Co-creating a flourishing world
‘Change how you see and see how you change’ -Zen proverb
About us
The School of Being’s offerings sit at the intersection of inner and outer transformation. We see these as not only linked, but also as systemic and holistic approaches for change.
Inner development and systemic sensemaking can help us to grow the capacities required to navigate these changing times and bring in the changes we want and need in the world right now.
How we listen, reflect, and sense inform how we act in our lives and in the world. Growing awareness and questioning outdated ways of working, being, doing and knowing can support us to co-create more life-sustaining futures for all. These times require new ways of being.
Our approach
Our approach is informed by a unique blend of practices including Somatic, Creative, Nature-based and Regenerative approaches. These practices can support the inner changes required for individual and collective transformation.
Through cultivating deeper awareness of self, each other, our places and our living world we are better placed to reimagine and actualise a flourishing living world for all of life.
Our offerings
BEING
Inner Development
Our inner awareness informs how we see, sense, and relate to others, our work, our communities, and the world. We help people make the inner changes required to meet life and work with greater resilience and creativity. We aim to enhance ‘response-ability’, i.e. the ability to respond to work and life with greater presence, self-awareness, and wisdom. Inner development helps us release blocks and barriers, tap into our inner knowing, to realise our potential. Inner change is needed to create outer change.
SENSING Systemic Sensemaking
Identifying opportunities and pathways for change requires systemic awareness and relational capacity. The practices and tools we share develop capacity for individuals and groups to better understand and make sense of complexity, see new potential, and work together to mobilise change and co-create better futures. We work with diverse ways of sensing and seeing, such as phenomenological, embodied practices, listening circles and creative mapping methods.
ACTING
Catalysing Potential
How we see, feel, perceive and sense informs how we think, act and create in the world. We work with teams and organisations to navigate transitions, expand perspectives, envision the future, identify pathways and interventions for change, and co-create new potential. Our programs aim to catalyse creativity and collaboration, develop capacity for diverse forms of knowing, and activate individual and collective will, empowering people to co-create more flourishing futures.
Who we are
Vivien Sung
Viv is a systemic designer, regenerative practitioner, and educator passionate about facilitating individual and collective change to restore wellbeing and right relationship with our living world. Her deep curiosity has led her on a lifelong quest to explore diverse modalities that foster societal and planetary well-being. By integrating her expertise in visual and systems thinking, leadership and inner development, regenerative practices, systemic constellations, earth-based traditions and energy healing, she stewards transformative pathways for inner and outer renewal. She believes that transitioning to flourishing futures will involve much more than technological advancement but a rekindling of heart, creativity and spirit.
Jax Wechsler
Jax is a trauma-informed strategic designer, regenerative practitioner, facilitator, educator, and coach passionate about change, inner development and enabling better futures for individuals, society and the planet. She has been interested in earth based spirituality for 20 years and over the last few has been on a personal journey into greater embodiment and new ways of being. Studying neuroscience and polyvagal theory helped her draw a link between intergenerational, personal and collective trauma, personal and collective resilience, and creativity. She strongly believes that new ways of being will help people to meet current social and environmental challenges, to thrive and to flourish.
Our guiding values
Life enhancing
Growing vitality and coming into wholeness within ourselves, in our relations to one another and to the planet. Connecting with the lifeforce energy available to us to be in flow with life.Regenerative
Regenerating life, seeing potential and creating conditions for flourishing. Living in balance and reciprocity with Gaia and her natural living systems, growing a thriving ecosystem for future generations.
Connection
Connecting with ourselves, each other, our place, Gaia and all of our kin. Nurturing strong relational networks to support us through our inner and outer transformation.
Courage
Stepping out of our comfort zone to do the inner work, so we can see, be and act differently. Expanding our response-ability to create change in ourselves, our lives and in the world. Daring to work and dream from the heart.
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