Alive as Earth
Summer Gathering for Positive Change
Tui Treefield, Wainui, GOLDEN BAY
31 January - 2 February 2025
Alive as Earth
* Build community *
* Relax, play and learn together *
* Empower your work for the Earth *
The Tui Treefield invites all peaceful Earth warriors, healers, fools, magicians, leaders and lovers to gather and share in the spirit of Being Alive as Earth.
We will co-create a spacious, resourcing journey of building community, playing and learning together, and affirming our empowerment to bring healing to our world.
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On offer will be a selection of inspiring, experiential workshops with professional facilitators, time for quality connection, and nature camping. We will provide shared vegetarian dinners. BYO B-fast & lunch.
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Workshops all explore the theme of Alive as Earth using a variety of methods and modalities, including...
* Work That Reconnects & Deep Ecology
* Conscious Dance & Breathwork
* Story Telling & Fooling
* Nature Connection & Nature Art
Arrival & Program
On Friday, you may arrive and set up camp from 10am. Please plan to arrive by 11am latest.
We will gather together at 12noon to welcome everyone and begin building our community.
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DAILY SCHEDULE (example)
7-8am Morning Wellbeing (co-created by our community)
8.30am BYO Picnic Breakfast
9.15am Morning Circle (Community Building & Check-in)
10am-12.30pm WORKSHOP PROGRAM
1pm BYO Picnic Lunch
2-5.30pm Open Space
5.30pm Community Connect & Workshop Announcements
6pm Shared Vegetarian Dinner at the Treehouse (provided)
7.30pm EVENING PROGRAM
Logistics
This gathering is limited to 30 adults (21years & over).
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COST:
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Full ticket including sponsorship for subsidized tickets: $270
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Full Ticket: $230
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Early Bird Full Ticket (book by 10 January) $190
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Student/65+yrs/subsidized: $200
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Early Bird Student/65+yrs/subsidized (book by 10 January) $160
To reserve your spot book in with a $50 deposit via the link below.​
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Your ticket covers...
admin & organisation, 3 experiential workshops, 2 communal dinners, 2 evening programs, 2 nights camping accommodation and a whole weekend of being in community of like-minds in a stunning natural setting right be the beautiful Wainui Beach and Abel Tasman NP.
​Limited accommodation in 4-share cottages available at $30 extra.
Note: This is a conscious community gathering. No alcohol, no drugs, no dogs.
The spirit of our time together is co-creative: We invite you to contribute and co-create by helping out with practicalities in the kitchen and on the event site, as well as bringing your own topics and offerings to share with others during the Open Space in the afternoons.
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Refunds... are available up to 7 days prior the event.
Your Hosts & Facilitators
Inna Alex
Col Minney
Damiet & Mikis
Experiential Workshops
Each day there are 2 workshops to choose from. These are 2.5-3hrs immersions, offered by experienced facilitators inspired to share their personal tools for empowerment with you.
Specific workshop offerings are yet to be confirmed. Below you can see examples of previous workshop offerings.
Spiral Journey - Work That Reconnects
with Inna Alex
Work That Reconnects supports us to deepen our connection with and care for ourselves, each other and all life. Awake to our interconnectedness with the web of life, we are empowered to participate in the Great Turning.
The work offers a variety of practices, including guided meditation, partner and group exercises, movement, poetry and song. We will use the Work That Reconnects to build community and experience our interconnectedness throughout the event.
Conscious Dance in your aliveness
with Damiët Loor
A guided dance of earthy music to get you moving and dancing your own unique dance.
This is not about you dancing your familiar moves or dancing for an audience. This is about letting different parts of you and your body lead and move you. Connecting with yourself first and from this connection, connecting with others.
A language of feeling and connection, through movement and expression.
the Fool's Journey
with Col Minney
The aim of this workshop is to provide participants with direct experience and expression of the many masks that we all have and share. Masks being all aspects of our character and personality that arise in the multitude of everyday interactions we encounter. You will leave with knowing yourselves at a deeper and alternative level and understand how to ‘play’ with them in awareness and not be consumed with them. You will also have the opportunity to play with others and fool meets fool….bring curiosity courage and the desire to fail magnificently.
Nature Art
with Mikis van Geffen
Nature art offers an opportunity to integrate ‘culture’ and ‘nature’, celebrating and honouring those life resources that sustain us, reminding us of the temporary nature of our shared existence. In this workshop we connect with nature through art, using material found in nature. Using our deep senses, we will be reorganising shape, colour and pattern to ‘re-create’ to encourage conversations that reconsider our cultural practices and its impact on nature. The artworks will respect where we live in and are part of ourselves and are non-destructive, non-invasive and temporarily installations.
The Council of All Beings
with Inna Alex
The Council of All Beings is a communal ritual in which participants step aside from their human identity and speak on behalf of another life-form. The ritual serves to help us acknowledge and give voice to the suffering of our world. It also serves, in equal measure, to help us experience the beauty and power of our interconnectedness with all life and gather wisdom for how to move forward.
Letting the EARTH bREATHe you
with Damiët Loor
Breath is prana and prana is life force. Breathing is bringing life force into existence. Breathing in and out deeply brings more depth in experiencing life. You will be guided to go on a journey to expand your consciousness and inner wisdom through circular breathing.
This breathwork session will offer you an experience of becoming Alive as Earth as this is the most natural part of you.
Deep Time Walk
Step Back in Time
Deep Time Walk is a transformative journey through 4.6 billion years of Earth history via a 4.6km guided walk. It is an invitation to view the world differently, encouraging positive action and advocacy for a regenerative Earth.
