COMPASSION AT WORK: WHERE LEADERSHIP MEETS HUMANITY

We provide training, coaching, and tailored support for employers and employees navigating grief, death, loss, and caregiving in the workplace. Through tools, conversations, and leadership development, we help organisations build compassionate, resilient cultures where people feel safe, seen, and supported.

Compassion is good. For people. For purpose.

Our Services

  • Our foundational and advanced workshops are designed to equip teams, leaders, and individuals with the knowledge, tools, and confidence to respond with care, clarity and compassion to death, grief and loss in the workplace.

  • We offer expert guidance on creating compassionate, grief-informed workplace practices. Whether you're looking to develop or update policies around bereavement, caregiving, or end-of-life support, build a workplace grief response plan, or ensure your team is equipped to support colleagues through loss with empathy and clarity—we’re here to help.

  • Our process begins with listening. We offer a Compassionate Workplace Survey to assess your organisation’s current culture and identify strengths, gaps, and opportunities. Based on your needs, we co-design bespoke training and development pathways, ranging from one-off workshops to full accreditation.

  • We provide flexible coaching and mentoring to support employees, teams, and leaders navigating grief, bereavement, carer burden, or other significant loss.
    Our team includes death doulas, coaches, mindfulness practitioners, and social workers, offering a calm, skilled presence to guide conversations, provide emotional support, and help integrate loss into the rhythm of work life with dignity and care.

  • We offer ad hoc “TED-style” talks and panel events, featuring voices from palliative care, spirituality, mental health, bereavement, and lived experience. These talks are designed to open up workplace conversations about death, dying, caregiving, and grief, and can be tailored to suit your sector or team.

  • We host facilitated group sessions—like Death Cafés, Departure Lounges, or Tender Conversations at Work—where staff are invited to explore topics of loss, mortality, and meaning in a safe, open and non-clinical space.

Education and Training

  • Our core training is designed to build a foundation of compassion and confidence in responding to grief, death, and caregiving in the workplace. Topics include: Death in the workplace & supporting grieving colleagues, Supporting carers and understanding entitlements, Basics of compassion and personal preparedness, Recognising and understanding grief, How to have tender conversations at work

    Offered as a standalone workshop or as part of the Compassionate Workplace Certification Pathway.

  • Empowering managers and team leaders to role-model empathy, create psychologically safe teams, support staff through grief or crisis, and foster inclusive communication—especially in challenging conversations.

  • Build confidence and language for discussing sensitive topics like terminal illness, bereavement, or caregiving—while maintaining professionalism and compassion. Ideal for HR, people leaders, and team members alike.

  • Explore how different cultures approach death, mourning, and caregiving. Learn how to honour and support diverse needs and rituals in your workplace or team.

  • A beginner’s guide to understanding dying, death, and care in our communities—from what palliative care really means to what happens after someone dies. Empowers workplaces to be informed and prepared.

  • A practical guide to Advance Care Planning, Enduring Power of Attorney, and preparing for end-of-life—emotionally and legally. Supports employees to plan for themselves, loved ones, or clients with clarity and confidence.

FAQs

What is Compassionate Workplace Certification?

Compassionate Workplace Certification supports organisations to create a culture where grief, death, loss, and caregiving are met with empathy, clarity, and care. The certification process includes an evaluation of your current workplace culture—through a review of relevant policies and practices, and a confidential staff survey.

How much does Compassionate Workplace Certification

We aim to make support around grief and compassion in the workplace accessible to all organisations. Costs vary depending on the size and needs of your organisation. For workplaces with fewer than 20 staff, annual certification costs start at $2,000 + GST, which includes the survey, tailored recommendations, and an optional introductory workshop.

Contact Us

Let’s build a more compassionate workplace—together.

Whether you're curious about our workshops, looking to co-design something unique, or just exploring how compassion could transform your organisation, we’d love to hear from you.


About us

Maria Mariotti is a passionate advocate for compassionate communities and workplace wellbeing. As a management engineer, experienced trainer, educator and entrepreneur, she empowers organizations to foster compassion, equity, and resilience through tailored training programs. A certified NLP Master Practitioner and Coach, Maria has been teaching and practicing meditation, mindfulness, and yoga for nearly two decades, having studied at a traditional Yogic and Vedantin school in India. She brings extensive expertise in leadership development, cultural safety, and public health palliative care, with a deep commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and decolonization.

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