For several years from 1988 Liese worked with and for Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross as a workshop leader and staff member, conducting seminars and workshops in New Zealand, Australia, USA and Europe.
After Dr. Ross’s retirement she has continued conducting workshops and trainings world-wide.
Since 1995, she has been training groups of health-care professionals as well as people affected by loss and grief in New Zealand, Samoa, Australia, Malaysia, the Philippines, India and Zimbabwe.
Over a period of 6 years (2001-2007) she was part of a Filipino medical specialist team, involved in assisting with the set up of a palliative care training programme in San Lazaro Hospital, a large infectious diseases hospital for the poor in Manila, The Philippines.
Her main focus in the program was attending to the high burn out rates of staff, facilitating workshops in staff-care as well as training the Filipino team in the facilitation of grief and self-care workshops. Her involvement in this programme was completed in 2007. This programme is up and running and the trainers in Manila are conducting ongoing training programmes in palliative care throughout the Philippines.
In 2005 and again in 2008, 2009 and 2010 she has had the privilege to conduct a series of workshops together with Dr. Sue Marsden for Hospis Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.
Dr. Ednin Hamzah of Hospis Malaysia and his team are very passionate about strengthening the availability and quality of palliative care in Malasia and have been working very hard in this area, with incredible results.
At present she is part of a trauma relief-training programme in Samoa on invitation and working together with the NGO: Women in Business Development Initiatives Incorporated.
This programme is being developed in response to the trauma, loss and devastation caused by the September 2009 Tsunami.
The other part of her work in Samoa is as a team member of the inaugural Palliative Care Workshop for Healthcare-Professionals, Non-Health care Professionals and Volunteers initiated and organised by the Oceania University of Medicine in Mootua Apia, Samoa. The purpose of this first workshop is to create a platform to introduce Palliative Care into the Oceania University of Medicine curriculum for both the graduate MD course and the undergraduate MBBS course.