Empathy Symposium


The Art of Empathy: Reimagining Healthcare Symposium
is part of the Empathy Imperative that brings together educators, students, researchers, healthcare practitioners, people with lived experience, and creative practitioners to explore how empathy shapes – and transforms – healthcare. Through research presentations, shared lived experience, interactive discussions, and creative expression, the symposium provides an opportunity to explore how empathy can be taught, researched, embodied, and practised, with the aim of humanising healthcare.

Hosted by Monash Nursing and Midwifery

Symposium details

The Empathy Symposium will be three days of collaborative dialogue which will include a keynote, plenary and invited speakers, workshops and creative expressions, and oral and poster presentations exploring empathy across health professions education, research and practice.

2026 Dates:
2 December - Workshops and welcome reception
3 - 4 December - Symposium  (registration from 08:30am)

Location:
Cube 37 Gallery, Frankston Arts Centre

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Special Exhibition

Depth of Field: 'Baring' Witness: Narrative Portraiture in Healthcare

bare
/bɛː/ verb
gerund or present participle: baring

  1. uncovering (a part of the body or other thing) and exposing it to view

Join Gabrielle Brand & Steve Wise for an exhibition titled: Depth of Field which explores what it means to be a human working in healthcare.

The exhibition will run from 3 - 19 December 2026 at Cube 37 Gallery, 37 Davey Street, Frankston, Opening hours: Tue – Fri 10-4.45 and Sat 10-2.

Audio accompanies each artwork, so please bring your own headphones to enjoy it fully.

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All artwork featured by Professor Gabrielle Brand and Steve Wise.