Do you see the state of the world and fear for your children or grandchildren? Do you want to get beyond wishful thinking or despair to participate in real change?
This workshop, based on the Work That Reconnects, provides useful resources that strengthen our motivation, creativity, courage and capacity to respond to challenging issues in our world, and allows participants to explore and grow connection - to the land, ourselves, and each other. This is Active Hope.
Throughout the day we will spend time on this Wurundjeri Woiwurrung and Boonwurrung/Bunurong border country, participating in nature immersion, deep listening and sharing, community building and eating good food! These practices will help us to discover new confidence and clarity to play our part in the collective transition to new ways of being that support the flourishing of life in this world.
Meals provided (vegan, with gluten free options)
Cost: sliding scale $75/$100/$125
Please contact us if cost would prevent you from attending as we are able to offer some further subsidised places. We are also happy to receive payment in instalments. Feel free to talk to us about using NDIS funding.
The Active Hope workshop is empowering. It shows we have agency to make change. We are taught to use stories, those we tell ourselves and others, that lead to action, can bring about real change to our self and throughout history. It counters the certain doom narratives, not focused on the inevitable destruction and instead taking the power back.
The workshop introduced the idea of legacy to motivate action now. It’s made me grow hakea seeds to grow trees that future generations of black cockatoos will feed on, instead of stressing about the death of one tree.
Wes Wilson
It was profoundly powerful to pause from the ‘fight against’ and have a space to grieve. It has reconnected my heart and soul into my work for change - I feel a bit more integrated, less overwhelmed, more hopeful and heart-felt.
Jessica Morrison, APAN (Australia Palestine Advocacy Network)
As a environmental activist, thinker, and writer, my thoughts can get pretty grim, and I can feel very isolated. This workshop was invigorating, connecting me with the earth, my own pain, with others, and with my mission. I can't recommend this workshop highly enough.
Mick Pope, meteorologist and theologian