SACRED HEART BIOGRAPHY SERVICE

OVERVIEW

  
    CLIENT:
    St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney
  
    AGENCY:
    N/A
  
    PROJECT:
    Sacred Heart Community Palliative Care Biography Service
  
    MY ROLE:
    Volunteer biographer
  
    DATE:
    2020-current
  
    SECTOR:
    Health care

THE CLIENT

The Sacred Heart Biography Service based at St Vincent’s Hospital, Darlinghurst, provides an opportunity for people in community palliative care living to sit with a biography volunteer and tell their life story.

The service supports clients to find meaning in life and to leave a tangible legacy. It normalises death and places value on the lived experience of the dying.

As a volunteer biographer, it is the most important and meaningful ‘job’ I’ve ever had with the opportunity to be part of an amazing community of fellow biographers and coordinators.

MY ROLE

Meeting with palliative care clients (over 5-6 sessions) to hear their story
Compassionate listening
Recording and transcribing
Editing final biography

WEBSITE

https://www.svhs.org.au/support-us/volunteer/sacred-heart-community-palliative-care-biography-service