I, Niamh Murray, am co-hosting this event run by Deep Ecology Sydney, as part of the Blue Mountains Sustainability Festival

Join Deep Ecology Sydney for this short workshop, as we move in community towards a life-sustaining society. We will be leaning into some of the crunchy emotions that arise in response to the crises of our world. We will also be exploring deep time, and how we can work collectively for a better world.

WHAT: Deep Ecology Workshop for anyone who is interested in creating a life-sustaining society
WHEN: Saturday 6 September 2025 10:10am-12:30pm
WHERE: Blue Mountains Sustainability Festival, Katoomba
BRING: journal and a pen/drawing materials, water bottle, warm clothing, sun- and rain-protection
RSVP: email deepecologysydney@gmail.com or click attending on Facebook event

Deep Ecology- sometimes called “The Work that Reconnects”- is a set of practices developed by peace campaigner Joanna Macy and forest protector John Seed, among others. These practices help us to experience the world as alive and our selves as interconnected with other living beings and the web of life. Workshops follow a set sequence which provides safety:

• Resourcing us with connection and GRATITUDE;

• Helping us to experience and share with others our innermost responses to the present condition of our world, whilst being supported in community (DESPAIR work);

• Reframing our pain for the world as evidence of our interconnectedness and our power to protect it (SEEING WITH NEW EYES);

• GOING FORTH with greater clarity and capacity for action.
  

Please attend on time and stay for the whole session. We will be holding space for a range of feelings, and we want everyone to be emotionally safe when they leave.

We acknowledge this event will take place on the lands of the Dharug and Gundungurra People. We pay respects to Elders past, present and emerging. We recognise their fight to prevent ecological destruction since colonisation (which continues today) and we join their continued resistance when we stand up for social and ecological justice.

RSVP: Email deepecologysydney@gmail.com or click attending on Facebook event