“The times are urgent …
Let us slow down.”
Bayo Akomolafe
We also acknowledge that wherever we are from, we belong to this Earth. That our ancestors in deep time were in a close and animate relationship with the rest of life, and that it has been this way for 98% of the time that human life has existed on Earth.
We Acknowledge
Importantly, wherever Coming to Life holds space across this continent and islands, we acknowledge that we do so in First Peoples’ Country. That First Peoples are in a profound and loving relationship with Country, and have been so into deep time. We acknowledge the wrongs and deep hurt across time-places within Country, that Country is family, and that Country was stolen and never ceded. We are deeply sorry.
Through our offerings, we aim to honour the immense wisdom, strengths and resiliences of First Nations people, and of Country. We are committed to deep listening. Through our work, we are called to continually guide ourselves and others away from the patterns and values that perpetuate colonisation, and towards respect, care, kinship and autonomy.
We nurture connection
We believe that when people are allowed to slow down, engage their senses, and connect to the natural world and to themselves, they shift into ways of being that support the wider web of life, and humans within it, to thrive.
We curate lasting experiences
Coming to Life creates enlivening and lasting group experiences for purpose-driven organisations and individuals to uncover paradigm-shifting clarity on how to be and what to do as they tend to what they care for.
We pause. We slow down. We drop in.
We help you tend to the crises of our time and connect with what you care about.
We hold space in nature
We hold space, usually in nature – amongst birdsong, feeling the fresh breeze blow through leaves and across your skin – as a way of returning to something richer and vaster than ourselves.
Our Offerings
Our specialities are to design and hold
Openings or ‘activations’ of meetings and special events in (approx 30 min - 2.5 hours)
Group connection (and/or reorientation) time through immersions in nature (2.5 or more hours)
Transformative dialogues on topics that you would appreciate support with and educational workshops on decolonising
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What we do
We design and facilitate experiences to help you shed business-as-usual and prepare you to be more receptive to the abundance of other possibilities, aligned with what our time asks of us.
We support this process through nature-based and somatic practices that foster a more felt sense of embodiment and nervous system safety.
A gift that follows is a refreshing space opens up for you to enjoy uncovering and connecting with what's needed for you to carve the difference you're seeking.
How we work
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Why we offer our experiences
We are all being asked to shift our orientation and evolve, so that embracing and entering a new chapter can happen with flow.
Coming to Life opens – and holds open – a window for you to experience something other so that we can tend to the systemic challenges we face in ways that our time asks of us.
Our People
We care and we are circuit breakers - Supportive and highly experienced group experience and process designers, facilitators, decolonising educators, somatic meditators and movement guides and art makers.
What People Are Saying
“TBC.”
— Lisa Croxford and Ang Rutter Leadership Victoria
“TBC.”
— Sam Green City of Yarra
“TBC.”
— Lisa Whiston Climate For Change
“TBC.”
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