Our work

Our background

We’re a group of changemakers working together to create good death outcomes.

As we are working from a systems perspective, we know that bringing people together from different parts of a system is a powerful way to create social change.

We've been collectively mapping the end of life system to find our key leverage point for change, which we have pinpointed as education.

Our purpose

  • To provide a space for changemakers to re-energise, connect with peers who ‘get it’, learn, nurture their wellbeing, strengthen ideas and find support, and

  • To support a movement of people and organisations that think and act collaboratively and systemically,

  • In order for more people to have “good death”, dying, and grief experiences.

Our principles

  • Cultivate trust

  • Self-organising

  • Retreat, reflect, emerge

  • Practise new ways of ‘doing’

  • Work together for systems impact

  • Intentional, inclusive, diverse

Our systemic focus

Since 2018, the Good Death Impact Network have been building relationships nationally between people doing things differently in the death, dying and grief sector. During this time diverse members have spent considerable time ‘seeing the system’ from their many unique perspectives. When those perspectives were woven together some common patterns could be seen. Together the network discussed each pattern, its meaning, how it came to be and what could activate change. The systems levers we focus on are:

  • Fund for outcomes

  • Shift death denial

  • Information & communication

  • Quality evaluation

  • Death outside institutions

  • Address ageism

Read more and download GDIN’s systems playbook here.

Our projects

  • Carked it! A card game co-designed with network members and community to educate about death and dying through humour.

  • Showing Up For Grief: education and learning workshop for community members, encouraging a compassionate response to loss based on the best evidence.

  • Pure Land Home Hospice Pilot: testing an approach to provide holistic integrated home-based generalist palliative care using a nurse-led community model.

  • Adelaide Death Festival 2024: a one-day public event with the objective of celebrating life while improving community understanding and attitudes towards death, dying and bereavement.

  • Bereavement Companioning (Melbourne): provide additional support to families arranging funerals through Bereavement Assistance by assigning to them a bereavement companion - someone they can turn to for any reason during the first six months of the grieving process.

  • Creating Death Care Leaders: Deliver two free two-day death literacy workshops in Hobart and Melbourne.

  • GDIN Transition hub: Staff a small hub of members (2-4) to facilitate the network's transition by defining its future direction

  • Spiritual Care With the Dying Retreat Bursary: Bursaries to participants of a Buddhist 5-day retreat for  a deeper understanding and acceptance or death & dying.

  • Pure Land Home Hospice Home Toolkit: Develop a Hospice Toolkit, containing essential resources for patients, families, and carers of Buddha House.

  • The Last Ecstatic Days film screening: good.film invite’s GDIN to be one of the leading screening partners for The Last Ecstatic Days Australia release.

Sound interesting?

Maybe you’d like to consider becoming a member and contribute to the work we’re doing?