Online OPEN Professional Development Workshop

The Role of Chaplaincy in Palliative Care

As chaplains  working in palliative care, understanding the spiritual and existential dimensions of suffering is essential to providing truly holistic, compassionate care to people facing life-limiting illness. This training will equip you with practical skills to navigate these profound moments with confidence, helping you support others as they grapple with meaning, loss, and the deepest questions that arise at the end of life.

• Exploring peoples need to make meaning
• Ways to provide comfort, support and care
• The importance of holding space
• Accompanying people as they wrestle with the hard questions
• Responding to suffering
• Acknowledging shattered worldviews
• Assisting the person asking, “Where is God?”
• Providing vital resources

11am-1pm, 26 March 2026

This Special OPEN PD Workshop is open to anyone.

Cost is $40 for CA Members and $120 for Non-members.

Presented by Susan Marcuccio
Susan is an experienced professional/pastoral supervisor, AAOS Supervisor Trainer and Chaplain. She has a unique way of sharing information and concepts that are easy to understand and are very practical. She is passionate about supervision and mentoring providing a safe, non-judgemental space for people to feel cared for and supported. Her desire is to assist and empower people to find and excel in what gives them life, meaning and purpose and to engage in life-long transformational learning. Susans Chaplaincy experience has been with the NSW ambulance, Disaster Recovery Chaplaincy Network and the Hospital sector. Susan has her own full-time private practice “Perspective Supervision” and is the author of the book “New Perspectives in Supervision” which is now a text book for supervision training programs.