01/10/2024
Collective Being’s early vision as ‘State of Being’ (the organisation we were first known as) was to ‘broaden access to yoga and mindfulness’. In the 7 years since, we have learnt so much more about what access means, and about the scope of somatic approaches that support people to be well.
Together, the Collective Being team has learnt from each other’s lived experiences, and we have invited others with lived experience to share with us, to teach us, and to guide us to be more accessible to more people.
The Collective Being team have trained together, reflected together, and collectively crafted an approach to what we do.
Together, we have worked with and learned from over 9,000 participants and 47 different service providers ❤️
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Some words from Jo, a Founder and the Director of Collective Being:
“As someone who burnt out in multiple previous roles in the social justice sector, and experienced dissonance between the goals of the work and internal cultures of organisations, it is the approach to our work at Collective Being that brings me the most purpose and joy. It is the deep listening, the always-learning, the commitment to embodying our values, and the collective push back against a system that exhausts, ignores and excludes so many. For us, it’s not just what we do, but how we do it, that matters.”
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We would like to thank all who joined us on Sunday for a beautiful afternoon of sound, soma and story.
A special thanks to the amazing and for your talent, for the space, and for catering and for capturing the event in images ✨
