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It was perhaps twenty years ago that I took this photo.  Alone at Kur-ring-gai Chase National Park, sunning my body after a dip in a clear shallow pool, I suddenly had a profound experience of being seen by an animate world. The gaze was compelling, yet not localised – I was being seen all over, […]

Recently I visited Larrakia Country, Darwin, to fulfil a dream I’ve had for awhile – to meet some of the authors of Songspirals: Sharing Women’s Wisdom of Country through Songlines. I’ve mentioned this wonderful book before, because it is a key inspiration on the work I do now: creating opportunities for people to experience deep,

An intimate, soulful and nourishing Saturday of embodiment and writing at my home in Warburton, by Birrarung, the Yarra River. Using the practices of guided meditations and stream-of-consciousness writing, we will enter into presence with the more-than-human world and bring back other — and ancient — ways of knowing. We call this co-becoming: a transformative altered

(Bunjil painting in ochre, by Sylvan, 9 years old, on stone clapstick) I stood in a small circle in the centre with the Dreaming team. Hundreds of black ducks, water rats, rainbow lorikeets and pobblebonk frogs were perched around us on the grassy clearing by the creek. Hand-made costumes clad the child performers, who were

A chapter from my PhD… A Structure of Feeling ‘Metaphor is a type of thinking and expression towards wholes as things. The word comes from the Greek ‘to carry across,’ and in metaphor one set of patterns is, as it were, carried across to another set in the mind, and in a way that safeguards

My father moved into a run-down little Victorian terrace house in Brunswick in 1978. The brass plate out the front said Villapola, and thus it has been known to the many lovely people who have lived in this share house over the decades.  Dad moved overseas in 1999, so I took over the care of

Twenty-one years ago I walked from the sea to the source of Birrarung. Twenty-one years to the day of arriving at the source of my river, I spent the anniversary in Kabi Kabi Country, Sunshine Coast, in exquisite rainforest, following a gorgeous stream, and memories and understandings flowed all through my body. So now, having

Sometimes you really want to show everybody what you’ve seen. And Elan really wanted me to put a story about him on my website. Perfect match. My nephew really loves dogs. He can’t have a dog. He tells stories of the neighbourhood dogs and how they love him (love being the favourite topic of this

Jung Society Lecture May 2021 How to begin opening such a large, complex, mysterious subject, one that also, inevitably and necessarily, touches on the vast pain of Australia’s brutal occupation of Aboriginal lands. Well, we know how to begin. Thousands of events all over the country will be beginning tonight in a similar way to

Naomi Klein, who’s written well-known tracts on climate change and the insane and psychopathic system that is capitalism, has just published another important and surprisingly beautiful book. It’s called Doppelgänger: A Trip into the Mirror World, and it investigates the political and social strangeness that covid unleashed. I read it in a whirl over the