Flow Forest Therapy

16/07/2025

During winter & the wurrundjeri season of waring, the sun sits low in the sky, nights are long & the seeds of the plants lie dormant in the ground. At this time, we foster hope for the continuation of all the tiny seeds, including those lying dormant within us.

Our hopes come together, by symbolically placing a nature find at the centre of our circle. As each of us carefully co-constructs, I’m reminded of birds building their nests, with twigs, feathers, leaves & mud, bonding & strengthening their home. So too, our sincere intention brings us home.

15/07/2025

Come closer.
Follow the fruity air down.
Down till your palms touch the ground.
Feel the earth on your skin.
Breathe it all in.
We are a part of the web that surrounds.

🍄 🍂 🍄 🍂 🍄 🍂 🍄 🍂

07/07/2025

“What lives in that hole?” I’ve been asked many times. This one is a cicada. Sometimes it’s a land yabby or something else 🌿

03/07/2025

Wow! This feels like another life time. 🎭 ❤️ 🌳

For many years, I followed my passion of making theatre & circus with people with individual learning needs, on the autism spectrum & who experience mental health conditions. It was a love that turned into a vocation, a drive to play & support expression of the voices of marginalised people. During this time, I became aware of the focus on vocation & less on how creativity may support self expression in our everyday lives. I retrained in Creative Arts Therapy & eventually Forest Therapy. I now work with people creatively & therapeutically in the wild, more than human world.

How extraordinary & diverse is life. I am blessed to meet & work with many wonderful people, creatures, plants, insects, seasons, cultures & lands.

With gratitude 🐨🍃🦋🍄🎭🌊😊

Image 1 Ignition Theatre students & myself on the front page of the Australian Education Union News with an inside story.

Image 2 Guiding Weave Movement Theatre through the Edgars Creek Wetlands.

Weave Movement Theatre
Melbourne Polytechnic

29/06/2025

To come home to nature, I may guide you to map your experience of light, shadow, movement & sound, as
a ‘sensory snapshot’. Here you may find yourself following a thread of small moments, while in relationship & part of something much bigger.
In this image an intention to move towards open space, while staying grounded was revealed. “Balance in asymmetry.”

Shared with permission AF

24/06/2025

She dances the shape of air
Holds the frail
Calms the wind.
Warm wise wizen
Gum of River Red.

🌳🍂🦘 🍂🌳

18/06/2025

Today I joined thousands to Walk for Truth. It marked the end of the first truth telling commission but not the last across this country. They now have the truth, let’s get the treaty done!

16/06/2025

So this is what the cormorants are doing when they dive under the water 💦

04/06/2025

Celebrate the culmination of Victoria’s first formal truth telling inquiry led by first peoples. All welcome ❤️ 💛 🖤

Join us to celebrate the culmination of Victoria's first formal truth-telling inquiry led by First Peoples. All welcome.

03/06/2025

What’s it like to be in your body today? You may like to give yourself a moment to just pause & notice any sensations & the weight of your body supported by the ground below. If there are any intense sensations, you may like to give your attention to a neutral sensation to rest into.

With gratitude
🍃 🙏 🍃

01/06/2025

Ready to bring these woven beginnings to life. The group begins by receiving a starting circle & then we sit together weaving grasses with our hands in rhythmic repetition. Through this process, the basket & ourselves become an embodied form.

The first basket is always special & unique. It can never be repeated. It is a coming together of wild grasses & wild minds as flow begins to emerge. I look forward to seeing what they become.

29/05/2025

Becoming part of the landscape, as the landscape emerges into life. Can you see what we see?

🌳🍂🦘 🍂🌳