28 & 29 March 2026

The RESEED Centre

30 King Edward Street

Penguin

Showing Up for Older Australians

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

What you will 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.

Places are limited for these workshops. If the number of registrations exceeds the available places, the remaining applicants will be placed on a waiting list. All applicants will be notified of the outcome.

This workshop facilitated by Australian Home Funeral Alliance, in conjunction with Social Health Australia and the Death Literacy Institute, is funded by the Wicking Trust as part of their Bringing Death Back into Life: Community-led Programs grants.

This program seeks to change that by building 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.

Places are limited to submit your Expression of Interest asap:

Expression of Interest