Go With Grace

17/09/2025

A very special thank you to the incredible team at North Haven Hospice for partnering with us to make Dying Matters Week Aotearoa possible, and for bringing these important conversations to our community.

Your knowledge, compassion, and generosity helped so many people to gain a deeper understanding of hospice care, the support available for whānau, what natural death looks like, and how people can get involved through volunteering with you.

We are especially grateful to your staff, who generously shared their expertise giving talks in the community:
Dr Warrick Jones - What is a Natural Death
Tanya Newman - Getting Your Ducks in a Row
Christine West - Caring for Carers (Compassionate Communities Series)
Julianne Rose - Creating a Mini Memory Box to remember a loved one

16/09/2025

We’re deeply grateful to our sponsors Haven Falls Poutama Tangihanga Funeral Home for supporting your community by sponsoring Dying Matters Week in Whangārei!

Thank you for helping us to shine a light on how personal and meaningful funerals can be and for sharing your wisdom, experience and services. Your mahi supporting whānau to have the kōrero and plan ahead is so very important.

16/09/2025

Sincerest thanks to our wonderful Dying Matters Week sponsors and long-time supporters Henderson Reeves Lawyers for your ongoing generosity and commitment to supporting our community!

Special thanks to your wonderful team who supported three talks this year covering Māori Land Succession, and also Legal Matters relating to end-of-life planning, such as wills, estate planning, power of attorney, advance care planning and more.

16/09/2025

In Belinda's latest podcast, she chats with Katy from Go With Grace about living with grief after su***de, love, loss and letting people in. 💜

Guess what time it is........ time for series two of DYING TO KNOW podcast.
I'm super excited to share with you the newly released episode one where I sit down with Katy Mandeno founder of Go with Grace.
Go With Grace is a platform built from the hardest kind of knowing. After losing her daughter, her father, and then her partner Chris to su***de, Katy didn’t try to fix her grief. She chose to hold it, and then she chose to help others do the same.

This conversation moves through the raw terrain of grief, su***de loss, end-of-life planning, and what it means to live in a world that rarely prepares us for any of it. Katy shares what it was like to be in shock and still have to make decisions. She talks about what helped, what didn’t, and how we can better show up for people when everything falls apart.

You’ll also hear about Dying Matters Week, compassionate communities, and why your village matters more than ever.

This episode is full of emotional clarity, practical insight, and the quiet reminder that showing up, even with soup or silence, matters more than we think.
You can find the episode here:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0la54h8th2FtisgJ2nhoFh
Go With Grace

15/09/2025

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us for Dying Matters Week Aotearoa 2025 in Whangārei! What an amazingly rich week of kōrero, sharing and learning!

Your presence, questions, and stories helped create a compassionate and meaningful atmosphere in every session and workshop. It was wonderful to see the high engagement, and we hope this event has helped you to start important conversations with family and friends.

As well as publishing the national online talks on our website, we’ll also be sharing some of the talks that were recorded during the week - keep an eye on our website for these as well as some great resources that have been shared by our speakers, partners and sponsors.

Thank you again for supporting this grassroots event to bring these important conversations into our community.

15/09/2025

The Go With Grace Podcast with Katy Mandeno is Live!

In our very first episode, Katy interviews Esther Perriam, part of the amazing team at The Eldernet Group. For so many people, trying to navigate the many changes that happen toward end of life, and understanding what you might need as you age, can be very challenging.

The Eldernet Group does an incredible job of understanding these needs, and helping people to explore all their options, including what you need to know before moving into a retirement village or residential care facility.

Listen to the full interview on Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/episode/1gOMSvYtw8D2Jn9gM1O70r?si=337a656802f34c6c

12/09/2025

As part of Dying Matters Week 2025, we invited people in the community to remember their loved ones by writing a poem. If you attended in-person events in your local area last week, you might have seen some of these poems displayed.

By sharing stories about death and dying, we believe it helps us all to better understand these experiences, and be better prepared to not only support ourselves but also support others.

You can now dowload the 2025 Dying Matters Week Poetry Collection at https://gowithgrace.nz/product/2025-dying-matters-week-poetry-collection/

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who contibuted.

11/09/2025

Want to feel more confident supporting a colleague or employee when loss and grief touch their lives? This webinar is for you!

Recording is provided for all registered participants.

Register now: griefcentre.org.nz/webinars

11/09/2025

No One Dies Alone (NODA) is an incredible programme taking place in Auckland, Canterbury and other regions around New Zealand.
Find out more in this online talk recorded by Honohono Tātou Katoa as part of Dying Matters Week Aotearoa.

09/09/2025

08/09/2025

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/gisborne-herald/news/hospice-tairawhiti-launching-dying-matters-week-events-in-gisborne/CQCPTJR3XVED3GD7DB553JJNCU/?fbclid=IwY2xjawMrJPRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETF2OFNDdEFsOEM3aGFPNmp6AR75zNEJ6tOqCu4OU_1PSgqdwHFOaYymZYTHTyzJtEp0LB4Cbfxq3zBt4Hv81w_aem_NQWYcJ1A8jyjpUfvHOJDzw

Dying Matters Week is coming to Gisborne for the first time in 2025.