What does Kookaburra say to wake Sun, Owl to nurture Moon?
What call is sacred enough to stir the soul & like an ever-present breeze, float our attention toward aliveness.
Welcome to Garage Peer Work
We offer Lived Experience Supervision and Peer Work explorations, along side other relational practices devoted to the co-creation of sacred space and that truly centre living experience.
Our approach empowers you to uncover alternative ways of knowing that emerge from broader and deeper ecologies, and that call forth our attention and feeling.
Attention without feeling,
I began to learn,
is only a report.
An openness — an empathy —
was necessary
if the attention was to matter.
~ Mary Oliver
The lived experience workforce needs containers, vessels that genuinely connect lived experience to practice, allowing our bodies and stories to retain their agency. We invite you to join us and open your attention to the living landscapes of embodied practice, to cultivate a practice that speaks to your soul and feeds a deeper connection to something meaningful and sacred.
When we practice these arts of vesseling, we extend an intimacy to what is moving in the soul. This happens through slow, continuous building of the vessel. Think of therapy, for example, and the ongoing repetition, hour-upon-hour, turning over the materials of psyche—images, dreams, moods, memories, fantasies, confusions, complexes, relationships—all requiring a space to be witnessed and deepened, allowing the masa confusa to slowly yield some new precious drop of insight.
~ Francis Weller
Practice is the formation of an awakened dance, a vibrant and dynamic act of reclaiming. Our hope is to co-create a vessel where being can find expression in doing again, again, again and again.
Bio
Oral traditions have shared stories since before time—stories spoken through art forms such as storytelling, song, and dance, reestablishing links to our experiences, community, culture, nature and the sacred.
These stories awaken our dreaming because they speak in living images. These living images move us, shape us, and influence our bodily experience. I am fascinated by pan-cultural oral traditions, deep ecology, animist practices, and the parallels and intersections in our work that may lead us to a deeper embodied sense of practice.
With nearly a decade of experience as a peer worker, my own lived experience and its continued unfolding have profoundly shaped my practice. My experiences delivering peer support began in the community before moving into paid roles in government and non-government mental health settings. I continue to offer peer support, facilitate group work, and provide leadership and supervision from a lived experience perspective.
Since 2019, I have been trained in Intentional Peer Support Core and, as of 2023, in Train the Trainer. I have co-facilitated several IPS Core Trainings and group co-reflections, and I have first hand experience integrating IPS into various mental health settings. IPS has significantly influenced my practice and has laid the foundation for my work with other relational and oral pan-cultural practices. Most notably "The Politics of Trauma" (in the Living Lineage of Generative Somatics and the Strozzi Institute) by Staci K. Haines, "The Mythic Body: Myth, Somatics and Animism" by Josh Schrei and my own remembering and reconnection to Culture through Wiradjuri and Celtic blood memory.
If you would like to explore working together, please contact me for a free introduction.
