Restoring wellbeing within ourselves, our relations, our places and our living world
“The greatest revolution of our times is the way we see the world … that we belong to a living, self-organising cosmos.“
~ Joanna Macy
Upcoming offerings
Being Well : Monthly online Meetups
NOV 19 : What’s getting in the way of your wellbeing?
DEC 19 : Summer Solstice gathering
7:30 – 8:45 pm AEDT
We’re delighted to introduce Being Well, a new monthly online series designed to nurture wellbeing within ourselves, our relationships, and the living world around us.
In today’s fast-paced culture, we often witness signs of distraction, disconnection, and distress—symptoms of systems that prioritise extraction over care, achievement over presence, and individualism over community. Our personal wellbeing is deeply intertwined with the wellbeing of our environment and each other.
Join us online as we build a supportive community focused on deepening our connection to inner well-being, reciprocity, and the natural rhythms of the Earth.
Cultivating new ways of being
FEB 6 – APR 3 , 2025 (Fortnightly)
8:00 – 9:30 am AEDT
We live in a world of rapid change and growing complexity. How do we navigate these challenges—both within ourselves and in the world around us?
To create meaningful change—within ourselves, our work, and our communities— we must cultivate practices to support our growth and new ways of being.
This experiential and transformative learning journey invites you to shift how you be, how you see, how you sense—so that you can act in new ways. Within five immersive sessions, working with somatic, regenerative, nature-based and creative approaches, you will develop the inner capacity to lead yourself to create meaningful change in your life, at work, and in the world around you.
Summer Retreat in Jervis Bay
FEB 21-23, 2025
We invite you to join us at School of Being for our Summer retreat ‘Seeing Anew’ in beautiful Jervis Bay on Yuin and Jerriwa Country to replenish, renew and reconnect.
During this new year retreat we will honour ourselves and our personal walk, our shared collective walk and set some intentions, to move forward with greater clarity, balance and purpose. This retreat is for anyone wanting to reset for the new year with intention, honour your experiences and our shared humanity, and move forward with greater clarity, balance and purpose.
Connect with like-hearted people, through guided practices in nature, connection circles and opportunities for stillness, reflection and play.
Held in a nurturing and safely held environment, leave feeling renewed, inspired and resourced.
Nested Well Being
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In a time of constant movement and rapid change, taking time to connect with our inner wellbeing and the world around us has never been more vital. Nested Wellbeing is a 3-part online series that invites you to deeply explore the interconnected layers of wellness within ourselves, our relationships, and our places.
Designed to integrate embodied practices with reflective insights, this course offers you an immersive and experiential journey toward a more holistic sense of wellbeing. We’ll explore ways to create healthier, more life-giving cultures, deepen our connection to inner wellness, and harmonise with the natural rhythms of the Earth.
Join us in this nourishing space where like-hearted people come together to cultivate practices that foster both individual and collective wellbeing.
Nature Constellations
Summer 2025 in Sydney & Jervis Bay
This summer, we will be hosting nature constellation workshops at beautiful outdoor locations in Sydney and Jervis Bay. In these workshops we will be together in nature and explore our personal, community and environmental wellbeing using an embodied mapping process called Nature Constellations.
Through creating living 3D maps, we can see our systems and situations from a new perspective gaining insights to help seed change.
In this gathering we will use Nature Constellations to explore
• Some different aspects of our lives
• Consider what’s getting in our way
• Use embodied group process to map the systems of a few participants
• Connect, listen and learn with Nature
Testimonials from participants
On the ‘Cultivating Ways of Being’ learning journey:
Past offerings
Yila Healing Trail:
Reconnecting with your Nature
SUN OCT 20, 10 – 1pm Falls Creek, Jervis Bay
Nature has much to teach us about living well and living more holistically. By being present with nature and observing her patterns, we can connect to both our innate nature and bring nature’s wisdom into our lives and work. Join us to:
• Explore aspects of our own nature and well-being
• Listen, connect and learn with Nature as ally and teacher
• Practice individual and embodied group processes to connect with self and nature
Nourish, Play & Connect Retreat
APRIL 12 – 14
Exploring ways of being in nature
By cultivating deeper awareness of ourselves, we are better placed to reimagine and actualise a flourishing living world for our lives and all of our kin. This intimate weekend learning experience is for people interested in wellbeing , wishing to explore practices informed by Somatic, Creative, Nature-based and Regenerative approaches within a small learning community.In a beautiful natural location, we will together work with practices that can support the inner changes required for individual and collective transformation.
Listening, Perspective-taking, and Reflective practice
MARCH 27
Listening, perspective-taking and reflective practice support wise decision-making. Embodied reflective practices can help us see situations from new perspectives. On March 27, the School of Being led an embodied practice for participants for the launch of the Wollongong, IDG G’Local Hub. Using their sensing capabilities to see different perspectives, participants reflected upon a challenge they face through embodied practices.
Changemakers Listening Circle
APRIL 10
Navigating our Practice from Personal to Collective
Changemakers are navigating complex contexts. We want to contribute to positive change in our worlds – including environmental, political, cultural, societal, economic, and technological. We want to contribute to a future of flourishing, for our children and future generations. But what do we need to flourish? And how might we become more resilient so that we can meet systemic challenges? Join Alissa Fleet, Viv Sung, Jax Wechsler and your design peers in a listening circle to reflect and explore together.
A Taste of Being : Sensing Potential
Where is the potential in our challenges?
MARCH 28
A short online learning experience where we will look at an area or issue within our lives where we may feel some stuckness and participate in an embodied practice to explore its potential. Through an embodied practice, you can tap into your embodied knowing to sense new possibilities, fresh insights or a new way forward beyond your thinking. With every inner block, there is also a gift. Join like-hearted and like-minded community interested in restoring wellbeing within ourselves, our relations, our places and our living world.
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