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 offer a caring space for changemakers to re-energise, find support and challenge to make their ideas better, with flexible ways to participate that nurture wellbeing.

  • To connect, think and work differently and take actions to influence systems. 

  • To normalise conversations about death and dying.

  • To spread what we know works.

Our principles

  • Cultivate trust

  • Self-organising

  • Retreat and reflect

  • Practise new ways of ‘doing’

  • Work together for systems impact

Our current focus

At this time, the network is focussed on education and opportunities to increase death literacy across Australia.

Practically speaking we are helping each other see the system, naming shared challenges and the conditions (policies, practices, resourcing, relationships, power dynamics and mental models) that perpetuate them. 

Our active hubs

  • Carked It! Marketing: supporting marketing for the game we helped co-create, Carked It! game to spread.

  • Grief Literacy Hub: bringing together education and best practice on grief literacy.

  • Good Death Impact Network Website: creating a website for our network.

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

  • Pure Land Home Hospice Pilot (Adelaide): provide holistic integrated home-based generalist palliative care using a nurse-led community model.

  • 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.

  • Mapping end of life: working out how we visualise the end of life system to create a better view of what's available.

  • Transition: designing our network’s new backbone to be implemented over two years.

Questions we’re seeking to answer

How might we extend existing and create new opportunities for end of life education that builds capability and happens across people’s lives (i.e. doesn’t wait for people to be faced with life-limiting illness)?

How might we use a public health approach to catalyse an integrated education effort?

Sound interesting?

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