October 19, 2025 - When Kindness Turns Dangerous: The Dark Side of Compassion

Service Leader: Paula Greenwood

Guest Speaker: David Kennedy

Music: Linda Clark

Our guest speaker, David Kennedy, was the first dedicated Grief and Bereavement Coordinator, with Hospice Peterborough and was with Hospice for 13 years. Now, together with palliative and bereavement health care professionals Julie Brown, and Red Keating, he has a podcast ‘What Now? On the threshold of life, death and grief.’

 David will explore the traditional meaning of compassion fatigue and then move to a revised understanding and finish with some practical things we can do to keep ourselves healthy and compassionate.