Exploring our understanding of compassionate
An introduction to The Compassionate Alliance
With Bianca Hurle, TCA project consultant
It’s likely that we all identify strongly as compassionate people and are involved as compassionate community members in various aspects of our working and personal lives. The word ‘compassionate’ is becoming increasingly used as a value in organisations. But what does that really mean?
The next LGPA discussion group will focus on this concept and look at a new collaborative project “THE COMPASSIONATE ALLIANCE” with project consultant Bianca Hurle. We will also have space for small group discussions (via break out rooms on zoom), exploring this project, and our own ideas of being compassionate, to consider if TCA fits with us as loss and grief practitioners in our varied settings.
TCA was launched in May 2026, and is led by a collaborative
group of organisations passionate about strengthening the ways that
organisations engage with the Compassionate Communities approach:
Palliative Care South Australia, Palliative Care Victoria, Carers SA,
Carers Victoria, and Flinders University. The project is funded by The
Wicking Trust, managed by Equity Trustees Limited.
TCA builds capacity for social inclusion and participation by supporting organisations to strengthen their demonstration of inclusive and compassionate practices supporting people in their last chapter of life, and those who care for them.
Bianca has lots of enthusiasm to introduce us to this project:
“I'd love to be able to share with your association The Compassionate Alliance—a statewide initiative that is helping organisations recognise and strengthen the compassionate work they're already doing, while providing a practical framework to build confidence, connection and support for people experiencing serious illness, caregiving, dying, death and grief.
The Compassionate Alliance isn't about creating more work—it's about recognising the compassion that already exists within organisations, strengthening it, and helping create communities where everybody has a role to play.”
About the presenter:
Bianca has spent more than 30 years working across the aged care and disability sectors, and throughout that time she has seen both the incredible compassion that exists within our communities and the gaps that can leave people feeling isolated during some of life's most difficult moments.
One of her proudest achievements has been pioneering Rosehaven Hospice in Mansfield, a non-clinical hospice that established Australia's first Voluntary Assisted Dying volunteer program. That experience reinforced her belief that compassionate communities are built not just by healthcare professionals, but by everyday people, organisations and communities working together. Her background is in nursing, She's an End-of-Life Doula by heart, and also trained in holistic mortuary care and funeral directing.
The Details
When: Tuesday 18 August 2026 7pm, finishing around 8.30pm
Where: Zoom - link will be sent on the day
2026-27 Members free - RSVP HERE
Non-Members $10 - BOOK HERE