This is a free event other than a $5 donation for material for Essential Oil Roller Creation Workshop.
Reading books, sleep-ins, blankets and cosying up near the fire; Winter is often a needed time of rest and rejuvenation, of refraction and reflection.
It’s also a great time to find more of self and start to cultivate your path for the future seasons.
11.00-11.20: Purpose Circle
11.20-11.40: Divine Light Meditation
11.45-12.45: Aroma bliss
12.45-1.30: Potluck picnic
1:30-2:00: Essential Oil Roller Creation
($5 donation for materials)
2-3.30: Authentic Relating
3.30-4:00: Body Scan Meditation
We start the day with a visioning of purpose at the Organic Community Gardens.
We connect in with our higher purpose of the change we want to see in the world. The positive vision of the way forward as Blue Mountaineers, community and world. It’s easy to get stuck or fearful of what’s not going right in the world so let’s get clearer about your individual path, any community path and bigger purpose - to expand towards the future we want to see. To find our individual and collective why and to find the first steps of how, together.
Until then, let this question echo within: What is my higher purpose on this Earth?
There will be mini workshops - 20-30 minutes each to breathe life into self, nature and beyond. To harmonise.
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Offerings from Facilitators:
Gavin Patterson is bringing new energies through to move into the next levels of consciousness, activating more of human potential with a Purpose Circle.
The Divine Light meditation will clear the lower chakras and the higher chakras to ground and bring more bliss in. Gavin will offer two heart opening symbols for self love and love for others, to invite more love in and out, activating the heart space.
Body Scan meditation, the insomnia balm. Body scans are amazing at releasing tension in the body and slowing down a busy mind. We will slowly explore the body with this coming into self.
Link to Gavin Patterson
https://www.waybackhome.com.au
Holistic Exercise Physiologist
Mary-Kate combines laughter yoga with high-frequency essential oils to naturally boost oxytocin, dopamine, serotonin, and endorphins. This "aroma bliss experience" activates the parasympathetic nervous system, creating deep relaxation and emotional reset through the synergy of therapeutic laughter and aromatic healing.
**Essential Oil Roller Creation Workshop**
Create your own custom essential oil roller for just a $5 donation! Learn the benefits of essential oils, then make a personalised therapeutic roller for continuous wellness benefits. Perfect for stress relief, energy, or relaxation – your portable wellness solution to use anytime, anywhere.
Link to Mary-Kate's contact and events:
https://sustainablehealthaustralia.com.au/
Authentic Relating
Masoud Katiraei
There was a time in my life when I felt constantly empty. I tried to fill the void with whatever I could—junk food, games, drinking, endless scrolling. But nothing really touched that deeper ache.
Looking back now, I can see what was missing: real connection. Not just being around people, but feeling met—seen, heard, and accepted.
When I stumbled into an Authentic Relating workshop at a festival, something clicked. It gave me a glimpse of what’s possible when we drop the small talk and show up as we truly are. It was so different from anything I’d experienced before.
Since then, I’ve spent the last few years running workshops that bring people into that same kind of connection. I’m now studying a Master of Clinical Psychology, and I constantly see how what we practice in these spaces—curiosity, empathy, presence—aligns with what the research shows creates mental wellbeing, resilience, and deeper relationships.
These workshops aren’t therapy. But they are deeply healing. Again and again, I see people walk out lighter, clearer, and more connected—to themselves and others.
I’d love to share that space with you.
Link to Masoud's events:
https://linktr.ee/liveandlovefully
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It’s also a good time to feel and reach out about any offerings to Gavin Patterson that you have as a cocreator of the garden’s Festival of Joy in Spring (Event coming):
Facilitators
Market holders
Healers
Musicians
Volunteer crew
Decorators
Leave no trace helpers
Joy Architects to construct the vision, organise and breathe life into the day.
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