One family’s personal story with Lisa Twigg
🏡 What does it mean to die well at home?
Join Lisa Twigg as she shares her family's deeply personal story of caring for her father with dementia at the end of his life—and the power of community, compassion, and connection. 💙
#DementiaCare #EndOfLifeCare #GriefSupport #CompassionateCommunities #Caregiving #AHFA #HomeDeath 🕊️
9th Public Health Palliative Care International Conference
📣 Planning ahead? Here’s one for your calendar.
Abstracts, workshops, and early bird rego dates are rolling in for the 9th Public Health Palliative Care International Conference — four days of global ideas, practice, and connection. 🌏💬
🔗 Event link: REGISTER HERE
#PHPC2026 #PalliativeCare #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth #ConferenceSeason ✈️📅
The Labor Out Conference: Where Healthcare meets Deathcare
Where compassion meets clinical care. 💛
The Labor Out: Where Healthcare Meets Deathcare at Cleveland State University brings healthcare pros, hospice workers, and death doulas together for real talk, real tools, and more human end-of-life care.
🗓 Oct 28 | 8:30AM–5PM
📍 Cleveland, OH
If you work near death, dying, or serious illness — this space was made for you.
🔗 Event link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-labor-out-conference-where-healthcare-meets-deathcare-tickets-1982391496330?aff=oddtdtcreator
#LaborOut #HealthcareMeetsDeathcare #EndOfLifeCare #HospiceCare #DeathDoulas #HealthcareLeadership #Nursing #WomenInHealthcare #NetworkingEvents
CfP: ‘Death Down Under: Toward an Australian Death Studies’
💀✨ Death Down Under: Toward an Australian Death Studies ✨💀
Join us for a dynamic, thought-provoking day at the University of Melbourne on 10 July 2026 as the Australian Death Studies Society brings together scholars and practitioners from across disciplines for an exciting interdisciplinary symposium!
Dive into conversations that challenge perspectives and reshape how we understand death, dying, and memorialisation in Australia—from cultural practices and policy to Indigenous experiences and emerging research approaches. Whether you’re an established academic or just starting out, this is your chance to contribute to building a uniquely Australian voice in death studies.
📢 Call for Papers now open! Submit your abstract by 10 May 2026 and be part of this growing field. Options for both in-person and online presentations are available.
Let’s connect, collaborate, and reimagine the future of death studies—Down Under. 🌏🖤
CONTACT US at info@deathstudies.org
#DeathStudies #Symposium2026 #CallForPapers #AcademicConference #AustraliaResearch #Thanatology #UniversityOfMelbourne #Interdisciplinary #ResearchCommunity #PhDLife #EarlyCareerResearchers #DeathDownUnder
AHFA presents Building Community Capacity with Jenny Briscoe-Hough
🌱 Strong communities don't just happen—they're built together.
Join Jenny Briscoe-Hough as she shares how community capacity, culture, and connection can transform the way we approach death, dying, and care. 💚
#CommunityCapacity #CompassionateCommunities #EndOfLifeCare #CommunityDevelopment #GriefSupport #PalliativeCare #AHFA 🤝
NAIDOC Week Webinar
🌿 Grief is experienced in many ways—and culture matters.
Join us this NAIDOC Week as we explore culturally responsive ways to support grief with humility, respect, and care. 🤝💙
#NAIDOCWeek #GriefFirstAid #CulturalSafety #AboriginalHealth #TorresStraitIslander #MentalHealth #CommunityCare #GriefSupport 🌏
Do Your Own Advance Care Directive (ACD)
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
Understanding Grief : Building Grief Readiness in Work and in Life
Grief is something we all experience, yet few of us feel prepared for. 💙
Join us for a conversation on building grief readiness in work and life—because support doesn’t require expertise, just awareness, empathy, and the courage to show up.
🔗 Event link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gDifQQtcThyNerKboYJOmA#/registration
#GriefFirstAid #GriefReadiness
Julian Kingma: The Power of Choice - Sydney exhibition
📸 JULIAN KINGMA: THE POWER OF CHOICE
Step into a powerful and deeply human photographic exhibition by Julian Kingma, documenting the stories of Australians who chose voluntary assisted dying (VAD), alongside the families and health professionals who supported them on their final journey.
Over 18 months travelling across Australia, Julian captured intimate portraits and photo essays exploring hope, courage, struggle, and acceptance — revealing the human face behind Australia’s compassionate VAD laws.
🗓 2 – 25 June 2026
📍 The Fountain Court, NSW Parliament House
6 Macquarie St, Sydney NSW 2000
🕘 Open weekdays, 9am – 5pm
🎟 Free entry
➡ Access via the security gatehouse to the left of the building
Don’t miss this thought-provoking exhibition that invites us to reflect!
Do Your Own Advance Care Directive (ACD)
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
Webinar: Standard Four - Providing Care
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 🌿
Understanding Dementia and End‑of‑Life Care - Moruya
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
Understanding Dementia and End‑of‑Life Care - Narooma
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
Carked It! Game Night
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)
#CarkedIt #GameNight #CommunityEvents #TalkAboutDeath #LifeAndDeath #Darebin #FreeEvent 🎲🖤
National Palliative Care Week 2026
In 2026, with the support of the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care, National Palliative Care Week (NPCW) will run from Sunday, 10 May until Saturday, 16 May.
DETAILS HERE: https://palliativecarensw.org.au/national-palliative-care-week-2026/
JOY 3: Evaluating Intergenerational Programs
This course is a stand-alone course from JOY 1 and JOY 2 and is designed for intergenerational professionals who are ready to deepen their understanding of program evaluation; what it is, why it matters, and how to do it well.
This course unpacks the tools, theories, and practices of evaluation through an intergenerational lens. With real-world examples, downloadable templates, and reflective activities, participants will gain practical skills to measure impact, demonstrate value, and confidently report outcomes.
JOY 3 will equip you to assess program effectiveness, advocate for sustainability, and contribute to a growing evidence base for intergenerational practice.
NDAN: Conservation & natural burial, various approaches
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
Deepening Clinical Confidence Road Trip Workshops
For three decades, Grief Australia has shaped grief-informed practice across Australia.
The in-person Deepening Clinical Confidence workshops series brings this national expertise directly to clinicians in their own state, offering three full-day workshops that stand alone or form a structured professional development pathway.
This series is designed to deepen assessment capability, refine intervention strategies and elevate the quality of bereavement care.
Deepening Clinical Confidence
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.
Road Trip Workshops
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
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 🕊️
Creating Death Care Leaders
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
IPEPA workshop- Culturally responsive palliative care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
🌿 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 🌿
Online Brain Aerobics Experience Session
🧠💡 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!
CarerHelp Online Information Sessions
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 🌿
Showing Up for Older Australians
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.
Showing Up for Older Australians
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.
Education Webinar | Caring Together: Why Language and Culture Matter in Paediatric Palliative Care
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
Showing Up for Each Other
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.
Showing Up for Each Other
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.
International Conference on Assisted Dying and Other End of Life Care (ICEL5)
ICEL5: Assisted Dying & End-of-Life Care 🌿⚖️🩺
Four days of bold, interdisciplinary conversations on assisted dying—bringing together ethics, law, medicine, and lived experience. Thoughtful, challenging, and essential for shaping end-of-life care futures.
📍 QUT Gardens Point, Brisbane
🗓️ 8–11 April 2026
📝 Registration now open
🔗 Details & registration: https://consol.eventsair.com/icel5/
#ICEL5 #AssistedDying #EndOfLifeCare #HealthLaw #Bioethics #MedicalEthics #InterdisciplinaryResearch ✨
International Conference on Assisted Dying and Other End of Life Care (ICEL5)
International Conference on Assisted Dying & End of Life Care (ICEL5) ⚖️🩺
Join the Australian Centre for Health Law Research at Queensland University of Technology for four days of bold, interdisciplinary conversations on assisted dying — spanning legal, ethical, clinical and policy perspectives.
🗓 8–11 April 2026
📍 Gardens Point Campus, Brisbane
🎟 Registration now open
#ICEL5 #AssistedDying #EndOfLifeCare #HealthLaw #QUT #ResearchConference
Showing Up for Older Australians
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.