Workshop: The Liberation of Being
Building Capacity for Personal and Collective Transformation A special Plan to Thrive event with visiting US practitioners Sage Hayes and Claudia Horwitz. The intersection of activism, liberation and embodiment is a doorway which invites us to move closer to ourselves...
Workshop: Nature Connection
Join us for the first Wellbeing Workshop of 2018! Get in touch with yourself and your surroundings to help ground you for the year ahead. This explorative workshop provides participants with an opportunity to connect with themselves and nature. When: Sunday 25...
Collective Care
Want to explore the intersections between self-care, personal agency and collaborative action - with a dose of art? Facilitated by Kate Davis and Hannan Jones, Collective Care is a public art project that offers relief from the onslaught of headlines, and invites...
Workshop: Music in Activism
Join us for a fabulous fun workshop followed by a celebration of Plan to Thrive's first year of events! Thursday 30 November Workshop 6:30-8pm Celebration 8-9pm Friends of the Earth, 312 Smith Street, Collingwood Tickets on TryBooking Invite your mates on Facebook We...
Consciousness Raising
Groups of women coming together face to face to share their experiences, be truly heard and take action together has always been incredibly powerful. We're in the midst of a moment around sexual harassment and sexual violence more broadly - a time when...
Workshop: Introduction to the Art of Zen Shiatsu
Presented by Community Shiatsu Co-operative 2-5pm, Sunday 8 October Save the Children meeting rooms, 33 Lincoln Square South, Carlton In Japanese the word "Shi" means Finger and "Atsu" means Pressure. Zen shiatsu is a traditional healing technique in which pressure is...
Ideas for Embodied Activism
Sage Hayes recently presented a workshop on Embodied Activism hosted by Plan to Thrive. It was a powerful session that connected us with our own bodily wisdom and deep resources. Sage provided these notes, a work in progress. Practicing presence is key. Cultivate...
Workshop: Embodied Activism
Sunday 17 September 1-5pm Save the Children Australia 33 Lincoln Square South, Carlton A special additional Plan to Thrive event this September with Sage Hayes, visiting US activist, somatics practitioner and teacher of embodied liberation. Whether you're organizing a...
Workshop: Music in Activism
New time: Thursday 30 November, 6-8:30pm Save the Children, 33 Lincoln Sq South, Carlton We can sing longer than we can yell! In this workshop we’ll play some, sing some, yell some and dance some. Using music, humour and movement to revitalise our thought patterns and...
Review: Woodcut footprints
Melbourne activists attended the PTT August Wellbeing Workshop on woodcut printmaking last Sunday. The workshop was facilitated by UB and took place at Cromwell Studios in Collingwood. Woodcut printmaking technique allows the maker to carve a relief design into a wood...
Fighting for my body
Tess Corkish shares her experience living with a chronic health condition. It’s hard enough fighting for a safe climate without having to fight your own body at the same time! I’ve been involved in climate activism since 2009 but I’ve had a longer battle with...
Workshop: Art and Activism – Woodcut Foot Prints
This month we're inviting all types of change makers to participate in a workshop at the intersection of art and activism: a skill share on making woodcut prints. Woodcut is a simple, cheap and fun printmaking technique. It has a long history of being used by...
Living as a social change activist
When I stopped eating animals at the start of 1994 I had no idea a simple New Year’s resolution was going to change my life in such a huge way. The act of deciding to stop eating meat made me a social change activist overnight. Decades on I now find myself running one...
Review: Holistic Health Session 1 – Shiatsu and the Kidney/Bladder Meridian
On Sunday 9 July Melbourne activists came together for a workshop on how to take care of our health and boost immunity during the winter months. Armelle, Christine and Lucy from Thornbury-based Community Shiatsu Cooperative (Co-Shi-Co) led a session on Shiatsu and the...
Activist Stories: Matt
Matt was interviewed by Laura Gilmartin after completing the workshop Avoiding Burnout with Theo Kitchener in April 2017. Matt Wicking is a musician and facilitator who supports groups making positive, progressive change. He is a singer-songwriter with Melbourne band...