Creative Arts & Ecotherapy Melbourne 

We integrate mindfulness and compassion, creative arts and ecopsychology with ancient earth-based tradition, wisdom of the human body, the body of community, and the body of the Earth. Building our way finding capacity—helping us reclaim our ancestral nature connection, intuitive consciousness awareness, honouring the inner compass, and reconnecting with an ecological self to take courageous, creative and wise action in our lives.

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The Heart of Our Ecotherapy Offering: The Path To Wholeness and Connection

 

Through circle and retreat gatherings, we aim to heal our relationship with the living Earth as our ancestor and kin. Weaving in Goddess and pagan wisdom from early western European culture with mindfulness that has it's roots in the East. Through our felt sense, imagination, the work that reconnects, and creative ritual in circle community, we reclaim our deepest soul connection and learn to live and lead from a grounded intelligence and emergent interconnected wisdom. I can also we've some of this approach into the one on one empower coaching program for more holistic support. The Creative arts and ecotherapy approach includes:​​

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Community Wisdom & Connection

• Holding the Pain for the World: Creating safe, communal container to fully acknowledge and articulate the grief, fear, and anger arising from the ecological crisis (The Great Unravelling). This radical acceptance transforms overwhelm into active hope and shared purpose.

• Collective Joy: Engaging in group processes that enhance collective joy, creativity, and strength, fostering a sense of shared belonging, ethno-diversity, and cultivating the courage needed to support one another in taking wise action. We draw inspiration from traditions that honour the immanent divine, celebrating our fierce love for the living world.

 

Depth & the Ecological Self

• Uncovering Patterns of Separation: Using Jungian Depth Psychology to uncover old, unconscious psychological patterns of separation—the internalised narrative that positions humans outside of nature. Engage with active imagination and creativity to work on healing our collective culture and more-than-human kin.

• Reclaiming the Ecological Self: Reconnecting with your essential nature and sense-making, fostering a feeling of being aligned, whole, and a vital part of the natural world's vast, intelligent web of life. This connection inspires and resources you to take wise action in your community, work, and lifestyle.

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Mindfulness & Embodied Presence

• The Power of Being Present: Drawing on Mindfulness (like the work of Jon Kabat-Zinn) to cultivate insight, compassion, and awareness of body, mind, nature, and community. Rest deeply, restore and renew your energy in nature.

• Somatic Grounding: Developing sustainable tools to regulate our nervous system and cultivate a steady, embodied presence amidst life's challenges, rooting deeply in the timeless intelligence of the felt sense of your body, community and the Earth and the awareness that flows through everything.​​

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Sacred Circle & Creative Arts

• The Power of Creative Ritual: Drawing from the principles of Earth-based Spirituality, we engage in ritual, storytelling, writing and creative arts practice for expression, moving energy and honouring thresholds and life cycles. 

• Creating Sacred Space: Learning to intentionally define and hold space—both outdoors and within our communities—to deepen presence, intention, and collective power and wisdom. This practice grounds us in the knowledge that the Earth itself is sacred and whole, and we are part of its renewal.