Australian Grief Tending Practitioners - Developmental, ABI & ID

This week on Regard I was in conversation with Marla Zapach which was such a heartening conversation. Marla is working with the cumulative and multilayers of grief within the intellectual and developmental disability community (Alberta). She has an extraordinary background and I particularly love the codesign nature of her work - REAL, authentic co design. I also am thrilled to learn how her community has really taken on her offerings and begun to advocate and ripple this grief tending work out further. I’d love to hear from you if you know where grief tending work might be happening here in Australia within the developmental, ABI and intellectual disability communities. Thanks Lesley Machon for connecting us. Also! It was my delight to squeeze in a chat with Jonathan de Jong, Director of Human Forever, the much anticipated film about dementia. Let me be clear, this is not a sad film about dementia - it’s an embrace of all the hopeful initiatives that are happening around the world. Quality of life means living in integrated ways not separated i.e. living only with people with dementia. If you've seen it already, drop me a line, I'd love to hear your thoughts!