Hayley West
Hayley West's socially engaged art practice relates to a lived awareness of death and memorial, working with sculpture, video, performance, and installation. Her practice spans over 20 years of research, exhibitions, and residencies internationally and nationally. Her current project DEAD AIR is a weekly, live radio show on community radio station 94.9MAINfm in Castlemaine, Central Victoria. DEAD AIR has been nominated twice as a finalist in the CBAA (Community Broadcasting Association of Australia) Awards: Best New Show 2022 & Excellence in Innovative Programming and Content 2023.
Public speaking, interviews and publications include: Lifting the Lid Festival, Goldfields Gothic Festival of Dark Ideas, Redesigning Deathcare Conference, Dying to Know Day, Goldfields Libraries, Castlemaine State Festival, La Trobe Art Institute, CARE Symposium, Melbourne Festival of Death and Dying, Emerging Writer’s Festival, Pecha Kucha; ABC Central Victoria, Life Matters Radio National, 3RRR, MAINfm, The Guardian, SMH, The Age; Peppermint magazine, Bendigo magazine.
Hayley has been a member of the Natural Death Advocacy Network since 2018, co-hosted Death Cafés (2014-22), a contributor to the Victorian arm of the Australian Home Funeral Alliance, and was previously a General Member of the Historical Castlemaine Cemetery Trust (2018-22). She has also just accepted the role of a General Member on the NDAN Committee, and as Vice President on the MAINfm Committee. She is a single mother to a teenager and staffy, currently works at La Trobe University Library and is embracing the newly discovered label of 'multipotentialite'.
phone: 0400287553
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website: thedeparture.com.au
Fiona McCuaig
Fiona has volunteered and worked for a number of marine conservation and environmental organisations throughout her property career. Fiona was a full-time volunteer for Sea Shepherd for nearly three years - she went on four dangerous campaigns including three anti-whaling campaigns in Antarctica and the Faroe Islands and was media promoter for the discovery channel show called Whale Wars.
Fiona's life project now is establishing the first conservation burial ground in Australia which will have 100% natural burials. The Bodalla Conservation Burial will create 20ha of protected forest ecosystem. She strives to make conservation natural burials the number one choice for all Australians due to it being the most beneficial end-of-life choice for the planet and wildlife.
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Phone: 0402892759
Rose Sexton
With over 40 years of nursing experience and post-graduate qualifications in palliative care, I have a great passion for supporting those at the end of life and have long nurtured a deep desire to open up discussions around death, dying, and end-of-life issues, believing that this contains enormous possibilities for living more fully and richly. I work now in the field of Palliative Care in North East Victoria.
The past few years have provided several personal experiences for end of life support, culminating in the death of my husband in June 2019. This deeply personal exploration of the mystery of dying, death and grief have given me great insight into the challenges, nuances, and opportunities in this space.
Along with my colleague Nicole Stephens at End Stage Matters, we offer End of Life Doula services, Advance Care Planning workshops, and other events such as Death Cafes, podcasts and a theatre piece about ACP.
NDAN provides me with an opportunity for me to have a positive influence and contribute to our cultural reclamation of natural dying and natural death.
Phone : 0422318149
Website : endstagematters.com
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Heidi Grieg
Heidi has worn many hats in her working life: nurse, Auslan interpreter, teacher, and counsellor for rural youth. The 2019/2020 bushfires on Kangaroo Island flicked a switch as Heidi witnessed the raw strength and capacity of community. Tired of the endless treadmill of outsourcing services to the mainland, Heidi saw a deep need to bring death care back into the community’s embrace – and founded KI Doula Services in response to the existential crisis that was all around her.
After further study with Griffith University, and intensive training as an end-of-doula and funeral guide, Heidi now partners with Kath Bald, who established Island Holistic Funerals, the only local funeral provider on the island. Both businesses work closely with Kangaroo Island Health Services to deliver the full range of end-of-life guidance, education and support on KI.
Heidi is a strong advocate and facilitator for home-based death care, and family lead burials on private rural holdings. Buoyed by the community, she is quietly working to establish a conservation burial ground on the remote western end of Kangaroo Island and is thrilled to be involved in NDAN, an organisation she sees are clearly leading the change in Australia.
Email: www.kidoulaservices.com.au
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