We are thrilled to announce ......

Healing Waters: Waves of Reconciliation and Resiliency

A 5Rhythms® Workshop with Douglas Drummond US/NZ

Waves of Reconciliation and Resiliency is a 5Rthythms moving meditation dance exploration of how healing begins within, and how inner presence becomes a quiet, powerful force for collective repair.

Reconciliation is often spoken about as something external: something to be negotiated, repaired, or resolved “out there.” In this workshop, we begin closer to home. We turn inward to explore the places within ourselves that ask for acknowledgement, compassion, and integration. From this inner witnessing, a deeper capacity for reconciliation naturally arises, one rooted not in fixing, but in presence, honesty, and relational awareness.

Through the embodied dance practice of 5Rhythms®, we explore reconciliation as a lived experience rather than an abstract idea. We learn to bear witness to our own stories, sensations, and emotional landscapes, and to meet others with greater clarity and care. As we do, resilience begins to germinate, not as hardness or endurance, but as a flexible, supple , responsive strength that allows us to remain open, courageous, and engaged.

Reconciliation as an Inner Act

A central theme for this journey is an invitation that reconciliation begins with returning to wholeness within ourselves. When we reconcile the divided parts of our inner world, our fears and hopes, our grief and joy, our light and shadow, we create the conditions for authentic reciprocity with others.

This workshop is not about trying to fix ourselves or anyone else. Instead, it invites a deep, honest questioning of:
• How do I meet my own complexity?
• Where do I resist, withdraw, or harden, and why?
• What becomes possible when I stay present rather than reactive?

This internal witnessing becomes the catalyst for resilience. As we develop the capacity to stay with our own experience, we strengthen our ability to be present with others and in our communities. Resilience then trickle outwards, like a stream, —supporting relationship, dialogue, and flowing towards a collective pool of wellbeing, .

Using the wave-like arc of the 5Rhythms: Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, and Stillness, we explore:
• Reconciliation within the self: cultivating self-trust, compassion, and embodied listening.
• Reciprocity with others: practicing presence, boundaries, and relational honesty.
• Resilience in community: sensing how individual regulation and openness support collective strength.

Movement becomes a language for what is often difficult to articulate with words. We are invited to embody our intentions, our resistance, our care. We practice staying in relationship, with ourselves, with one another, and with the larger field we inhabit.

This is a space to slow down, to feel, to listen, and to remember that resilience does not emerge from separation, but from connection.

We are thrilled and deeply honoured to welcome Milan Dhiiyaan to the team for this workshop. Led by Wiradjuri & Ngemba/Wailwaan songwoman and senior cultural educator Nyimirr (Fleur Magick Dennis) and Ngemba/Wailwaan & Yuin songman and senior cultural educator Millmullian (Laurance Magick Dennis), Milan Dhiiyaan, meaning “One Family, One Mob”, will offer an acknowledgement and ritual to help support the space with intention, respect, connection and healing.

Through story, movement, and ritual, Milan Dhiiyaan carry and share ancient Aboriginal ways of being, doing, and knowing that continue to strengthen identity, resilience, belonging, and relationship to community and the earth. https://www.milandhiiyaan.com

This collaboration feels deeply aligned with the heart of Healing Waters, exploring reconciliation not only as an external conversation, but as a lived, embodied practice that begins within ourselves and ripples outward into our relationships and communities.

A Safe-as-Possible Container

Together, we will do our best to create a safe-as-possible container, one that honors choice, self-responsibility, and respect. This workshop is designed to nurture empathy, forgiveness, and trust, while acknowledging that each participant carries their own history and pace.

No prior 5Rhythms experience is required. This workshop is open to all bodies, backgrounds, and levels of experience. You are invited exactly as you are.

Our time together is an invitation to:
• Reconnect with your inner strength without armoring.
• Cultivate resilience that is responsive, not rigid.
• Practice reconciliation as an embodied, relational act.
• Support healthier relationships and more resilient communities, starting from within.

We would love to have you join us!

All workshop hours contribute to 5Rhythms® teacher training prerequisites.

This workshop is designed for everyone, of every age, and shape.

Mob participate for free.

DATES:
Fri 12 June, 7pm - 9.30pm (arrive 6.40pm for a 7pm start)
Sat 13 June, 11am - 6pm
Sun 14 June, 11am - 5pm

Information and bookings:
Sue Andersen // sueandersendance@gmail.com // 0427863486
Booking link:

Where: Balmain Town Hall, 370 Darling Street Balmain

**NB this is a full immersion and there will be no open dance on Friday. This is deep transformative work and there is a need to create a strong container and to begin the work altogether.

Cost:

$350 Tier 1
$380 Tier 2

$400 Tier 3
$435 Regular with scholarship donation

**Please be in contact with Sue if you are committed to coming but don't have the $s right now and might need a payment plan.

** We are mindful of inclusivity and access to this workshop. We have allocated a number of part sponsored places for Waves of Reconciliation and Resilience. If this would help you to attend the workshop please send Sue Andersen an email outlining why you'd like to attend the workshop and how it would be meaningful for you. Please also add why you feel you need a part scholarship. All information will be in confidence.

** Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, please contact Sue Andersen directly sueandersendance@gmail.com

Health and safety:

We want you, Douglas, producer, crew and the workshop participants to feel as safe as possible during the weekend together. Please support the workshop community by not attending the workshop if you have any signs of cold, flu, covid or any other contagious health issues or if you have been in regular close contact with someone who has.

Please notify Sue if you have any mental health concerns.

NB By booking this workshop you agree to sign a Liability Waiver form.

Bio:

Douglas is a leader, husband, and father. He has been involved with the wellness movement for over 20 years. His professional passion is aligning impactful projects with like-minded individuals, supporting them in creating lasting teams that become global ambassadors for the future.

Douglas has been a conscious movement facilitator for over 15 years. He is a certified 5Rhythms® teacher. Douglas currently serves as the founder & CEO of the Weaving Waters Collective; an organisation dedicated to creating healing and reconciliation centers for all sentient beings.

Personally, his greatest passion and inspiration is his love for his family and time spent in pure nature. An avid surfer, diver, forager and play-date for his young daughter, Douglas is at home in the streets of NYC and equally so between his current home-bases of Big Sur, California and Aotearoa.

Urban Waves 5Rhythms with Sue Andersen is thrilled to produce Douglas Drummond

** Please note a Liability Waiver form will be required to be agreed to and signed.

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