Wisdom and Wellbeing 2026 Season 3

Create and Relate

A wisdom and wellbeing term. Ten weeks of coming back to ourselves, and to each other.

For most of human history, creativity was never an extra. Song, dance, ritual and craft were woven into how people gathered, grieved and stayed well. Somewhere along the way we filed them under entertainment, a thing we do once the real work is done. This term begins from the opposite premise: that creative participation belongs alongside food, movement and sleep as part of how wellbeing is actually made. The key word is active. It is the making, the singing, the moving and the gathering that carry the benefit, not passive consumption, and participation is exactly what this term is built around.

Underneath it runs a quieter idea. We tend to imagine the self as sealed inside the skin, reaching out to others now and then. Many wisdom traditions describe it the other way around: that we are nodes in a web, and the web is what the self is made of. To create is to take part, to come back into relationship, with material, with each other, and with the larger whole we are always already part of. Creativity and connection turn out to be the same movement seen from two sides.

That is the thread we follow over the coming weeks. Each week a different guide opens a different way in. No experience needed. No framework to believe in. Just come as you are

Week One · 22 July · Creativity and Self Development
with Cheryl Roth

Most of us are creating all the time without noticing it, in our beliefs, our habits, the way we move through a day. This term begins by turning attention to that. Creativity is not a talent some people are given and others go without. It is one of the oldest ways we have of coming back to ourselves. Week one is an invitation to pay attention to what is already happening beneath the surface, and to let the making show you something you did not know you knew.

Week Two · 29 July · Roots and Reaching
with Julia Westwood

This week we turn the making inward. Through a guided creative exploration, we look at what happens when we reflect on ourselves not in words but through the forms of the natural world. There is something in a living thing, the way it roots, holds, and reaches, that shows us back to ourselves more honestly than a mirror ever could. No artistic skill needed. Just a willingness to let an image speak for the parts of you that words tend to miss.

Week Three · 5 August · Sound and Stillness
with Em Caunt

This week we set the making down and let something work on us instead. A sound immersion is not a performance to watch. It is a bath of vibration you lie back into, where the only task is to breathe and receive. As the tones move through the room and through the body, the thinking mind loosens its grip and something older gets a chance to speak. This is a healing introspective evening, a chance to come back to yourself through the ear rather than the hand. Come as you are. You do not need to do anything at all.

Week Four · 12 August · Made Together
with Bethany Nero

This week we make with each other rather than beside each other. A shared, playful creative session where the work grows out of the room itself, passed between hands, built between people, no single author and no way to get it wrong. Something happens when we create together that never happens alone. The usual self consciousness loosens, and what emerges belongs to all of us. No experience needed. Just bring your willingness to play and see what the group makes of it.

Week Five · 19 August · A Sound Journey
with Stellar Sound

Earlier this term we lay back into sound for the first time and let it work on us. This week we return to that ground, and go further. Vanessa Fernandez and Nic Robertson of Stellar Sound bring live voice, tuning forks, gongs and shamanic sound into the room, guiding a journey designed to soften the nervous system and open the door back to creativity and to each other. No experience needed. Come as you are and let the sound do the rest.

Week Six · 26 August · Movement
with Cass Wallis

We have spent this term making with our hands and receiving through the ear. This week we work with the oldest instrument we have, the body itself. Cass Wallis of Movement Journey guides a session exploring creativity through movement, joyful, unforced, and open to everyone. There are no steps to learn and nothing to get right. Just a room, some music, and the simple permission to move the way your body wants to. Come as you are and see what wants to come through.

Week Seven · 2 September · Creativity and the Body's Ecology
with Dr Carolina Munoz

We are delighted to welcome back Dr Carolina Munoz. Last term she opened a window onto the body as something far more intelligent and interconnected than we tend to assume. This term she goes deeper, into the ecology of the body and the quiet conversation between creativity and the nervous system. What actually happens in us when we make, when we move, when we rest into sound? Why does creative participation calm the system that stress winds tight? This is an evening where the science meets the felt sense, and both turn out to be pointing at the same thing.

Week Eight · 9 September · Voice and Vibration
with Lissa Williams

Last week with Carolina we looked at why creativity settles the nervous system. This week we put it into practice, and we do it with the most personal instrument we own: the voice. Lissa Williams of Human Vibrations guides an evening of vocal activation, breathwork, sound and group singing, exploring how voice and vibration move through the body and quiet the mind. You do not need to be a singer. You just need to be willing to make a sound and feel what it does. Come as you are and let your own voice do the rest.

Week Nine · 16 September · One Act of Fun
with Trudi Ross

When was the last time you gave yourself permission to simply play? Somewhere between the responsibilities and the routines, most of us quietly forget how good it feels to laugh, be spontaneous, and connect with others without a shred of judgement. This week Trudi Ross opens a space to remember. Through theatre based games and playful interaction, we step outside the usual and rediscover the part of ourselves that never actually needed a stage. No acting, no pressure, no experience required. Come as you are. Leave a little lighter.

Week Ten · 23 September · Release and Receive
with Carolina Gonzalez

For our final session of the term, we close the way we opened: making together. Carolina Gonzalez, a mindfulness and meditation teacher from the Northern Beaches, guides a gentle arc of meditation, ritual and creative practice. We will settle the body, write down what we are ready to release and offer it to a shared water ritual at the centre of our circle, then turn toward what is quietly calling us in and bring it to life on paper with colour, words and image. No meditation or artistic skill required. Just a willingness to let go in good company, and see what becomes possible.

A note on prices and the sustainability of the program
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If you can afford more than the minimum ticket price, your generosity will contribute to the ongoing sustainability of the program. We also believe strongly that our facilitators who dedicate their lives to their crafts should be fairly compensated for their services.

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