Mindfulness. Creativity.
Wise Leadership.

I’m Marion Miller. As a Holistic Leadership & Life Coach, Counsellor, and Mindfulness Teacher, I guide people on the brave journey of deep self-discovery—helping you unearth your true potential & purpose, find the courage to follow your heart, and live a life embodied in nature-based insight, creativity, and wisdom.

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Your Path Beyond the Hustle

After two decades of supporting hundreds of Australians as a Coach and Counselor, and founding The Eco Retreat, my mission continues to evolve. While I am currently developing new programs, projects, and retreats in the Otway foothills, I continue to offer dedicated leadership coaching and counselling for individuals ready to move beyond "hustle culture." Together, we will cultivate an authentic self-leadership and a strategic vision designed for this ever-changing world.

We often spend our lives reacting to external demands, losing sight of the unique calling that brings true meaning, wisdom, and joy to our lives, businesses, and relationships. This is a different path. It is a dual journey: one that empowers you to strategically navigate career changes, projects, and business ideas, while anchoring your growth in mindfulness, community, and a deep reciprocity with the natural world.

Whether we work 1-on-1 to map your strategic path, or gather in community through nature-based group work, this approach supports you to reclaim your inner voice and find your ground. Together, we craft an authentic leadership and life direction—one that feels purposeful, creative, wholesome, and in harmony with the web of life.

Are any of these the goals you seek?

Career & Business Transition: You want to change careers, launch a meaningful project, or transition your business to a more purposeful, intentional path.
Courage & Clarity: You struggle with fear or self-doubt and want the clarity and courage to find your unique vision and voice.
Grounded Leadership: You seek harmony and balance in your leadership role and relationships, moving away from burnout and toward sustainable, wise action.
Ecological & Social Impact: You feel a calling to make a positive difference in the world, and seek a supportive community to help you take the next steps.
Deep Well-being: You want to do the inner work required for true well-being, aligning your daily life with nature-based wisdom and contemplative practices.
Creative Expression: You long to live more creatively, turning your inner insights into tangible projects or businesses that truly matter to you.

I am offering you the tools, knowledge and support to thrive though inner work, mindful clarity and wise action.

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True flourishing requires both individual clarity and the supportive ecosystem of a community. I offer two distinct pathways to support your evolution:

Life, Career & Leadership Coaching

Life Coaching, Career & Leadership Coaching

Deeply personalised coaching and support to build your strategic vision from the inside out.

If you are navigating a major career transition, launching a new business idea, or seeking sustainable balance in a high-pressure leadership role, this is your dedicated space for insight, balance and growth. Together, we unpack the self-doubt, clarify your unique calling, and map out a practical, intentional strategy for your next chapter so you can take meaningful action that is inspired by your passion and dreams.

Best for: Deeply personalised life, career, and leadership transitions.
Location: Available online or in-person at the Glen Iris Studio.

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Group Coaching Courses, Mindfulness Workshops & Retreats

Immersive, nature-based experiences for well-being and collective wisdom. True growth cannot happen in isolation. Through seasonal workshops, mindfulness for practitioners professional develop, wise women's circles, and holistic retreats, we step away from "hustle culture" and look to the natural world for grounding. Integrating mindfulness, Eco-Dharma, and deep nature connection and spirituality, these community spaces provide the collective replenishment and shared inspiration needed to sustain your journey.

Best for: Community connection, mindfulness, and nature-based restoration.
Location: Gathering online, in Melbourne and the Surf Coast, Victoria.

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Before working with Marion, I had little experience with mindfulness, but now I truly see the benefits of incorporating it into my life. Marion was incredibly patient with my progress and consistently supportive. Marion and I built a great relationship - she listened, offered valuable advice, and helped me reconnect with my values. This experience will leave a lasting impact on me. Thanks again for all your help, support, and guidance. I’m grateful for your assistance in reconnecting with my values and understanding what I really value in life, as well as the steps I need to take - Anonymous, Department of Education

About Marion Miller
Coach | Counsellor | Mindfulness Teacher | Ecotherapist | Studio Artist

With over 25 years of experience, I specialise in supporting leaders, practitioners, and creatives through an integrative approach focused on mindfulness, creativity, and leadership.

I hold a Bachelor of Counseling from the Australian College of Applied Professions (ACAP) and am a licensed clinical practitioner with the PACFA. As a certified MBSR teacher, Creative Arts and Ecotherapist, my systems-based, integrative approach respects both humans and the earth.

I am currently training as a Dharma teacher in the Insight Meditation tradition and integrate these teachings with my ancestral earth based, Celtic spiritual tradition and depth psychology training.

I offer programs online and in Glen iris. I am also a studio artist, published author, mother of four, and co-founder of The Eco Retreat, an organic farm, studio and nature retreat on the Surf Coast.

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The Return to the Circle: Why We Gather and How to Facilitate a Women’s Circle Today

There is something instantly grounding about walking into a room where chairs are arranged not in rows, but in a loop. In a world that constantly asks us to look up at a screen, a stage, or a corporate ladder, the circle asks us to do something entirely different: look at each other. By its very design, a circle is beautifully non-hierarchical. There is no "head of the table," no stage for an expert, and no back row to hide in. Every single seat shares the exact same distance

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I’ve just finished reading Wifedom by Anna Funder and it’s a brilliant work of art and a fierce wake-up call.

In this stunning blend of biography and literary excavation, Funder rescues Eileen O’Shaughnessy (George Orwell’s first wife) from the footnotes of history. Orwell is celebrated as the ultimate truth-teller, yet his own brilliant, Oxford-educated wife was systematically erased from the narrative of his life and work—despite editing his manuscripts, managing his chaos, and literally saving his life.

But this book is so much more than literary history. It holds up a mirror to the quiet, systemic ways women’s minds, bodies, and spirits are still expected to vanish today.

It speaks directly to the painful reality of internalised patriarchy—that invisible contract where we minimise our own presence and quiet our voices just to keep the peace.

Unpacking that takes immense courage and effort, but stepping fully into our visibility (in body and mind) is exactly the medicine the world needs right now.

If you are ready to look at history, literature, and our modern relationships with clear, uncompromising eyes, put this at the top of your reading list.

After a conversation I had today on this very topic I decided to reflect some more and write a blog and dedicate it to all the wise women I’ll get to circle with on Saturday night! Drawing out how important reclaiming visibility is and some of the ways we can practice it our daily lives.

Clarissa Pinkola Estés says, “The things that women reclaim are often their own voice, their own values, their imagination, their clairvoyance, their stories, their ancient memories. If we go for the deeper, and the darker, and the less known we will touch the bones.”

Link in bio for the full article 🖤

#bookworm #feminism #womenscirclemelbourne #blogger

Coaching // When we talk about finding our calling or figuring out our unique offering, we’re usually told to look deep inside. What do I love? What am I good at? Those are good questions, but they’re only half the story.

To really understand the impact we’re here to make, we also need to zoom out. We need a bit of a bird’s-eye view, just like this eagle that was checking me out while I was in the garden today.

For me, this is where systems thinking becomes a really beautiful tool for leadership. When you step out of the day-to-day weeds and look at the whole ecosystem—whether that’s your workplace, your community, or the wider landscape—you start to notice the invisible threads. The patterns, the collective pain points, and the natural rhythms of change.

Two things usually happen when you get that broader perspective:
1 You stop judging yourself. You realise the friction you’re feeling often isn’t a personal failure at all—it’s just a symptom of the system you’re operating in.
2 You see where you actually fit. You spot the gaps. You see exactly where your specific wisdom, creativity, and presence can act as a leverage point to create a genuine ripple effect.

Our calling isn’t just a solo act. It’s about how we connect with, support, and sometimes gently transform the systems around us so things can function better as a whole.
Where in your life can you take a step back and look at the bigger pattern?

As I step into a new leadership coaching contract later this week with a client I’ve been helping over the years I’m sitting with this perspective. I’m really looking forward to helping my client zoom out, read their own organisational ecosystems, and lead from a more grounded, aligned place.

How do you find your bird’s-eye view when the day-to-day gets hectic?

#coaching #leadership #systemsthinking #holistic 📸: Eagle @theecoretreat

The song of Rhiannon’s Garden, 2026. Water based oil on 80 x 80 stretched canvas.

This one has truly transformed since the beginning and she became a joy to paint. Inspired by the Irish Celtic folklore of my ancestors.

My daily art journalling practice really supported my experimentation with colour and loosened my mark making and brushstrokes. And just like that - the moment I snapped the photo the wind blew and life imitates art!

#art #artist #painting @theecoretreat

For my new followers - I’m Marion and here’s an update! I’ve recently resigned from a counselling and consulting role at Converge to take on a new BIG project @theecoretreat I questioned whether to keep my counselling license because I’m coaching leaders, practitioners and creatives in professional growth and keen to do more group process.

But in the therapy room I’ve helped hundreds of clients zoom out to social and environmental contexts and compassionately normalise the troubles they feel, acknowledging the body is a natural mirror of the outer world rather than working in the complex context of individual pathologies.

I want to double down on this approach with my coaching work. I’m currently doing PD in art therapy and returned to PACFA for my licence. My four year Dharma teacher training is halfway through and loving that too. I’m integrating these threads in a way of working that is authentic, non dualistic and creative. It seems to me a bandaid to adjust people to a sick system.

The Dharma offers us an ethical and naturally wise philosophy to navigate life and support the weaving of our humanity back into connection with community and nature.

In my experience when we listen deeply to our body, heart and mind together in nature, we can discover how to respond wisely. WE are nature wanting to heal, connect and flourish.

I wanted to share this quote that really resonated with me from one of my study texts. “Casting out the search for pathology and looking to the external pressures of society and culture - rather than within the individual psyche - is another keystone. A broad worldview is also the core of systems thinking. None of these beliefs can be pretended in the therapeutic relationship. The contemporary therapist allows a form of transparency that lets the client into his or her philosophy - of life and of therapy. The two ways of being in the world should not be divided.” -Approaches to Art Therapy: Theory and Technique.

I am continuing to offer group coaching and mindfulness programs online and later in the year a daylong at @theecoretreat thanks for following and reading 💕🪷🙏

#mindfulness #dharma #philosophy

☆ Soul Notes ☆

Soul Notes is a new curation of the whimsy, curiosities, and kindreds I am gathering along the path that spark my creativity. In these images and objects, may you find a little wonder and beauty for your weekend. Which one is your fav?

1. A Cabbage vase from interior designers home in Omeo

2. Make Art not War patch in Sassafras @the_little_eclectic_shop

3. European linen print cushions @estaustralia

4. Sundial purchased from Jenny’s Antiques in Winchelsea for @theecoretreat

5. Art is festival quote

6. Vintage Boro Rug @chameleonactor_japan

7. Bob Brown x Minna Leunig Artist Tote Fundraiser @bobbrownfoundation

8. A perfectly symmetrical Mushroom on the driveway @theecoretreat

9. Bell hooks book The Will to change and a terracotta pot of Himalayan chai at @elektra

10. Candelabra from interior designer home in Omeo

11. Love letters to the earth book by Thich Nhat Hanh

#SoulNotes #Collector #VisualDiary #Artist

My first attempt at printmaking. It has been so rewarding to experiment with new materials and offer my art more intentional time and attention.

I am currently in a major season of transition and realising the need to “compost” what no longer serves me. There is so much learning and tracking involved in fine-tuning what I carry forward and what I let go.

Here is what this creative process has taught me:
-Potential: You can do anything you begin, provided you pay attention and practice.
-Presence: Both art and meditation are processes, not destinations.
-Experience: Making art produces an artifact, but it primarily offers a creative and intuitive experience for the maker.
-Uniqueness: Every moment—like every piece of art—is unique, as is the person who appreciates it.

Having spent my earliest years on a farm in Tasmania, it is no wonder I was drawn to a rooster for this study.

Reginald is now hanging on my gallery wall, a reminder of both my roots and this new life in the Otways.

📸: Reginald the rooster, 2026. Print on A4 in white timber frame.

#art #artist #mindfulart #countrylife

Slow Sunday. Unfinished Art.☀️

#artist #makeartnotwar #painting

“You trust that you contain the whole cosmos; you are made of stars. And that is why you respect yourself and offer reverence to yourself. And, when you look at another person, you see that they are also made of stars. They are a wonderful manifestation. They don’t appear only for a hundred years: they carry eternity with them.” - Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet ✨

The next Mindfulness for practitioner course starts April 14th online. Cultivate calm, clarity and connection for allied health practitioners, coaches, teachers and leaders. Claim PD with your association, PACFA offers 6 PTS. Many workplaces have paid for their employees to do this course. Ask your boss!

We journey through four weeks, unpacking and practicing themes such as: W1-What is true mindfulness? discovering presence and awakening to interbeing. W2-Mind-Body-Social Connection - Embracing Culture, Context and Awareness. W3-Cultivating compassion and loving kindness - Transforming stress. W4-Joyful living and Self-Leadership.

I created this course to expand mindfulness practice beyond the individual self and to help therapists and practitioners (and their clients) be aware of social and environmental contexts within the therapeutic relationship. Find out more and register via the link in bio 🔗

#mindfulness #meditation #alliedhealth #spiritual

First official weekend at the farm. We’re still in the getting to know you phase. I’ve so much to learn from her but there is a sense of belonging and it feels like a meditation just being there. @theecoretreat

#Otways #SlowLiving #NatureMeditation

Today over a pot of chai, I was reflecting on the 2026 Dharma Teacher Training Retreat I attended last week, with a friend who just returned from two months and her first insight retreat in India with one of Insights most senior teachers.

It’s wonderful to feel a deep sence of belonging to something much bigger than yourself and to be so nourished by the practice, teachings and community from all over Australia.

Feeling very blessed to have spiritual friends and sangha and the opportunity to begin to share these teachings and practices to support others and deepen our connections to one another and the earth. It’s much needed in the modern world.

Incredible gratitude flows to Will, Alan and my dear mentor Subhana for having the vision to create the Insight Meditation Institute. I’m excited to be part of a dedicated committee and support them to expand the courses, workshops and resources and new platforms to share the love.

A few of us here have decided to create a new sangha and look forward to telling you more about Insight Circle AND the launch of @theecoretreat in Boonah, Victoria on the Surf Coast will be coming very soon. Watch this space and reach out to me to find out more. 🙏🏼❤️✨

#dharma #insightmeditationinstitute #meditation #mindfulness #insightaustralia

Celebrating a new era for the family with delicious Italian cuisine in Melbourne @ilsolitopostomelbourne

#celebration #joy #family

Last night, I sat in a circle with a group of incredible women, and we spoke about transition—that wobbly space where the old version of us has fallen away, but the new hasn’t quite arrived yet.

Personally, I was relieved when I put out a vote and women’s circle group on WhatsApp voted transition as the theme. Perimenopause for me is a hot mess at times and the circle helps support my transition too!

I offered a Dharma talk, guided meditation, inquiry and medicine wheel activity. I love how our circle is growing, there’s been interest from other facilitators to be involved and we’re acknowledging our group is the anchor for navigating our lives with care, clarity, connection and wisdom.

In threshold moments, it’s easy to feel fragmented and one only needs to look to the broader culture to see the outer pressures that we’re exposed to.

To help us be whole, we explored the ancient teachings and practices of the Brahma Viharis (the Sublime Abodes). I like to think of them as a medicine wheel for the heart:
- Metta (Kindness): Cultivating a friendly heart when things get messy.
- Karuna (Compassion): Softening through difficulties. Honouring our grief and letting go.
- Mudita (Sympathetic Joy): Celebrating the small sparks, even if they aren’t yours.
-Upekkha (Equanimity): Staying steady even when the ground is moving and realising all experiences are to be encountered.

When we let our emotions flow like a river, our psychology organises itself more freely. We stop striving for control over the body mind and others and start co-creating with the “ecology” of our lives. We discover the cosmic flow of consciousness that is being expressed through us 🌊

Some Big Updates: 🏡 We settle on the new farm on the Surf Coast very soon!

Monthly Women’s Circles at the Glen Iris Studio are now live for the rest of 2026. New “Trinity Bundle” (3 circles for $120) is now available to help you commit to your own space.

Small, intimate circle retreats on the Surf Coast are coming later this year through @theecoretreat

Check the link in my bio to book your spot. I can’t wait to sit with you all again. 🙏🏼🩵

#womenscircle #brahmaviharis #melbourne #mindfulness

From swimming with horses in the bay to exploring hidden blue holes and vibrant coral reefs, Ratua Island is pure magic ✨

Loved staying in the 13th century style teak architecture with sunrise over the ocean and gathering ideas for the farm too. Chasing the sun in the heart of the Pacific. Thank you @ratuaislandresort ☀️🌴🐠🌊

#AdventureTravel #Vanuatu #RatuaIslandResort #NatureLovers

Island Princess, 2026. Watercolour, sharpie and oil pastel on A4.

Lost in the rhythm of the tides and the whisper of palms. 🌴✨

This series is my love letter to the Pacific—a celebration of the gentle strength and radiant beauty of the Island Princess. From the deep turquoise of the reef to the golden glow of the sun, each brushstroke embracing the warm breeze. 🐚🌺🌊 @marionmiller_ @theecoretreat

#ArtistOfInstagram #PacificIslands #NatureSpirit #GoddessEnergy #TropicalArt

There’s a kind of clarity that comes from looking backward to see the way forward. 🌿 Just finished the book Ancient Futures, and it’s left me thinking so much about what we’ve traded for progress in the west, especially from a social, cultural and environmental perspective.

Helena Norberg-Hodge paints such a beautiful, haunting picture of Ladakh—a place where community wasn’t a project, but a way of breathing and weaving daily life into place. It’s a reminder that spirituality isn’t just a solo practice; it’s woven into how we treat the land and our neighbors. Moving toward a more local, wholesome life isn’t about going back—it’s about coming home to ourselves.

#mindfulness #community #naturebased #localisation #books

A reel of a short Dharma talk I gave in January to the Summer Series Gathering. January was an intense month for our family and I know there’s others out there that can relate. I gave the original talk as I was experiencing profound impermanence. Head over to You Tube to hear the full 15 minutes and what I learned from witnessing life unfolding as a teaching 🙏🏼❤️

#mindfulness #dharma #impermanence

As we set off on another Mindfulness for practitioners course, the first for 2026 tonight, I’m reflecting on the quote by Mary Oliver. “Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”

Pictured is the coastal banksia I planted three years ago when we decided to rewild our backyard and the entrance to the Glen Iris studio.

The tree really struggled to take off, research told us the soil conditions may not have been right, despite it being indigenous. We added nutrient and checked ph. At one point I didn’t think it would make it but when I planted a bottle brush shrub just behind it something magical happened. It started to flourish and a year later it’s thriving beyond the fence line. Today I spotted the first joyful flower!

It is believed the Buddha taught what is sometimes referred to as the “Planters Sutta,” a short discourse in the Pali Canon that explains that the planting of parks and groves for shade is a virtuous act. There is no doubt in my mind the Buddha understood the true nature of interdependence and reciprocity more than 2500 years ago. Gardening for the human and more-than-human-world is a generosity practice that keeps on giving!

Plants can’t survive without the right conditions and biodiversity and neither can humans- interdependence is the true nature of reality. That’s why the MFP course is focussed on social mindfulness and inter-being. If you can’t make it tonight you may be interested in attending later in the year. New dates will be released soon and you’re welcome to reach out to find out more 🌿

#mindfulness #dharma #ecology

The Rooster journal series, 2026. Inspired by my encounter with the rooster while staying at Babenorek studio, a relaxing off-grid accomodation on Airbnb in Deans Marsh.

Many a rooster has featured in art across history and you can see why, they have a beautiful aesthetic. I was fascinated by how the rooster struts about with purpose and style, busy singing his song and managing his daily duties with ease and consistency.

I used gouache and water colour. First time trying cut out prints and would like experiment with more print making materials. Exploring ideas for a small canvas painting for the new creative studio I’m setting up at @theecoretreat on the Surf Coast. l also got accepted into a visual art course at RMIT starting mid year and looking forward to making more art and connecting with more artists!
🐓🐓🐓

#artist #art #creativestudio

Like a lake unruffled by any breeze, the concentrated mind is a faithful reflector that mirrors whatever is placed before it exactly as it is. - Bhikkhu Bodhi.

The first 2026 round of Mindfulness for practitioners starts soon. Join us online for a deep dive into cultivating calm, clarity and connection for practitioners, coaches and leaders.

Offered as a PD for allied health professionals to support social mindfulness, holding space and finding ground in these troubled times.

Claim 6 CPD PTS with PACFA. Check with ACA, AHPRA, APS and other allied health associations. ☑️

📆 Feb 2-March 2
📍Zoom Online
⏰ 7-8.30pm

Books can be made via the website, link in bio. Contact me to find out more.

#mindfulness #professionaldevelopment #alliedhealth

On Vision // I used to think vision was an active verb—something I did to the world. I’d point my eyes at my goals, direct my focus toward my problems, and try to focus on a solution.

But with experience, I’ve been practicing keeping my eyes open and being “wide awake” without trying to direct my attention.
It’s a subtle shift. When you stop hunting for what you want to see, you become aware that something is flowing through you. You realise that “seeing” isn’t a one-way street; it’s a mix of the conscious world and the unconscious material floating just beneath the surface.

Why this matters:
• The Perception Loop: Our universe is only as large as our perception of it. When we stay in a narrow, directed state, our world shrinks. But when we cultivate awareness, we are literally expanding the universe.
• The Impasse Trap: When we hit a wall, we usually lean in closer, obsessing over the “story” of our failure. This is where hopelessness lives.
• The “Zoom” Technique: Boundlessness comes from the ability to zoom back. By stepping out of the narrative, we stop seeing a “wall” and start seeing the pathways around it that were there all along.
The next time you feel stuck, stop looking. Start receiving. The universe is waiting for you to grow big enough to see the way 👁️✨

If you dropped the ‘story’ of your current biggest challenge and zoomed out 100x, what new pathway may become visible?

#vision #bigmind #awareness

Wild at Heart 🖤

Mumma daughter long weekend at Deans Marsh. Getting to know our new community and place @theecoretreat Icy cold ocean swells and ice-cream, local art exhibit, farmer sheep dog trials, met the new general store owners, walks round lake Elizabeth, ramen in Lorne, lots creative practice and a new rooster series I’ll post soon. Love some Surf Coast.

Join me tonight online for a writing wild, talk, nature meditation and journaling session. Link in bio ✍🏼🐓🏡🌊🌲🐏☀️

#surfcoast #otways #nature

My 2026 term 1 calendar of events is now live. I’m looking forward a new year offering mindfulness, coaching and ecotherapy @marionmiller_ @theecoretreat with deep intentions for well-being, creativity and leadership.

Explore your creative process, contribute to the collective well-being, discover nature-based insight to expand the heart mind, navigate change and awaken a more conscious leadership. Join me in doing more of what you love in 2026.

Bookings are now open for the following offerings:

☆ 24/1 Wise Women’s Circle in the Glen Iris Studio. 7pm-9pm.

☆ The Summer Series, mindfulness, insight meditation and creative journalling workshop series. Monday 7pm online.

☆ Mindfulness for Practitioners online course for Allied Health PD, Feb 9th-March 2.

☆ @theecoretreat Launching soon!

☆ One on one Leadership & Life Coaching available Tuesday and Thursday arvo through to March.

Bookings can be made via the links in bio. Looking forward to a year of purposeful connection in community ♡

#coaching #mindfulness #leadership #wellbeing #creativity

Some more time on this painting today. Dedicating it to Dad - who told me while I was combing his long white hair this morning, he had a 10 o’clock appointment with a bird. Assuming he meant his physio. 🦜🎨

#unfinished #bird #nature #artist #art

Happy New Year from Anglers Rest in the Victorian High Country! ⛰️

#Victoria #Nature #Mindful #NewYear

Finished just in time for Christmas! 🎄

First love, 2025. Acrylic paint on 750 x 600 canvas.

A whimsical ode to gardeners of soul, portraying the special bond growing up with a childhood pet, and a gentle dedication to all those who are with us in spirit. Merry Christmas ❤️😻🕯️

#painting #art #artist #sammy

And that’s a wrap! The working year just ended for me with a big exhale. I’m just looking out to the garden and reflecting on all the beautiful people I got to support in my Empower coaching program, EAP counselling and coaching with Converge International and co-facilitate/collaborate with in community mindfulness and ecotherapy groups with @theecoretreat

I feel very honoured to be supporting and sharing incredible life journeys and transformations. Fills my heart with great hope in our humanity, while we are all different there is a common goodness that wants to shine through, even in darkness - it’s just sometimes harder to find the spark. I wish you all a restful holiday, peaceful, creative and caring connection and a joyous festivity.

To celebrate the end of an era I’m offering community an online guided mindfulness and insight meditation practice in nature this coming Monday at 7pm with a little reflecting arts/writing inquiry. Take your phone outside and bring a journal!

You can register via the website under courses/workshops menu or join the Insight Collective WhatsApp group in bio to join in our conversation, activities and receive the link on Monday. May all beings be free from suffering ❤️🙏🏼✨

#meditation #mindfulness #coach

Happy Friday ☀️

One of tools we use in leadership and life coaching is called reframing. It can be really helpful for working in the mindfulness and counselling space with fear/anxiety too.

It’s helpful because when the nervous system is in a hyper vigilant state, the executive function of the mind switches off and our perspective narrows and looks for threat.

In chronic stress and anxiety the personality can develop patterns that organise around this condition and complexity can arise.

On a systems and cultural level, there is also injustice, discrimination, limited resources, competition and the normalised reduction in attention span that perpetuates this state.

Reframing when practiced with true mindfulness (and compassion) supports nervous system regulation, opening a window of tolerance and the opportunity to broaden and build well-being.

The benefits of reframing process include:
- different perspectives, cognitive flexibility instead of a fixed mindset, uncovering hidden opportunities within challenges and possibility for change.
- more resilience, shifting from fear and threat based thinking to compassion, curiosity and hope while reducing stress and anxiety.
- empowerment when you realise you have the creative agency to assign meaning to your experience.

Some of the areas of life where reframing might be helpful include, career transitions, personal relationships and goal setting.

There’s always plenty happening at this time of year including setbacks that might just be new opportunities for growth. Journalling with a self reflective prompt might be a great start.

What situation/s could you apply some reframing as we head toward the end of year and the start of a new year? ✨✍🏼

#coaching #mindfulness #leadership

Visiting our family in the Adelaide Hills, we gather as an era comes to end we celebrate the horizon of new beginnings for us all. I love it here so much, with her rolling hills, soft meadows and gentle sunsets, I could gaze into the landscape for an eternity my senses drunk on the beauty. Shared peacefully with a sun worshipping four legged friend and loved ones. 🌸✨

#springhassprung #adealidehills #naturelover

Last week I got the flu and needed lots of bed rest. I binged watched The Empress for two days and lived vicariously in the Austro-Hungarian empire (mid 1800s). Loved hearing the German language and noticed I began to recall words from childhood when mum, nana and pop spoke German.

Feeling a LOT better now and went to Envirofest yesterday at the new eco centre in St Kilda where I will be facilitating meditation with Melbourne Insight Meditation next year. (Last slide)

Last week also gave me the space to look back over the year and do some analysis and forecasting. I was able to clarify what I’ve achieved, what to prioritise moving forward and what I want to let go of.

Today I solidified all this with spring cleaning, prettying up the house for the festive season to begin, finishing my book and the tree is up awaiting the elflings to return and my favourite time of year to begin!

Reflecting is an invaluable process for business or leadership at end of year - a holistic way to savour the bounty, harvest the wisdom and set new intentions. I have only two spaces opening up for anyone looking for a coaching partnership over Dec/Jan as things slow down for the next couple of months! Link in bio to find out more ✨

#coach #coachlife #mindfulness

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