Our Approach
OUR APPROACH
Our Founder, Mary Matthiesen learned first hand that trained healthcare professionals know things the public don’t about end of life options and care, and families and patients know things healthcare staff don’t about what matters most to them. Neither can make a difference unless they talk about it. Bringing messages from both, she convened some of the best wisdom to develop programmes that inspire conversations for end of life choices for the general public and improve outcomes for healthcare staff and organizations committed to compassionate care.
OUR GOAL is to aid individuals, healthcare professionals, and communities to partner in addressing one of the greatest social issues facing our generation-one conversation at a time.
OUR PROGRAMS are based on the lived stories and experience of professionals and family members alike, who have held, or regretted not holding, end of life conversations and lived with the outcomes. Through their stories, we teach and remind us all about what’s essential and what’s possible when we are prepared.
WHAT MATTERS MOST
Our programs are all about our quality of living and what matters most. They move beyond simply educating and instructing the public, patients and healthcare professionals about choices. They combine communication skills and content with compassion and a common goal.
Through story, experiential exercises and front-line experience, we focus on developing the awareness, motivation, and confidence in the roles we each have in choosing and requesting our own care, while supporting healthcare professionals to work in partnership with patients, families, and other community organizations to ensure the end of our lives are supported to meet our wishes.