Growing up in regional NSW and going on to find home with the Ocean, I’ve experienced a welcome upending of worldview upon seriously engaging in animist & ancestral relationship. It’s been these practices that have brought hope into me, and so, after religiously attending SBE (IG: @singingblackbird_enterprises) gatherings, I am deeply grateful to be a part of this exploration of re-learning kinship & earth-based culture. SBE believes this work is a potent antidote to the deep soul sickness that drives the overculture of individualism & capitalism, and that together we must face the discomfort of engaging in this work on Lands suffering so deeply from colonisation.
I’m particularly passionate about the necessity of collective grief ritual, song & dance, having started the regular dance-based gathering Human Behaviour two years ago, as well as facilitating two iterations of Folk Circle, an experiment in group sharing & sounding. I’m currently learning in an online caoineadh (keening) course on traditional Gaelic ritualised mourning, and nurturing a passion for teachings of Indigenous / traditional memory systems alongside this.