WellSpring Counselling Groupwork and Supervision

29/09/2024

29/06/2024

Learning To Stay:

03/06/2024

https://womensummit.pocketproject.org

This summit focuses on leaders drawing on qualities culturally identified with feminine energy who restore meaning to the ethic of global collective care and healing.

30/06/2023

This retreat has been postponed til either the last weekend of October, or first weeks of November.

02/05/2022

30/08/2021

Bearing Witness
~Laura Weaver~
Sometimes we are asked to stop and bear witness:
this, the elephants say to me in dreams
as they thunder through the passageways
of my heart, disappearing
into a blaze of stars. On the edge
of the 6th mass extinction, with species
vanishing before our eyes, we’d be a people
gone mad, if we did not grieve.

This unmet grief,
an elder tells me, is the root
of the root of the collective illness
that got us here. His people
stay current with their grief—
they see their tears as medicine—
and grief a kind of generous willingness
to simply see, to look loss in the eye,
to hold tenderly what is precious,
to let the rains of the heart fall.

In this way, they do not pass this weight on
in invisible mailbags for the next generation
to carry. In this way, the grief doesn’t build
and build like sets of waves, until,
at some point down the line—
it simply becomes an unbearable ocean.

We are so hungry when we are fleeing
our grief, when we are doing all
we can to distract ourselves
from the crushing heft of the unread
letters of our ancestors.
Hear us, they call. Hear us.

In my dreams, the elephants stampede
in herds, trumpeting, shaking the earth.
It is a kind of grand finale, a last parade
of their exquisite beauty. See us, they say.
We may not pass this way again.

What if our grief, given as a sacred offering,
is a blessing not a curse?
What if our grief, not hidden away in corners,
becomes a kind of communion where we shine?
What if our grief becomes a liberation song
that returns us to our innocence?
What if our fierce hearts
could simply bear witness?

30/07/2021

Beyond Climate Grief
A journey of love, snow, fire and an enchanted beer can

I don’t know why I thought snow would be magically immune to climate change. But logically, can you think of anything more vulnerable to rising temperatures than snow?

06/06/2021

Based in the work of Francis Weller this workshop is being offered in July. If you do not know of his work please take a look at the interview with Francis below.

06/06/2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV52WWU17Vo&t=1315s

Having done a few online interviews with Francis (with admittedly mediocre video results) I am so thankful that the video content producers at the YouTube ch...

11/05/2021

If you are interested in attending A Grief Tending Ritual this coming weekend please let me know. A few places still available
0421410040.

“Grief is subversive, undermining the quiet agreement to behave and be in control of our emotions. It is an act of protest that declares our refusal to live numb and small. There is something feral about grief, something essentially outside the ordained and sanctioned behaviors of our culture. Because of that, grief is necessary to the vitality of the soul. Contrary to our fears, grief is suffused with life-force.... It is not a state of deadness or emotional flatness. Grief is alive, wild, untamed and cannot be domesticated. It resists the demands to remain passive and still. We move in jangled, unsettled, and riotous ways when grief takes hold of us. It is truly an emotion that rises from the soul.”

― Francis Weller

15/04/2021

Found on Google from livingcompass.org

04/03/2021