Grief Australia webinar | Placing our Footsteps Beside and Together

The presentation will be delivered as a Storytelling as Healing and as Education, I am hoping this approach invites practitioners into an experience that data and theory cannot convey.

• Storytelling plays a dual role in palliative care, trauma and grief as both healer and educator.
• It helps bereaved people make sense of loss by giving shape to overwhelming emotions, reducing isolation through shared connection, and supporting an ongoing bond with the deceased through memory, meaning, and place.
• At the same time, grief stories teach others what mourning really looks like, often nonlinear and culturally shaped, making hidden or disenfranchised grief more visible, improving “grief literacy,” and modelling how to listen with empathy rather than trying to fix or rush the palliative care and bereaved person’s experience.