What We Do
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.
Our Offerings
We create enlivening and lasting 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.
Each offering is bespoke, nature based, somatic (supports and calms nervous systems), and incorporates our five core elements.
We hold in-person experiences outdoors, in the bush, in and around the buildings where you meet and online too.
Our in-person experiences can happen in the beautiful bush and beaches of Kurkala Dorla (Anglesea), on a mountain-top (Yarra Valley), in Naarm (Melbourne), around the salty sea, pandanus and mangroves of Garramilla (Darwin) and in and around nipaluna (Hobart).
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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!
Bring us in to support your group to have
Retreats, team days, special event, workshops or meetings
Group (re)connection and/or rejuventation
Dialogues
Transitions and critical or special moments
Reorientation, pause and reflection, taking stock or re-alignment of your role, and how to be, in our paradoxical and unique time
How we work
We listen to what your organisation is after and then our team of skilled facilitators co-designs and guides your group through an experience infused with your pick of nature connection, acknowledging Country, somatic (nervous system settling), art making and decolonising practices.
We work in ways that you might have not experienced before. We call them “other-wise” ways. Why? Because taking the same steps, in similar ways = same and similar results. Different ways = fresh possibilities.
Our experiences will meet your group where you’re at and can be co-created with you as a one-off or a series.
We design and facilitate group gatherings in skillful, ‘other-wise’ and transformative ways
Opening (‘activation’) of a gathering* to set you up well for what’s to come
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1. Of course if you have someone doing a Welcome to Country we would respectfully follow them.
2. We can hold the opening or another special part of the gathering.
Whole experience (beginning to end)
Opening (‘activation’)
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We design and facilitate group gatherings in skillful, ‘other-wise’ and transformative ways
Opening (‘activation’) of a gathering* to set you up well for what’s to come
*
1. Of course if you have someone doing a Welcome to Country we would respectfully follow them.
2. We can hold the opening or another special part of the gathering.
Whole experience (beginning to end)
Solely the opening (‘activation’)
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or
You would like your group to have a special experience together.
One that is relevant to the times that we’re in and will enliven and support the actions you’re taking to care for our shared home, and possibly shape-shift them too.
You’re planning on creating a retreat, team day, special event, workshop, dialogue, meeting, conference for you we can design and hold …
We design and facilitate group gatherings in skillful and transformative ways
Openings (the ‘activation’) of a gathering to set you up well for what’s to come
Another part of the gathering
Whole experience (beginning to end)
A one off event or a series
Our five Core Elements
Using our five Core Elements we invite people to attend to the quality of how we relate, be, perceive, and then act.
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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.
OUR PROMISE TO YOU
We provide you with a wholesome foundation – an alive fertile place – for your gatherings, that allows 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.