Parinama

28/05/2026

We are so excited for our next event, featuring Dr. Christian Ntizimira, is about Integrating Palliative Care into Oncology: The Safari Concept, Ubuntu, and the Meaning of Suffering.

BOOK YOUR SPOT NOW!

This session will explore innovative approaches to integrating palliative care into oncology, grounded in sociocultural perspectives and the African philosophy of Ubuntu, "I am because we are.” Drawing on the safari concept, an African framework for end-of-life care, the session will examine how suffering is understood, expressed, and alleviated within different cultural contexts.

Participants will gain practical insights into how early palliative care integration can improve patient outcomes, reduce treatment burden, and enhance quality of life while remaining responsive to patients’ social realities, values, and beliefs. The discussion will highlight the importance of relational care, dignity, and community in addressing serious illness.
Attendees will leave with actionable strategies to strengthen palliative care delivery within their own systems and a deeper appreciation of how culturally grounded approaches, including Ubuntu, can transform the experience of care and suffering for patients and families.

Dr. Christian Ntizimira is a physician, author, and global advocate for palliative care integration in oncology. He is the founder and executive director of ACREOL and the author of "The Safari Concept: An African Framework on End-of-Life Care." His work focuses on improving access to compassionate, holistic care in low-resource settings and advancing culturally grounded models of care that address suffering in all its dimensions.

Register now for this online information session via https://shorturl.at/7kY7v

29/11/2025

29/11/2025

🩵 Bereaved Parents Together
📅 Monday 1 December • 6 PM - 7.30PM
📍 Hastings Community Hub

The lead-up to Christmas can be a painfully triggering and tender time for bereaved parents. If you’re feeling it, please know you don’t have to go through it alone.

Join us for our monthly Bereaved Parents Together gathering - a warm, supportive space to simply be with others who understand.

Next week we'll be joined by .winslade - intuitive healer, clinical hypnotherapist, and teacher of yoga + meditation. Jan will guide us through gentle breathwork, meditation, and tapping to help ease stress and support emotional calm.

Come to share, connect, or just take a quiet moment for yourself.
You’re welcome to bring a friend or support person.

🩵 You’re not alone.

25/11/2025

For anyone who wants to do multicultural death work? Or maybe bring the AHFA grassroots death care leadership workshop to your community?

Round two of the Multicultural Grassroots Initiative (MGI) grant opportunity is now open.

The grant program funds grassroots organisations that celebrate our multicultural diversity and bring people together through local events, programs and community initiatives.

Applicants can apply for between $10,000 and $20,000 (GST exclusive) for an event, or between $10,000 and $80,000 (GST exclusive) for a program that promotes intercultural understanding, community participation and a sense of belonging.

Multiple applications across different locations are allowed, and proposals that build cross-cultural links, understanding and social cohesion are encouraged.

Applications close on 5 December 2025. For more information and to apply, visit:
https://www.grants.gov.au/Fo/Show?FoUuid=ef6452a7-ae8b-4f29-81fa-3555dc2e23e4

24/11/2025

This is Nicole, please welcome her to our AHFA Committee and the role of Treasurer.

"As a devoted mother of three residing in the picturesque Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, I have dedicated the past thirty years to empowering individuals and families by guiding them through informed choices and support systems, especially within the disability sector. My passion for living life to the fullest at every stage is the cornerstone of my work as a Mindfulness Coach. I am committed to personal growth and sharing practical mindfulness tools to empower others.

​Having navigated my own journey through grief and loss, I intimately understand the feelings of isolation within systems often considered taboo. This experience fuels my dedication to advocacy and knowledge-sharing, enabling informed decision-making throughout life's journey, including its final stages. I have furthered my commitment by completing Funeral Celebrancy Training with Sally Cant and End of Life Doula Training with Preparing the Way."

We are so pleased to have Nicole step up and be part of shaping AHFA for the future. Head to our website (www.ahfa.org.au) to learn more about our Committee and the work we do at AHFA.

19/11/2025

It all begins with intention

08/11/2025

What if the quietest chat you avoid is actually the most important one?

What if the quietest chat you avoid… is actually the most important one?

This thought-provoking piece (thank you Robyn & Steven) The Sydney Morning Herald dives into why talking about death; with parents (and also partners, children, siblings, friends or anyone who matters), might be the most life-affirming thing you do.

Sometimes the hardest conversations aren’t the ones we think. https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/the-conversation-no-one-wants-to-have-with-their-parents-and-it-s-not-about-sex-20251104-p5n7oi.html