Connect Fest 2025

Transformation Through Connection

Do you desire more connection & growth?  Are you standing at a crossroads or seeking a community that will support your goals?

Join us for a powerful day of clarity, connection and purpose.

Connect Fest is your chance to pause the noise and return to your truth.

Expect thought-provoking talks, soul-stirring movement, and a potent mix of real conversations and personal breakthroughs.

What you’ll walk away with

🌟Clarity & Direction

Reconnect with what lights you up and get clear on the next step in your journey.

🌟 Embodied Confidence

Move beyond indecision and self-doubt with practices that anchor you back into your body and power.

🌟 Your Personal Growth Toolkit

Leave with techniques you can return to and tools that support mindset shifts, emotional resilience, and deep connection.

🌟 Authentic Relationships

Learn how to move beyond surface-level connection and cultivate real intimacy with yourself and others.

🌟 Awakened Energy & Joy

Expect to laugh, move, cry, connect, and leave feeling deeply alive.

Agenda highlights

• Pamella Pritchard: Connecting to what you really want. 

• Mat Banks: Connection with Self

• Gerald Puertas & Kyla Miniken: Deepen your connection with self and others through the art of Authentic Relating practices. 

• Ecstatic Dance: Let go and connect with your inner self and the community through free-flowing dance.

🔥 One transformative day. Practical tools. Authentic connections.

Event Details

Event times

Saturday, August 9th, 2025

7:45am - Gates open for coffee + connection

9:00am - Event kick-off

9:00pm - Event wraps up

The event will kick off at 9am sharp, so please arrive in plenty of time before the event to ensure you don’t miss out on anything.

Location & Parking

Kuranda Amphitheatre,

555 Barron Falls Rd, Kuranda QLD

The Kuranda Amphitheatre is an iconic venue surrounded by nature set in the beautiful Kuranda, 40 minutes drive from Cairns City Centre.

There will be plenty of free parking on site however we encourage carpooling to avoid congestion.

Please allow extra travel time as the Kuranda range is still undergoing roadworks.

Food

Food trucks will be there on the day to provide various food and beverage options. You are welcome to bring your own food, and we ask that if you bring rubbish, you take it away with you. Connect Fest takes pride in caring for the environment and is a Zero Trace event. 

There will be water stations there so that you can refill your water bottle through the day.

What To Wear

Wear what you feel good and comfortable in, feel free to express you own individual look. Bright colours are welcome and shoes are optional. There will be plenty of soft grass there to walk on.

Be sure to bring something warm for the evening as it will get chilly at that time of the year.

What To Bring

We encourage you to bring a refillable water bottle, diary, cushion, and/or yoga mat to sit on, an open mind, and your best smile.

What Not To Bring

There will be bag checks at the gate so please don’t bring any glass, alcohol or drugs into the event.

Secure your spot today and take the first step towards deeper connections! 🚀