The GroundSwell Project 2020
We have a strategic plan and we’re really excited to share it with you. You can view it here. In February of this year, we developed an Impact Measurement Report with Social Outcomes on the issues that surround the dying process and in mid-August, the board and staff gathered to plan the way forward.
We thought you’d like a glimpse of what’s ahead!
The knowledge and learnings that have come from the 9 incredible communities who partnered with us over the past 2 years are being distilled into a community-led toolkit that will be available to all communities across Australia.
In 2020, we wonder what new ways people will come up with to come together, in caring and in grief. How will we strengthen our social ties, our partnerships with health and aged care?
How many D2KDay events will there be next year? What will you do and who will you share it with?
We recently looked over the feedback from our previous two Death Literacy conferences, and you have asked for more tools for working across communities, you noted the difficulty of 'change work' be it from within the health or aged care system or from the community, but you said you “wouldn't do anything else”... We want to hold another gathering next year but we’re not sure where or with whom we’ll partner with yet, watch this space (or get in touch)!
Our research partners at Western Sydney University will be publishing their findings on the National Compassionate Communities Forum and our 10K Aged Care project in April 2020 and we’ll be reviewing our practice in light of their final recommendations.
The Death Literacy Index is in final stages of validation and we’ll be sending out an update in the next week or so.
We will continue to engage with organisations who are ready to invest in their people to get better at grief at work through our Compassion@Work initiative. We recently held a webinar, reply to this email if you would like to see it!
All voices matter in community-led end of life social change and we want to pay deliberate attention to our responsibilities to reconciliation and truth-telling in Australia. The team will be embarking on a Reconciliation Action Plan (‘Reflect’ module) in December.
What are some ways you could embrace art practice in your change work?
From the simple inclusion of sensory elements to the capturing and sharing of stories, we have seen the powerful impact this can have. Our leading arts-health project Creative Legacy has been making a huge difference to the patients, staff and families on an acute palliative care ward and thanks to Dry July, we have just raised another years worth of funding to keep this important program going. We will be doing Dry July as a team in 2020 - will you join us?
The next two months are season-changing for our team. As the ripples of the Public Health Palliative Care 2019 conference settle - we’re taking some time to reconnect with each other and settling in our plans so we’re ready for another stellar year - a year of going wider and deeper in developing Compassionate Communities with you across Australia.
If you have any feedback on our plan, we’d love to hear from you, drop us an email or drop Tara a request to book in a phone chat with Jess.