Dr Cornelia Drenth is employed by the Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa in the capacity of Palliative Care Development Officer (Northwest Hospices). She has held a part-time private practice as a social worker for the past thirteen years (loss, grief and bereavement, trauma counselling, Road Accident Fund). Her field of expertise is social work in health care, with specific emphasis on loss and bereavement as well as conducting workshops in this regard. Her knowledge base includes palliative care, people living with disabilities, oncology, neurology, rehabilitation, and trauma management. Cornelia Drenth completed a Ph.D. (SW) from the North-West University (Potchefstroom, SA). She co-authored five published articles and contributed to The Legal Aspects of Palliative Care, published by HPCA. Alida Herbst (Ph.D.) is an associate professor and chair person of the Social Work Division in the School for Psychosocial Behavioural Sciences at the Potchefstroom campus of the North-West University, South Africa. Before entering academia, she worked as a medical social worker in 1 Military Hospital as well as a number of private hospitals in South Africa. She specialises in trauma and bereavement work and presents a number of workshops called the Comfort, Care and Compassion series. She has a particular interest in life story work and co-authored a book with the title Memory Work: Telling Your Story through Life Maps. Her research focuses on the psycho-social health of individuals, groups and communities. She has a keen interest in the community engagement activities of the university and is the chairperson of the Student Rag Community Services (SRCS) Advisory Board. The SRCS annually engage 3,000 student volunteers in ninety-two community projects focusing on early childhood development, youth development, support to vulnerable adults and a number of outreach projects. Alida firmly believes in creating co-constructed learning environments whenever she teaches. The ripples-on-apond model of teaching and learning offers an excellent framework for experiential learning and reflective practice which allows her to integrate narratives and art in her teaching on basically all graduate levels. It is particularly valuable when topics like ethics, the professional self, beginner’s practice and stress management form part of the teaching curriculum. She has presented a number of papers on related topics at both international and national conferences and has published a number of national and international scholarly articles. Prof. Herman Strydom was previously a staff member of the University of Pretoria and has since 1987 been appointed as associate professor and since 1999 as professor in Social Work at the Potchefstroom Campus of the North-West University. He was also the Subject Head for Social Work for fourteen years until the end of 2012. His interest regarding subject matter focuses on HIV and AIDS, gerontology, crime and research methodology. He is author and co-author of 104 accredited journal articles, while he is also author and co-author of forty-four chapters in various textbooks and related publications. Herman Strydom is a NRF-rated scientist on level C3. He was involved in presenting eighty-two papers at national and eighty-six at international conferences.