Journeys in Wildness
Re-establish your place in the web of life; understand, embrace and act from your wild nature.
Join in this 3 day/4 night workshop exploring what we can become outside the captive domestication of modern societies that are destroying our ecosystems and our capabilities to be fully alive. Moora Moora’s powerful naturescape on top of Mt Toolebewong and our nearly 50 years of living in an intentional community provides a powerful context for this event.
Journeys in Wildness will encourage participants to live and act as part of the earth community and to care for themselves, all other beings and our planet. The concept of service to the world in ways that nourish and replenish, rather than those which drain energy, will also be a key component of the event, which will also include a night sleeping solo in the forest.
Bath your senses in the forest, partner in regeneration, be embodied, connected, fully conscious, alive and aware.
For ticket information visit: events.humanitix.com/journeys-in-wildness
Journeys in Wildness – Program
JOURNEYS IN WILDNESS FACILITATORS
PETER COCK
Living in community for over 45 years and working with the dialectic between leadership and participatory democracy continues to be a wellspring for life learning for Peter Cock. Throughout his journey he has endeavoured to find the courage to advocate for tough wise decisions, alone if necessary. He has worked for the group"‘s collective interest, while recognising the constructive roles of different views. Peter’s work at Monash and at Oases included teaching ecopsychology, conserver society, entering the ecological world, warriorship, social and sacred ecology. Working in an academic role, with strong creative thinking and verbal skills, while struggling with dyslexia, equipped Peter to see limitations as an encouragement to cooperate. His approach to facilitated learning is focused on designing processes for direct experience and reflection within country and with a small human group of participants. Peter acknowledged the roots of his wisdom come from a father who was an intuitive, natural healer and worker of the land and a mother who nourished others personal and spiritual transformation in the growth centre she founded. As a founder of Moora Moora, Peter recognises that his mountain top home aids & big picture; seeing- the whole, the deep, the long term.
YIN PARADIES
Yin Paradies is an Aboriginal-Asian-Anglo Australian of the Wakaya people from the Gulf of Carpentaria. He is a Professor of Race Relations at Deakin University where he conducts research on the health, social and economic effects of racism as well as anti-racism theory, policy and practice across diverse settings, including online, in workplaces, schools, universities, housing, the arts, and health. He also teaches and undertakes research in Indigenous knowledges.
Yin is a climate and ecological activist who is deeply committed to understanding and interrupting the devastating impacts of modernity, including the need to relinquish debt, property, institutions and nation states.
He instead seeks meaningful mutuality of becoming and embodied kinship with all life through transformed ways of knowing, being and doing that are grounded in wisdom, humility, respect and generosity. He is a current Moora Moora resident, who moved to the mountain in 2020 in order to be in community, cultivate a closer connection to Country, and engage in an ethos of down-shifted collective sufficiency, voluntary simplicity, frugality, direct democracy and radical localisation.
SEAN O’SULLIVAN
Sean O’Sullivan is an elder of Moora Moora, who cares deeply about the cooperative community’s moral compass and how decisions are made. Sean’s employment experience includes roles as Lecturer in Information Technology at Swinburne University, Mathematics and Information Technology teacher at RMIT and Outer Eastern College of TAFE and Technical Assistant at the Government Aircraft Factory.
Sean holds an Associate Diploma in Aeronautical Engineering from RMIT, a Bachelor of Arts from Latrobe University and a Diploma of Education from SCV Hawthorn. A long term resident of Moora Moora, Sean is widely read in the areas of Science, Contemporary Politics and Environmental Politics (including climate change, deep ecology, ecologically spirituality).
GABRIELLE HIGGINS
Gabrielle is a poet, dancer and community development worker, with a focus on mind-body connection and creativity as mindfulness methodologies. Her work experience includes over a decade as a yoga and dance instructor in Boston and Sydney and community engagement facilitation. Her work is supported academically by a Masters of Strategic Public Relations from the University of Sydney, with a focus on deliberative democracy. Completing the coursework for the Advanced Diploma of Group Facilitation at Groupwork Institute enhanced her skills in group process.
Her creative and embodied work is supported by a Bachelor of Arts in Performance Studies from Victoria University, where she choreographed pieces examining social issues in an embodied way. She is a poet with a focus on eco-poetics. Gabrielle is a current Moora Moora member, who moved to the mountain in 2018 with the intention to live more closely with the forest and in the belief that, while we can create as individuals, we can create more in community.
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