Compassionate Communities: a Panel Discussion led by Harpreet Kalsi
Bringing local residents, schools, businesses, groups and healthcare services together, Compassionate Communities is a network to promote and support kindness, friendship and a collaborative approach to caring for one another at times of health crisis and personal loss.
Join facilitator Harp Kalsi-Smith, Board Director of Compassionate Communities Australia, for an interactive workshop on exploring compassion and building compassionate communities. Together with a panel of inspiring leaders driving compassionate communities work, this session will open space for reflection and dialogue on what it means to practice compassion—beginning with ourselves, extending to our inner circles, and reaching out to the wider community. We will explore how compassion can be lived and practiced during all facets of life, better preparing us to mobilise in our daily lives and communities to support one another through serious illness, death, and bereavement. Participants will be invited into conversation and collective practice, creating momentum for a movement that nurtures care, connection, and compassion at every level of community life.
We will consider:
What's going well and what needs to be changed?
What are compassionate communities doing? What more can be done?
What are the intersects between compassionate communities and the health system
How can home based palliative care be accessed?