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I recently sat down with Helen Callanan for The Listening Project Podcast to discuss a role many people have never heard of — yet once understood, feels instinctively familiar. Helen is an end of life doula trainer. Not medical. Not clinical. Not there to replace doctors, nurses or palliative care teams. An end of life doula sits alongside that care. Someone who accompanies people and families through one of the most profound transitions in life. Someone who understands what

I have known Dr Kerrie Noonan for many years and was pleased she was able to make time to speak with the podcast, The Listening Project for our upcoming series on grief and loss. Kerrie has spent more than three decades working across palliative care, bereavement, research and community life. We spoke at length about what would change if we were better equipped to face death — not as a medical event, but as part of being human? Modern life has become strangely uncomfortable w

We recently interviewed Matthew Horder for our upcoming podcast - The LIstening Project. It was a beautiful discussion, honouring the memory of his parents and sharing how he has tried to find hope admidst the unimaginable tragedy that struck his family. In July 2014 when Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board — including Matthew’s parents, Matthew and his family's lives were changed forever. We spoke with Matthew n

Photo Credit: Vivid Chloé Zhao coming to Australia as part of Vivid Sydney 2026 feels bigger than a film conversation. It feels like a sign of where culture itself is moving. We are all craving so much more. At a time when modern life feels accelerated, transactional and emotionally fragmented, Zhao’s work has found global resonance because it returns audiences to something slower and more human: grief, belonging, tenderness, loneliness, memory and the fragile ways people con

Call the Doula In Pre-Production We prepare for birth. Why don’t we prepare for end of life? This is not a film about death. It is a film about love. Pre-production has commenced on our next feature documentary, Call the Doula , a careful exploration of end-of-life accompaniment and the growing role of end-of-life doulas. Across cultures and generations, dying was once held more visibly within families and communities — supported by ritual, continuity, and shared understandin

GIDII Advocacy Thought Leadership | Carriageworks, January 2026 In January, the GIDII Advocacy team met and filmed the founders of Conflictorium during its presentation at Carriageworks as part of Sydney Festival. What we encountered was not simply an exhibition about conflict. It was a structured civic experiment in something many modern systems still struggle to provide: a place for human repair after formal processes have run their course. And that distinction matters. YS

For too long, self-care has been misunderstood. It has been reduced to indulgence, framed as an escape from reality, or offered as a personal fix for problems that are clearly structural. In high-strain systems — health, education, advocacy, social services, emergency response, justice — this misunderstanding has consequences. People do not burn out because they lack scented candles. They burn out because the systems they work within place sustained ethical, emotional, and co

Something is shifting. Across communities, workplaces, families, and institutions, people are feeling the strain of systems that no longer hold. Conflict is louder. Polarisation is sharper. Economic pressure, environmental grief, moral injury, and social fragmentation are no longer abstract concepts — they are lived realities. If you feel it, you’re not imagining it. And yet, throughout history, when systems fracture, something else has always emerged alongside collapse: Hope

On 11 July 2026 , we will host HEAL & HOPE — a shared moment of reflection, remembrance, and collective care. HEAL & HOPE is not a conference or campaign. It is a deliberate pause. A space to acknowledge what has been carried — by individuals, families, communities, and systems — and to gently orient toward repair, dignity, and hope. More details will be shared closer to the date. For now, we simply invite you to hold the date . In a world shaped by urgency and fragm

Stories are everywhere. They are captured, shared, and consumed at speed. But documentary — at its best — is not content. It is witness. We tell stories not to perform pain, but to honour experience. Not to extract meaning, but to allow meaning to emerge. In families and communities, stories often carry what cannot be easily spoken: loss, rupture, survival, love. When these stories remain untold, they do not disappear. They are carried quietly — across generations, relationsh

In organisational and community settings, healing is often treated as something to introduce after harm has occurred. A program. A statement. A process designed to help people move on. But healing does not work that way. When harm is systemic, people do not heal because a framework is announced. They heal when what happened is acknowledged, responsibility is held, and meaningful repair begins. Healing is not about fixing individuals. It is about restoring integrity where

For years, we have relied on the language of burnout to explain why people are struggling at work. Burnout suggests exhaustion. Overload. Too much pressure for too long. And while those things are real, they are often not the full story. Increasingly, people are not unravelling because they are tired.They are unravelling because they are being asked to act against what they know to be right. This is moral injury. Moral injury occurs when individuals are placed in roles or