Events

#IJustShowedUp

Meet our Keynote Speaker Yvonne HeathYvonne is the founder of Love Your Life to Death and the #IJustShowedUp movement. As “Canada’s Proactive Living Consultant,” Yvonne teaches community how to Just Show Up for themselves and others so they are empowered and resilient when grief and life’s challenges arrive. What to Expect Exhibitors, speakers, resources, liveContinueContinue reading “#IJustShowedUp”

Compassionate Hamilton Aims to Get Us Talking About Death and Dying

Organization is hosting its second annual Circle of Friends event to bring together local resources available to patients and families. Original article by Meredith MacLeod published in Hamilton City Magazine on October 28, 2024. Dying is a fact of life but even the healthcare system struggles to really talk about it, says a family physicianContinueContinue reading “Compassionate Hamilton Aims to Get Us Talking About Death and Dying”

Circle Of Friends

2nd Annual Compassionate Hamilton event will focus on how community can help those with serious illness live well to the end. Following a successful inaugural event, Compassionate Hamilton is returning this fall with a focus on the role community can play in helping those in palliative treatment live well. The 2nd annual event is beingContinueContinue reading “Circle Of Friends”

Death Demystified in Dundas

May 4, 2024 At Compassionate Hamilton’s spring event, family medicine and palliative care physicians Drs. Erin Gallagher and Matthew Yau led a community walk through Downtown Dundas. At this event, Drs. Gallagher and Yau explore the impact of community on living well with serious illness, as well as on death, loss and bereavement. See photosContinueContinue reading “Death Demystified in Dundas”

Living in the Gap

An honest look into how death, dying, loss, grief and bereavement are experienced in Hamilton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqlGX_Eic3U At Compassionate Hamilton’s inaugural event, we spoke to these experts to find out how Hamilton can become a more compassionate community. Panelists Dr. Sammy Winemaker and Maggie Civak, The Waiting Room Revolution Podcast Jammy Lo – Keeping Six, HamiltonContinueContinue reading “Living in the Gap”