Currently organising:

Do you hear voices and have visions? Do you love/care for someone who does? A book club for this book. An online book club for this book Monday nights 6pm AEST fortnightly. Contact me to come along. Join at any time. And please feel welcome to come along if you haven’t been able to read the chapters for the session. Given in the spirit of generosity and mutual aid.

Every thursday I host a gathering called ‘Club Human’ at Abbotsford Sea Scouts by Abbotsford Wharf in Sydney.

Club Human is a consistent and reliable space and time for being human in a world that increasingly encroaches upon this.

“Human beings are not machines; we are something more. We have feeling and experience. Material comforts are not sufficient to satisfy us. We need something deeper — human affection,” -Dalai Lama

At the club, we... move through practices borne out of the legacy of Joanna Macy, 'environmental activist, author and scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory and deep ecology'. That came to me via John Seed. You certainly don't have to be or convert to Buddhism to attend. These practices allow for a sharing of perspectives, knowledge, experience, and wisdom.

Club Human has arisen out of a wish for non-carceral, non-commodified, beyond-human care in community.

I integrate non-carceral peer-support modalities (Alt2su, Emotional CPR). And the practice of 'accompanying' from 'Spiritual Care', often called 'Chaplaincy' or 'Pastoral Care'.

The practices at Club Human are ever evolving out of a mutual learning process.

Peer Support and/or Spiritual Care

I would like to offer support to anyone in my locality ‘Canada Bay’ area of ‘Sydney’. However big or small your feelings are. This can be over the phone, in person in a public place, or over the internet, via jitsi (video calling).

My availability looks like: I have one casual employer who can call me in a maximum of a few hours once a fortnight. I will know this in advance. I may have a rehersal or recording booked well in advance, as I am in the midst of recording. And on thursday evenings 5:30pm-7pm I may be hosting the drop in communal care gathering listed above.