Develop your skills in supporting women, parents, and families experiencing perinatal loss, while also learning how to protect your own wellbeing during emotionally challenging care episodes.
Hosted by the NSW Nurses and Midwives Association, this in-person workshop is designed for nurses and midwives who provide care to families after miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal death, or pregnancy ending for personal or medical reasons.
Event details
- Date: Friday, 27 November 2026
- Time: 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
- Venue: NSW Nurses and Midwives Association
- Address: 50 O'Dea Avenue, Waterloo, NSW 2017
- Hosted by: NSW Nurses and Midwives Association
- Organiser: NSW Nurses and Midwives Association
- Tickets: A$95 – A$190
- Certificate: CPD certificate provided
- Catering: Lunch and refreshments provided
About the workshop
Perinatal loss is a deeply sensitive and challenging area of care. This workshop helps nurses and midwives build the knowledge, confidence, and practical tools needed to provide compassionate, evidence-informed bereavement support.
Coinciding with Perinatal Mental Health Week 2026, the workshop also responds to Recommendation 35 of the NSW Select Committee on Birth Trauma, which recommends that all maternity healthcare practitioners receive training in bereavement support.
What you’ll learn
The programme is designed to help attendees:
- Understand what perinatal grief is
- Recognise common grief reactions after perinatal loss
- Understand how perinatal grief affects bereaved parents
- Explore how perinatal loss affects nurses, midwives, and other healthcare professionals
- Learn practical ways to support bereaved families in care settings
- Understand supports available to families after discharge
- Learn about support during subsequent pregnancies
- Develop strategies to support your own wellbeing while caring for families experiencing loss
Presenter
The workshop is presented by Eliza Strauss, a Bereavement Midwife recognised for her work in perinatal loss in maternity hospital settings.
Eliza was awarded the national Excellence in Bereavement Care Award by the Australian College of Midwives. In partnership with the Centre of Perinatal Excellence, she educates midwives and front-line health professionals on providing bereaved parents with appropriately sensitive support.
Who it’s for
This workshop is designed for midwives and nurses who support families through pregnancy loss, stillbirth, neonatal death, or pregnancy ending for personal or medical reasons.
It may be especially relevant for professionals working in maternity, neonatal, emergency, women’s health, general practice, community health, and related clinical settings.
Why this workshop matters
Although perinatal bereavement care is emotionally difficult, best practice support can make a profound difference for families experiencing loss.
This workshop helps nurses and midwives approach these moments with greater sensitivity, confidence, and awareness, while also recognising the need to care for their own mental wellbeing.
Registration and attendance notes
Places for this workshop are limited.
Lunch and refreshments are provided, and attendees will receive a CPD certificate at the end of the seminar.
The NSW Nurses and Midwives Association’s Education Cancellation, Refund and Catering policy is available on the NSWNMA website.
Important note
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