What We Do
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs is people who have come more alive.”
– Howard Thurman, civil rights leader and mentor to Martin Luther King Jnr.
Coming to Life generates the groundwork needed to navigate the interwoven challenges of our time with aliveness, intelligence and a sense of joy.
We facilitate bespoke and lasting experiences that, like hands cracking into soil before planting a seedling, create space for new connections and possibilities to emerge.
We do this in ways you probably have not experienced before – “other-wise” ways.
Why?
Because taking the same steps, in similar ways = same and similar results
Different ways = fresh possibilities
Drawing on our Five Elements, our team of experienced facilitators guide you through a range of: somatic practices, embodied movement, nature connection and immersion, acknowledging Country and decolonising practices.
Our experiences (workshops) can be tailored to enhance an organisation’s existing retreat, team day, event, workshop or meeting. This might be a transformative opening (activation of an existing event), or we can design and facilitate the whole arc of your event.
Our work is designed to prepare the soil so that your work is more connected, joyful, and alive. We do this through design and facilitating a variety of offerings. We are able to be responsive and meet your specific needs.
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At the start of events, retreats, gatherings and workshops. Begin your group meet up in a uniquely different way that will lay the groundwork for you having refreshing and nuanced conversations
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You’ll welcome the nourishment, connection and fresh vantage points and perspectives you will gather and be able to integrate into your endeavours going forth
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Guidance through a current challenge you are navigating - we’ll help you uncover perspectives and insights that you may not have considered to support your situation
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Bringing our Five Core Elements to life in immersive, longer form and transformative experiences
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Learn about decolonising and how to practice - led by Yin Paradies (as a part of a Coming To Life experience)
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Let’s talk!
Our Offerings
Our Five Core Elements
Each offering is bespoke, Earth-centred and somatic, and incorporates our five core elements.
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Give people an opportunity to feel their feet firmly on, and as a part of, the ground, breathe, genuinely acknowledge Country, experience our deep interconnectivity and feel that they belong.
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Genuinely pause and expand our awareness. Rather than being on the treadmill, allow space to emerge in our minds and bodies so that fresh information we receive can actually enter and land.
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Engage in practices that enable seeing, feeling, being and thinking in other ways. Seeing the ordinary, the world we’re a part of, with awe, love and reverence. What if we said “yes” to a softening, surrendering, letting go, a cracking open of ourselves, that invites metamorphosis where we can feel, sense, dwell and inhabit more of the world as it is?
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Cultivate awareness of the patterns, assumptions and behaviours inherent within modern culture – those forged by the very systems that have created the challenges we swim in that budded a long time ago. Shed these ways before we act.
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Sourced from the groundwork and our deeper nature, gain clarity on how to be and experiment with responses that could bud patterns that nourish life.
Bring us in to provide a wholesome foundation – an alive fertile place – for your gatherings, that allow welcome possibilities to sprout and shoot. We work with you to help you ask essential questions, to come to life and find new ways to help your important work.
Our experiences will meet your group where you’re at and be co-created with you. They can be one-off, designed as a series or retreat, or tailored to your particular event.
Our in-person experiences can happen in the beautiful bush and beaches of Kurkala Dorla (Anglesea), on a mountain-top (Yarra Valley), by creeks and the river in Naarm (Melbourne), around the salty sea, pandanus and mangroves of Garramilla (Darwin) and in and around nipaluna (Hobart). We can hold rich, memorable online experiences too.