This public lecture explores how kindness, empathy, and compassion are felt, embodied experiences shaped by our unique life histories—like shifting patterns in a kaleidoscope. Through personal stories, research insights, and reflections on presence, Professor Brand will illuminate how small acts of care create connection, shared humanity, and transformative spaces in healthcare and everyday life.

Gabrielle Brand is a Professor at Monash University Nursing & Midwifery and the Director of Graduate Research. She is recognised as an international health professions education leader in the co-design of education with healthcare consumers and is the co-founder of the ‘Depth of Field’ narrative portraiture methodology, which is used to teach health professionals to move beyond ‘diagnosis’ to more humanistic models of care. She has published and presented her research in Australia and internationally, authoring over 60 peer reviewed articles and several book chapters.

Professor Brand is a UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow, working with Dr Bríd Phillips and Professor Tanya Dalziell at UWA.

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