'Quiet Cubicles': Facilitating Workplace Grief and Loss with Compassion

💡 Why should you attend?

Grief and loss at the workplace oftentimes is embedded within a culture of silence. In the face of professionalism, we avoid expressing negative emotions. Acknowledging death at the workplace also seems to particularly unbalance us. This talk focuses on compassionately understanding and facilitating grief and loss at the workplace and provides a practical example with tips on how to conduct a brief grief intervention that can celebrate and dignify the life of a lost colleague.

🟢 Who should attend?

The talk is suitable for everyone currently working or employed, but might hit home for those in leadership roles who might have to deal with deaths and losses as a managerially.

We encourage all workers and employees (especially those in supervisory, management or leadership roles) to join us.

✨ About the speaker

Dr Paul Victor Patinadan is an Assistant Professor with the Psychology Programme at Nanyang Technological University specialising in health research. He holds a concurrent appointment as an Health Professions Educator with the National Healthcare Group and is also an Association for Death Education and Counselling (ADEC) certified Thanatologist. As an interdisciplinary mixed-methods researcher, Dr Patinadan specializes in psychosocial interventions and therapies, the implementation science of such interventions, holistic education across stakeholders in care-ecosystems, and how the medical humanities can be employed for effective and humanistic pedagogy. He has worked on several projects with a focus on clinical outcomes for various illness trajectories, community and critical health psychology, psychosociospiritual wellbeing for patients and their families, and evaluative research for health organizations. These include investigating the health behaviours of the chronically-ill, understanding the role of dignity for individuals at the end of life, facilitating the grieving process for surviving family, and evaluating the Singaporean National Advance Care Planning Programme. Dr Patinadan’s recent work focuses on how grieving individuals employ their shared experiences with food and eating to facilitate their healing process. To date, Dr Patinadan has participated in multiple international and local conferences, and has been awarded with a number of honours.

This talk is organised as part of Singapore Hospice Council's Live Well. Leave Well. Festival 2025. Click here to see more programme highlights.

About Singapore Hospice Council

Singapore Hospice Council (SHC) is a registered charity and an umbrella body representing organisations that actively provide hospice and palliative care in Singapore.

SHC is committed to improving the lives of patients with serious illnesses and giving support to the loved ones of these patients. It aims to coordinate and promote hospice and palliative care in Singapore; to support the training of doctors, nurses, allied-health workers, caregivers, and volunteers; to improve on the quality of palliative care; and to raise public awareness. It acts as the voice of hospice and palliative care within Singapore and internationally.

For enquiries, email us at info@singaporehospice.org.sg