# Event Details - **Event Name**: Community & Care | Death & Grief: Practical, artful ways to show up for the end of life - **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 02 Aug, 2026 at 08:00 am - **Event Description**: A learning partnership with the Death Literacy Institute. This 4-part series explores grief, loss, dying and care through lived experience, contemporary knowledge and practical wisdom. Rather than positioning death and grief as something to fear or to fix, this series approaches it as a deeply human, relational and social experience. We live in cultures that often avoid conversations and preparations for dying, grief and loss until crisis arrives. This series responds to the growing need for: grief literacy end-of-life awareness and readiness relational confidence compassionate communities reflective practice trauma-informed support meaningful conversations about mortality and care Presented in partnership with The Death Literacy Institute. The DLI works to create a world where death is part of life by building the knowledge, skills, experiences and actions that help individuals and communities respond to dying, caregiving, grief and loss. As a partner in this workshop series, the Institute contributes expertise in death and grief literacy, compassionate communities and community-based approaches to care, while sharing MIECAT's commitment to reflective practice, relational inquiry and meaning-making. Together, we create opportunities for participants to engage creatively and critically with experiences of loss, care and mortality, cultivating greater confidence, connection and capacity for living alongside life's endings and transitions. 4 x Sundays 6-8pm Session 1: 2nd August Session 2: 23rd August Session 3: 13 September Session 4: 4 October These online sessions will be recorded for those who have pre-registered and available for 4 weeks after each session. Participants will: Increase confidence and language around grief, loss, dying and care Develop reflective capacity when accompanying others through change, death, illness or bereavement Build practical end-of-life literacy and awareness of resources, frameworks, rituals and options Learn from lived experience, professional practice and contemporary conversations in the field Explore their own relationship to mortality and grief in a thoughtful and supported way Strengthen relational and trauma-informed skills relevant across many professions and everyday life Session 1: 2nd August 6-8pm End-of-Life Literacy & Practical Wisdom Presenter Danni Petkovic This workshop invites participants into a reflective and relational exploration of death, dying and grief as natural parts of living. Through shared inquiry, conversation and reflection, participants will deepen their awareness of existing knowledge, strengths and capacities around end-of-life and after-death experiences. Drawing on principles of death literacy and collective meaning-making, the workshop creates space to notice what matters, respond with greater intentionality, and explore how social, cultural and personal narratives shape our experiences of and readiness for care, loss and connection. Participants will engage in practices that support agency, reduce fear, and foster compassionate, community-oriented approaches to living, dying and grieving. Session 2: 23rd August 6-8pm Meeting Grief: Language, Literacy & Shared Humanity Presenter Holly Rankin-Smith A reflective workshop exploring grief as a deeply human, natural and social experience. Through collaborative inquiry, shared storytelling and knowledge models, participants will strengthen their capacity to accompany grief with greater confidence, presence and compassion. The workshop explores how self-reflection can shape our responses to loss, helping participants notice and work with their own thoughts, feelings and actions while remaining responsive to others. Together, we will examine the language, assumptions and social narratives surrounding grief, building practical and relational skills for “showing up” in ways that reduce isolation, foster connection, and support more grief-literate communities. Session 3: 13th September 6-8pm Ritual, Meaning & Creative Responses to Loss Presenter Danni Petkovic & Kim Karamanian A reflective and arts-based workshop exploring how ritual, creativity and storytelling can support experiences of grief, remembrance and continuing bonds. Through collaborative inquiry and creative practice, participants will consider how contemporary experiences of mourning are shaped by culture, community, identity and changing approaches to deathcare. Together, we will explore memorialisation, funeral alternatives, legacy, and the significance of objects, clothing and personal stories in carrying meaning across loss. Participants will engage in reflective and creative exercises including ritual design, memory-making, farewell writing and storytelling practices, creating space to honour grief, deepen connection, and cultivate meaningful, life-affirming responses to loss and remembrance. Session 4: 4th October 6-8pm Tending as an Aesthetics of Care Presenter Niki Read Tending as an Aesthetics of Care is a reflective, arts-based workshop exploring how attention, presence and accompaniment can deepen our capacity to live with and respond to loss, grief and change. Through gentle creative practice, ethical witnessing and shared inquiry, participants are invited to explore care not as fixing or problem-solving, but as a relational practice of staying present with what is fragile, painful or uncertain in a world of entangled griefs. Drawing on principles of death and grief literacies, aesthetics of care and collective meaning-making, the workshop uses observation, tending, visual reflection and dialogue to cultivate comfort with discomfort, strengthen capacities for accompaniment, and build shared language for care in everyday life. Participants will leave with practical, arts-based ways to engage loss, grief and vulnerability through attentiveness, compassion and relational responsibility. Please note that this whilst lived experience is very welcome this learning series is for personal interest and professional development, as opposed to therapeutic outcomes. It is expected participants can attend to their own needs in the space. Should you wish to attend a bereavement group therapy program, recommendations can be provided. Can't Attend Live? All sessions will be recorded and made available to registered participants for four weeks after each workshop. Recordings are provided exclusively to those who have pre-purchased a ticket. Please note that by registering for and attending this online course, participants consent to the sessions being recorded. Participants are welcome to keep their cameras off and use alternative forms of participation if preferred. As part of supporting the work of the DLI a pre and post event death literacy evaluation survey will be distrusted to support research and improve program development. This kind of research is significant for future funding for the important work of the DLI YOUR FACILITATORS Niki Read works where art, death, dying and grief, community and care meet. For more than 15 years she has contributed to the death literacy movement through research, arts and health, funeral and doula services, education and community development. A visual artist, writer and creative facilitator, Niki is interested in how people make meaning of life and death through stories, relationships, community and creative practice. A Senior Program Manager with both the Death Literacy Institute and the Public Health Palliative Care Unit at La Trobe uni, Niki holds a Visual Arts degree and is undertaking a Master of Therapeutic Arts Practice at MIECAT Institute, where she explores relational, arts-based inquiry. Her work returns again and again to death literacy, loss and grief, social justice, ecological concerns, and birds, always birds. Danni Petkovic is a Death Literacy Educator and Mortality Doula whose work is grounded in the belief that dying, grief and transition are profound human experiences deserving of care, presence and community. Through her practice, Liminal Being, Danni supports individuals and families navigating end-of-life, bereavement and major life transitions through advocacy, advance care planning, legacy work, ceremony and compassionate accompaniment. Danni is passionate about end of life education in all its forms and believes that creativity and storytelling are among the most powerful tools we have for bridging the gaps in our modern culture’s relationship with death and griefs. She creates spaces where participants are invited to sit with what is difficult, find language for what goes unspoken, and leave with a deeper sense of what it means to be present for themself and others at the edges of life. @liminalbeing__ Holly Rankin-Smith is a community development practitioner whose work focuses on building compassionate, connected communities around care, dying, grief and loss. With a background spanning the arts, social change and public health, Holly has contributed to national initiatives in death literacy, compassionate communities and end-of-life care through her work with La Trobe University, The GroundSwell Project and Big hART. Grounded in community development, Holly is passionate about strengthening community capacity and creating opportunities for people to engage more openly and confidently with ageing, caregiving, dying and grief. Her most recent project is the Eulogy Archive, a living collection of our letters to the dead @eulogy.archive Kim Karamanian is a Creative Arts Therapist, educator and founder of Creative Beings Art Therapy. Drawing on experience across healthcare, community, disability and palliative care settings, Kim supports individuals and groups to engage with creativity as a pathway to reflection, connection and meaning-making. Her work is informed by both professional practice and over three decades of lived experience navigating grief, loss and end-of-life care. She is currently completing a memoir reflecting on the loss of her mother and sister to Li-Fraumeni syndrome and the role of creativity in remembrance and meaning-making. @creativebeings.arttherapy - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/melbourne-victoria-australia/community-and-care-death-and-grief-practical-artful-ways-to-show-up-for-the-end-of-life/200030265400850 - **Event Categories**: workshops, art, health-wellness, fine-arts, storytelling, meetups, literary-art, virtual - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 119 ## Ticket Details ## Event venue details - **city**: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - **location**: Online event - **full address**: Online event, 372 George St, Fitzroy VIC 3065, Australia, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Community & Care | Death & Grief: Practical, artful ways to show up for the end of life - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/78bd344dfa45bce2914f93972941cfe095186d607066d4120a64ef2744fdaf85-rimg-w1080-h1350-dcd9d9d8-gmir?v=1785121872 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Community & Care | Death & Grief: Practical, artful ways to show up for the end of life being held? - **A:** Community & Care | Death & Grief: Practical, artful ways to show up for the end of life takes place on Sun, 02 Aug, 2026 at 08:00 am to Sun, 02 Aug, 2026 at 08:00 am at Online event, 372 George St, Fitzroy VIC 3065, Australia, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. - **Q**: Who is organizing Community & Care | Death & Grief: Practical, artful ways to show up for the end of life? - **A:** Community & Care | Death & Grief: Practical, artful ways to show up for the end of life is organized by MIECAT. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** Community & Care | Death & Grief: Practical, artful ways to show up for the end of life is ideal for curious learners, students, and skill-builders looking to gain hands-on knowledge and practical expertise in a focused, interactive setting. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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