Annual Event 2009
Intimacy and Connection at End of Life
What is important at the end of life?
togetherness, love, sorrow, connection, legacy
family , community, support, touch, children, ritual
cellebration, home, pets, holding hands, intimacy, being together
Each year HOME Hospice hosts an annual event that is open to everyone. The theme this year, 'Intimacy and Connection' provides an opportunity to explore issues of connectedness at end of life. The topics are diverse ranging from sexuality to the rituals that bring us together.
This year we are proud to have a number of well-known and international speakers including Palliative Care Specialist and Documentary maker Dr. Sinead Donnelly and Sydney Palliative Care Physican, Lawyer and Writer Dr. Frank Brennan.
Download registration form HERE
The Venue:
Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, Level 1, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney
The Program:
Friday 27th November, 2009
8.00 Registration
8.55 Welcome to Country
9.10 Offical Opening
Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce AC
Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia
Patron of HOME Hospice
9.20 Welcome
Nick Toonen OAM
Chief Executive Officer, HOME Hospice
9.30 The Ways of Water: Bruce Dawe and the Nature of Palliative Care
Dr Frank Brennan
Palliative Care Consultant
Calvery Hospital
10.30 Morning tea
11.00 Sexuality and Dying: taboo topics
Dr. Kendra Sundquist
Manager Supportive Care Development
Cancer Council NSW
12.00 The Intimacy of Death and Dying
Zenith Virago
Professional Death Consultant
Natural Death Centre
1.00 Lunch
2.00 Living Life with the Realities - working with Families who have been Affected by a Terminal Illness
Annie Laurie RSJ
Community Outreach Worker
Make Today Count
3.00 Living, Caring, Mentoring
Kate Maquire and others
National Mentor Development and Support
HOME Hospice
4.00 Afternoon Refreshments and fre time
Dr Sinead Donnelly
Palliative Care Specialist
Wellington Hospital, New Zealand
Saturday 28 November 2009
9.00 Registration
9.30 and 11.30 Workshops
Saturday provides an opportunity to reflect upon the Intimacy and Connection at End of Life though creative processes. Two workshops will be offerred concurrently before and after morning tea.
Workshop 1
'Intimacy with a Larger Sense of Self', Steve Armstong, Therapist.
Workshop 2
"Creative Reflections for Change' Debbie Horsfall, University of Western Sydney
1.00 Celebration Lunch and Networking
