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Good Grief

Finding your way through life's most difficult experiences

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Grief can arise in many situations, from doors in life closing, to relationships ending or loved ones passing away. Discover what grief can tell us and how to find light amidst periods of pain and loss.

Wednesday 05 August 2026
12:00pm-1:00pm (AEST) (11:30am SA, 10:00am WA)

Expert Speakers

Rev. Sarah Day-Weaver
Senior Chaplain & Professional Supervisor, NSW Ambulance

Hayley Russell
BA, MA SoSc (Health Services- Counselling), Grad Cert (Bereavement Counselling Intervention), Churchill Fellowship Award Recipient, 2022

Moderator

Dr Sadhbh Joyce
Senior Psychologist (MAPS, AAPi), Co-Founder of Mindarma, Meditation Teacher, External Fellow, Black Dog Institute/UNSW Medicine & Health

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Rev. Sarah Day-Weaver
Senior Chaplain & Professional Supervisor, NSW Ambulance

Rev. Sarah Day-Weaver is an ordained minister with extensive qualifications in psychology, ministry, divinity, law, business, and professional supervision. With more than 20 years of experience in emergency services chaplaincy and leadership, Sarah has supported individuals, families, and frontline personnel through some of life’s most difficult moments.

Currently serving as Senior Chaplain for NSW Ambulance, Sarah provides care and support to paramedics, staff, families, and volunteers navigating trauma, crisis, grief, and loss. Her role also includes supporting those impacted by critical incidents such as the recent tragic event at Bondi, as well as assisting chaplains in managing their own exposure to grief and loss while working in frontline pastoral care settings. Previously, Sarah was the Senior Chaplain for Queensland Immigration & Detention. Here she supported individuals facing the uncertainty and emotional strain of indefinite detention; a unique form of grief known as limbo.

Sarah’s understanding of grief extends far beyond her professional roles. She believes grief is not limited to death, but can arise from any unwanted change, including illness, injury, relationship breakdown, loss of work, uncertainty, or major life transitions. During her service in the ADF, Sarah personally experienced profound grief after losing her ability to walk. Following a coma and intensive medical care, she faced the challenge of relearning to walk, a journey that deeply informs her empathetic approach to those she supports.

Sarah has also guided families through personal losses, including facilitating the funeral of one her closest friends. Drawing on both lived experience and decades of frontline pastoral care, she approaches grief with authenticity, insight, and the conviction that there is no 'one size fits all' approach to healing, because every person’s journey through grief is unique.

Hayley Russell
BA, MA SoSc (Health Services- Counselling), Grad Cert (Bereavement Counselling Intervention), Churchill Fellowship Award Recipient, 2022

Hayley Russell is a passionate and committed clinician and researcher, working largely in areas which have traditionally held a level of stigma including death and dying and grief and loss.

Over the last ten years her career has involved highly specialised clinical work alongside research collaborations which truly make a difference in the lives of bereaved and cancer impacted Australians.

Hayley holds clinical membership with the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia and has presented research at several Australian conferences as well chairing a symposium and presenting data at the International Psycho-Oncology Symposium Conference on multiple occasions.

Hayley has co-authored papers published in journals including Psycho-Oncology, Frontiers in Psychology, Supportive Care in Cancer and the European Journal of Cancer Care. In 2022 she was one of 84 Australians awarded a Churchill Fellowship and in 2023 travelled internationally to investigate the impact of grief after Voluntary Assisted Dying. She was the recipient of the Transformational Researcher Award at the 2023 World Ovarian Cancer Coalition Impact Awards. Hayley currently holds the position of Specialist Grief Practitioner at Grief Australia.

Dr Sadhbh Joyce
Senior Psychologist (MAPS, AAPi), Co-Founder of Mindarma, Meditation Teacher, External Fellow, Black Dog Institute/UNSW Medicine & Health

Sadhbh is a highly experienced clinician with more than 20 years working across clinical, industrial and academic environments.

She has delivered evidence‑based psychological therapy to individuals experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma, bereavement and workplace injury. Her work is grounded in compassion, scientific rigour and a holistic approach to mental health and wellbeing.

With specialist expertise in neuropsychology, mindfulness, self‑compassion in psychotherapy and workplace mental health, Sadhbh has trained diverse groups including first responders, frontline health workers, allied health professionals, leaders, managers, educators, justice workers, lawyers and community workers.

Sadhbh’s contributions have been recognised nationally. She has received a Significant Contribution Award from the Australian Psychological Society for her translational research. Her online program, Mindarma, has been honoured with a Mental Health Matters Award from the NSW Mental Health Commission and a Resilient Australia Award from the NSW Government, and has received mental health grant support from the Victorian Government (2022) and the Government of South Australia (2023–2025).