Re-enchantment and Purpose

An embodied inquiry in a time of unravelling

Thursday 28th January 6pm to Sunday 31st January 4pm

Four Mile Creek, East Coast Tasmania

In a world that seems to be unravelling, many of us simultaneously feel grief, anger, numbness and sadness, with a quiet call to action. This can feel like an internal paradox; weighted with heartbreak, yet equally longing to act in service of the planet we love.

We draw on the fluid, somatic wisdom of Continuum and the ecological and spiritual framework of The Work That Reconnects. We enter the new year with the weight of what we carry, holding collective loss, uncertainty and change. In this work we co-weave the spirals of InBody wild wisdom and collective rituals, to deepen our listening within.

This workshop invites us into an embodied exploration of the question: What is ours to do? Rather than seeking answers through analysis alone, we turn toward the living intelligence of the body, embedded within land and ocean. Continuum teaches us that wisdom does not live in abstraction, but in breath, sound, and subtle movement—within the tides and textures of our own being. Through deep listening we reconnect with what has always been here, our belonging in the web of life. We hear our voice beneath the noise.

Guided by the spiral of The Work That Reconnects, we will co-create space to express our gratitude, to mourn our grief we carry for a world in crisis, and feel how that grief is held and metabolized in the body. When grief is welcomed and witnessed somatically, it becomes a threshold rather than an impasse—a portal to renewed connection, creativity, and purpose. To build embodied community.

From this embodied ground, we cultivate restoration, renewal and re-enchantment - the quiet, resilient impulse of life to re-form and re-imagine itself. Through Continuum practices and collective reflection, we listen for what is emerging, not as a mandate to fix the world but as an invitation to participate in its renewal from the inside out.

This workshop offers:

● Somatic practices rooted in Continuum to access embodied knowing

● Ritual and reflection inspired by The Work That Reconnects

● Space to mourn, move and metabolise collective and personal grief

● A lived experience of interconnectedness with the wider web of life

● An embodied inquiry into what is truly ours to do in this time of unravelling

This is an invitation to slow down, to listen beneath words, and remember that even in times of breakdown, life is always practicing how to begin again.

Logistics

This is a catered residential workshop, with only BYO camping accommodation.

Arrive Thursday afternoon to set up your camp, with dinner and an opening circle.

The venue is at Four Mile Creek, halfway between Bicheno and St Helens, on the East Coast of Tasmania.

(There is a studio on the land, with a king-sized bed, that can be rented for an additional cost of $400 for three nights).

Co-facilitators

Amber Elizabeth Gray moves from a diverse landscape of experience. Yoga, sacred dance, dance/movement therapy, bodywork, and Continuum are all somatic languages she listens to and creates from. She has worked with survivors of extreme interpersonal violence since 1999 and these are her teachers of movement as liberation. As an educator, clinician, mentor and changemaker, she incites resilient embodied revolution so that we can liberate ourselves from our own constraints. She is the author of the recently published book Polyvagal-informed Restorative Movement Psychotherapy: Roots. Rhythm. Reciprocity.

Shar Molloy first trained with Joanna Macy and John Seed in 2001 and has applied the wisdom of Deep Ecology and the Work that Reconnects in her roles as an environmental campaigner. Shar is also a trained facilitator and coach of Nonviolent Communication and an Associate of Nonviolent Global Liberation (NGL). Her purpose is to support others to experience themselves as part of the web of life and play a part in the Great Turning.

If you would like to discuss this offering, please call Shar on 0488 112 350

Contact the host of Re-enchantment and Purpose - An embodied inquiry in a time of unravelling

There were 0 errors found in the information you submitted: