Resume

Beaté Steller is a Sydney based adult educator, published author, accredited mental health social worker, counsellor, clinical supervisor, spiritual care practitioner and registered nurse. She has gathered experience in these roles over 40 years in a variety of sectors and industries, including health, palliative and aged care, social housing, and long-term unemployment. Beaté was Lifeline Sydney/Sutherland’s telephone and suicide prevention trainer for 10 years. She has a special interest in working with older people and has been working in Residential Aged Care for over the last 14 years in the roles of Social Worker and Spiritual Wellbeing Co-ordinator.
For over a decade Beaté has specialized in grief and loss education/counselling and transition counselling and was a Director of the Board of NALAG (National Association for Loss) and Grief between 2009 – 2020. She had her first book published in 2017 called Tech-connect –Staying Meaningfully Connected in Aged Care. She completed her second master’s degree in Ageing and Pastoral Studies in 2019 and her research was on Mindfulness Meditation Groups in Residential Aged Care which was published as: Mindfulness meditation in residential aged care: what frail older people identified as beneficial for their spiritual care and well-being, Journal of Religion, Spirituality & Spirituality & Aging. Her latest book is called Meditation for Older People: A How to Guide for Mindfulness Meditation Groups.

Beaté has a history of working with people from Indigenous and culturally diverse backgrounds. Beaté also holds professional membership with the AASW, AAOS, the NSW Health Services Profession (as a Registered Nurse. She has both graduate and postgraduate qualifications in Adult Education, Social Work and Nursing, holds a Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training.