This is an invitation to explore the issues of the proposed cable car on kunanyi in a novel way - using our bodies and movement to sense deeper into the relationships involved.

We will guide people through practices that help deepen our connection to our bodies, the present, each other, and the larger social and eco fields. These practices move us beyond our chattering mind into the field of generative possibility.

When we are deeply connected we are able to represent what is stuck and hurt. In this deliberate pause we can invite in the authentic gesture or shift that offers an emergent future. Reflecting on this shift - our felt sense and what we observe - leads to novel insights about ways forward.

We will be creating a safe and supportive space where we can hold space for each other, and enable vulnerability.

We will be drawing on Joanna Macy’s The Work that Reconnects, Otto Sharmer’s Presencing UTheory and Arawana Hayashi’s Social Presencing Theatre and other embodied practices.

Our intention is to use the insights of the exploration to write a different sort of submission for the Hobart City Council.

We are looking forward to working with a group of co-explorers in something experimental, surprising and inspiring!

Want to find out more? Phone Sue Stack on 0488 979 689

To participate:

Wear comfortable clothes
Bring an afternoon snack and water
No dancing or theater experience required - just enough mobility to take on different postures within your body’s limits.
Be curious and open.

FACILITATORS:
Dr Sue Stack is an artist and educator experienced in holistic and transformative learning. Her passion is creating learning environments that enable people to access their deeper wisdom through embodied experiences, inviting empathy, new ways of seeing and authentic expression. For the last decade she has facilitated Embodied Wisdom and Play - a joyous improvisational practice that enables personal and collective storytelling emerging from the body that can offer powerful healing for our times.

Moran Wiesel is a musician, facilitator, intersectional activist, and wordsmith. They offer earth-connection and collective healing workshops, and with their harp and flute offer therapeutic sound baths around nipaluna/Hobart. Moran also plays with several ensembles sharing the joy of earth-based connection. They are passionate about the power of words and ideas in tangling our relationship with Earth, and performs earth-inspired spoken word poetry, as well as coordinating Friends of the Earth's national magazine, Chain Reaction. They are an Ecotherapist, and continue to learn from different embodied lineages of earth-based listening and facilitation.

Liz Downes has trained and worked for several years as a facilitator of the Work that Reconnects and Deep Ecology processes developed by Joanna Macy and John Seed. She has a background in psychology, community development, environmental activism and campaigning, with deep interests in facilitating the human reconnection to the living spirit of our natural world. In these spaces, she has applied the principles of the Work that Reconnects to inspire and motivate those on the frontlines and help people be able to navigate difficult emotions in challenging times.