Kindness Company - Social Change Collective
KINDNESS COMPANY WORKING WITH COMMUNITIES
Community is not a context for our work. It is the site of our work. We show up where people are,
build trust over time, and co-create with communities rather than for them.
End of life yarning circles
Structured, culturally grounded conversations about death, dying, and legacy, facilitated with community groups, families, and care recipients. These are not information sessions. They are carefully held spaces where story is the medicine.
Art-based healing and grief workshops: Healing the Heart
Co-led by Aunty Lyiata Ballangarry, Baaka Wimpatja Elder, River Keeper, and creator of the Healing the Heart model. These workshops bring together body mapping, visual arts, sound, somatic practice, and deep listening to support communities navigating grief and loss. Available on Country, in community centres, and in partner facilities.
We deliver shorter, tailored workshops for community organisations, senior services, and support centres across topics including mental health and wellbeing, resilience building, kindness and compassion, and loss and grief. Recent clients include Kalwun Senior Services, IWAA, and the Romero Centre. These workshops are accessible, culturally safe, and grounded in lived experience.
Workshops: mental health, resilience, kindness and compassion, loss and grief
Life story work
One-on-one and small group sessions supporting individuals, particularly First Nations Elders and Stolen Generations survivors, to capture and preserve their stories as a legacy for family and community. Stories can take the form of illustrated life story documents, audio recordings, or video.
Co-creation of resources in cultural way
We do not produce resources about communities. We produce them with communities. All co-design processes centre community knowledge holders as authors, with Elder-led review, iterative community testing, and formal acknowledgement of community authorship in all materials.
Conversations with Friends
In partnership with Dr Linda Kurti (Stillpoint Strategy), we facilitate informal dialogues about death and dying with groups of people who know each other, usually over a meal. This model has consistently demonstrated that when the conditions are right, people are hungry for these conversations. Many participants go on to complete advance care plans and have conversations with their families that they had been putting off for years.
Collective grieving
We co-create public and community arts spaces that normalise grief and acknowledge the collective losses so many communities carry but rarely name.
Eldership in our communities
We work with regional and peak bodies to acknowledge the wisdom and expertise of Elders, and to support them and their communities in their ageing and end of life journeys.
'A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions,
and the roots spring up and make new trees.
The greatest work that kindness does to others is that
it makes them kind themselves.'
- Frederick William Faber
READ OUR CLIENT TESTIMONIALS
'My brother died two months ago. The last time I saw Harp I felt deep sadness. She told me about the deep rest sessions she runs and I had one today. I have been feeling so much anger and that lifted; my body feels different, better. I haven't felt like this for months'
— DONNA
'Words can't describe the scaredness of today.... your playing was next level. It truly gave me the strength to be strong and take my mind off what was actually happening. In my 10 years of nursing it's the most precious experience I've ever had.'
— HOPEWELL HOSPICE
“Harp's compassionate and professional guidance has given me acceptance, knowledge and strength as I face one of the most difficult challenges
of my life.”
— JULIE
CONTACT US AT KINDNESS COMPANY
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