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It is in the pause before action, the breath before speech, the stillness before movement – these quiet spaces are where strength is gathered. But no movement can thrive if the people driving it are running on empty.
Wellbeing is not a luxury, nor a retreat from activism – it is the very soil from which resilience, creativity, and collective power grow. At this year’s Annual Forum, we cultivated collective strength through a series of wellbeing sessions designed to ground, restore, and recharge participants. Together, they offered a simple but vital reminder: when we take a moment to pause and care for ourselves and one another, we can build movements that last.
From breath to body: Nurturing our inner power
At our Annual Forum, we talked a lot about power. We spoke of challenging the power that is often held over us in this modern world, as well as the ‘power with’ that we can weave together in solidarity, and the ‘power to’ that we reclaim through embracing our own agency. Yet, none of these forms of power can truly take root without cultivating the inner resource of the power within.
We tended to our inner power at our forum through wellbeing workshops such as ‘TUNE IN’, in which Simone Campa from Orchestra Terra Madre invited us to surrender to the medicine of sound. We entered this workshop with open minds and hearts, but still carrying the ordinary weight of daily worries and stresses. As the sounds moved through us, our bodies’ natural healing response stirred, and we were ushered into a state of clarity, flow, and renewal.
We journeyed further inward in the Embodied Power workshop, but this time through the gateway of the body. Through gentle bodywork and mindful movements, we rooted ourselves in the present and reconnected with our innermost values. Resilience emerged not as something hard or unyielding, but as a something that can be connected to with ease that aligns the individual with a wider collective strength.
Collective care: Wellbeing as a political and social practice
Having rooted ourselves in our own inner power, we were reminded that this grounding is never solitary. In the “Transforming Power Mapping for Organisations and Individuals" workshop, we were invited to step beyond the self and into the tapestry of the collective, where care and healing become not only a personal but also a profoundly political and social act.
Shining a light on how the feminist movement is deeply intertwined with the sharing of resources, support, and energy, the session was less about instruction and more about unity. Together, we sat in a circle of reflection, rest, and presence, holding space for one another. In this session, we came to realise that through collective care and healing we are all made stronger and more powerful than we could ever aspire to be alone.
From stillness to strength: Navigating external power dynamics with presence and purpose
Where other sessions showed us the importance of nurturing our own inner power and building collective strength through rest, care, and solidarity, the “Power and Presence: From Reactivity to Reflexivity and Regeneration” workshop drew our attention to another vital element of wellbeing: how we relate to power itself. In this session, we reflected on how easily movements can be swept into cycles of urgency and reactivity – burning bright, but then quickly burning out. Here, restoration became more than a moment to rest and recharge, it became a practice of renewal.
Returning to our breath and body through mindful practices, embodiment exercises, and collaborative dialogue, we were invited to reclaim our personal agency, strengthen inner resilience, and connect with a deeper source of presence. From that grounded state, we practiced ways of meeting external power imbalances with clarity, steadiness, and purpose. Through this practice, the turbulence of external power dynamics, the instability and the polarisation that shapes our modern political and social landscape no longer felt like storms to be feared, but tides that can be navigated with clarity and strength.
From pause to purpose: Wellbeing as the foundation of collective power
Wellbeing is not a break or a retreat from the work of change. It is the very foundation upon which movements are built. When we take moments to pause together, resting, reflecting, and caring for one another, we create the space to cultivate the power and connection needed to bring about lasting transformation. Change will come not from endless motion and activity, but from the collective strength of movements that know how to pause, and in pausing, find their power.
It is in the pause before action, the breath before speech, the stillness before movement – these quiet spaces are where strength is gathered. But no movement can thrive if the people driving it are running on empty.
Wellbeing is not a luxury, nor a retreat from activism – it is the very soil from which resilience, creativity, and collective power grow. At this year’s Annual Forum, we cultivated collective strength through a series of wellbeing sessions designed to ground, restore, and recharge participants. Together, they offered a simple but vital reminder: when we take a moment to pause and care for ourselves and one another, we can build movements that last.
From breath to body: Nurturing our inner power
At our Annual Forum, we talked a lot about power. We spoke of challenging the power that is often held over us in this modern world, as well as the ‘power with’ that we can weave together in solidarity, and the ‘power to’ that we reclaim through embracing our own agency. Yet, none of these forms of power can truly take root without cultivating the inner resource of the power within.
We tended to our inner power at our forum through wellbeing workshops such as ‘TUNE IN’, in which Simone Campa from Orchestra Terra Madre invited us to surrender to the medicine of sound. We entered this workshop with open minds and hearts, but still carrying the ordinary weight of daily worries and stresses. As the sounds moved through us, our bodies’ natural healing response stirred, and we were ushered into a state of clarity, flow, and renewal.
We journeyed further inward in the Embodied Power workshop, but this time through the gateway of the body. Through gentle bodywork and mindful movements, we rooted ourselves in the present and reconnected with our innermost values. Resilience emerged not as something hard or unyielding, but as a something that can be connected to with ease that aligns the individual with a wider collective strength.
Collective care: Wellbeing as a political and social practice
Having rooted ourselves in our own inner power, we were reminded that this grounding is never solitary. In the “Transforming Power Mapping for Organisations and Individuals" workshop, we were invited to step beyond the self and into the tapestry of the collective, where care and healing become not only a personal but also a profoundly political and social act.
Shining a light on how the feminist movement is deeply intertwined with the sharing of resources, support, and energy, the session was less about instruction and more about unity. Together, we sat in a circle of reflection, rest, and presence, holding space for one another. In this session, we came to realise that through collective care and healing we are all made stronger and more powerful than we could ever aspire to be alone.
From stillness to strength: Navigating external power dynamics with presence and purpose
Where other sessions showed us the importance of nurturing our own inner power and building collective strength through rest, care, and solidarity, the “Power and Presence: From Reactivity to Reflexivity and Regeneration” workshop drew our attention to another vital element of wellbeing: how we relate to power itself. In this session, we reflected on how easily movements can be swept into cycles of urgency and reactivity – burning bright, but then quickly burning out. Here, restoration became more than a moment to rest and recharge, it became a practice of renewal.
Returning to our breath and body through mindful practices, embodiment exercises, and collaborative dialogue, we were invited to reclaim our personal agency, strengthen inner resilience, and connect with a deeper source of presence. From that grounded state, we practiced ways of meeting external power imbalances with clarity, steadiness, and purpose. Through this practice, the turbulence of external power dynamics, the instability and the polarisation that shapes our modern political and social landscape no longer felt like storms to be feared, but tides that can be navigated with clarity and strength.
From pause to purpose: Wellbeing as the foundation of collective power
Wellbeing is not a break or a retreat from the work of change. It is the very foundation upon which movements are built. When we take moments to pause together, resting, reflecting, and caring for one another, we create the space to cultivate the power and connection needed to bring about lasting transformation. Change will come not from endless motion and activity, but from the collective strength of movements that know how to pause, and in pausing, find their power.
It is in the pause before action, the breath before speech, the stillness before movement – these quiet spaces are where strength is gathered. But no movement can thrive if the people driving it are running on empty.
Wellbeing is not a luxury, nor a retreat from activism – it is the very soil from which resilience, creativity, and collective power grow. At this year’s Annual Forum, we cultivated collective strength through a series of wellbeing sessions designed to ground, restore, and recharge participants. Together, they offered a simple but vital reminder: when we take a moment to pause and care for ourselves and one another, we can build movements that last.
From breath to body: Nurturing our inner power
At our Annual Forum, we talked a lot about power. We spoke of challenging the power that is often held over us in this modern world, as well as the ‘power with’ that we can weave together in solidarity, and the ‘power to’ that we reclaim through embracing our own agency. Yet, none of these forms of power can truly take root without cultivating the inner resource of the power within.
We tended to our inner power at our forum through wellbeing workshops such as ‘TUNE IN’, in which Simone Campa from Orchestra Terra Madre invited us to surrender to the medicine of sound. We entered this workshop with open minds and hearts, but still carrying the ordinary weight of daily worries and stresses. As the sounds moved through us, our bodies’ natural healing response stirred, and we were ushered into a state of clarity, flow, and renewal.
We journeyed further inward in the Embodied Power workshop, but this time through the gateway of the body. Through gentle bodywork and mindful movements, we rooted ourselves in the present and reconnected with our innermost values. Resilience emerged not as something hard or unyielding, but as a something that can be connected to with ease that aligns the individual with a wider collective strength.
Collective care: Wellbeing as a political and social practice
Having rooted ourselves in our own inner power, we were reminded that this grounding is never solitary. In the “Transforming Power Mapping for Organisations and Individuals" workshop, we were invited to step beyond the self and into the tapestry of the collective, where care and healing become not only a personal but also a profoundly political and social act.
Shining a light on how the feminist movement is deeply intertwined with the sharing of resources, support, and energy, the session was less about instruction and more about unity. Together, we sat in a circle of reflection, rest, and presence, holding space for one another. In this session, we came to realise that through collective care and healing we are all made stronger and more powerful than we could ever aspire to be alone.
From stillness to strength: Navigating external power dynamics with presence and purpose
Where other sessions showed us the importance of nurturing our own inner power and building collective strength through rest, care, and solidarity, the “Power and Presence: From Reactivity to Reflexivity and Regeneration” workshop drew our attention to another vital element of wellbeing: how we relate to power itself. In this session, we reflected on how easily movements can be swept into cycles of urgency and reactivity – burning bright, but then quickly burning out. Here, restoration became more than a moment to rest and recharge, it became a practice of renewal.
Returning to our breath and body through mindful practices, embodiment exercises, and collaborative dialogue, we were invited to reclaim our personal agency, strengthen inner resilience, and connect with a deeper source of presence. From that grounded state, we practiced ways of meeting external power imbalances with clarity, steadiness, and purpose. Through this practice, the turbulence of external power dynamics, the instability and the polarisation that shapes our modern political and social landscape no longer felt like storms to be feared, but tides that can be navigated with clarity and strength.
From pause to purpose: Wellbeing as the foundation of collective power
Wellbeing is not a break or a retreat from the work of change. It is the very foundation upon which movements are built. When we take moments to pause together, resting, reflecting, and caring for one another, we create the space to cultivate the power and connection needed to bring about lasting transformation. Change will come not from endless motion and activity, but from the collective strength of movements that know how to pause, and in pausing, find their power.
It is in the pause before action, the breath before speech, the stillness before movement – these quiet spaces are where strength is gathered. But no movement can thrive if the people driving it are running on empty.
Wellbeing is not a luxury, nor a retreat from activism – it is the very soil from which resilience, creativity, and collective power grow. At this year’s Annual Forum, we cultivated collective strength through a series of wellbeing sessions designed to ground, restore, and recharge participants. Together, they offered a simple but vital reminder: when we take a moment to pause and care for ourselves and one another, we can build movements that last.
From breath to body: Nurturing our inner power
At our Annual Forum, we talked a lot about power. We spoke of challenging the power that is often held over us in this modern world, as well as the ‘power with’ that we can weave together in solidarity, and the ‘power to’ that we reclaim through embracing our own agency. Yet, none of these forms of power can truly take root without cultivating the inner resource of the power within.
We tended to our inner power at our forum through wellbeing workshops such as ‘TUNE IN’, in which Simone Campa from Orchestra Terra Madre invited us to surrender to the medicine of sound. We entered this workshop with open minds and hearts, but still carrying the ordinary weight of daily worries and stresses. As the sounds moved through us, our bodies’ natural healing response stirred, and we were ushered into a state of clarity, flow, and renewal.
We journeyed further inward in the Embodied Power workshop, but this time through the gateway of the body. Through gentle bodywork and mindful movements, we rooted ourselves in the present and reconnected with our innermost values. Resilience emerged not as something hard or unyielding, but as a something that can be connected to with ease that aligns the individual with a wider collective strength.
Collective care: Wellbeing as a political and social practice
Having rooted ourselves in our own inner power, we were reminded that this grounding is never solitary. In the “Transforming Power Mapping for Organisations and Individuals" workshop, we were invited to step beyond the self and into the tapestry of the collective, where care and healing become not only a personal but also a profoundly political and social act.
Shining a light on how the feminist movement is deeply intertwined with the sharing of resources, support, and energy, the session was less about instruction and more about unity. Together, we sat in a circle of reflection, rest, and presence, holding space for one another. In this session, we came to realise that through collective care and healing we are all made stronger and more powerful than we could ever aspire to be alone.
From stillness to strength: Navigating external power dynamics with presence and purpose
Where other sessions showed us the importance of nurturing our own inner power and building collective strength through rest, care, and solidarity, the “Power and Presence: From Reactivity to Reflexivity and Regeneration” workshop drew our attention to another vital element of wellbeing: how we relate to power itself. In this session, we reflected on how easily movements can be swept into cycles of urgency and reactivity – burning bright, but then quickly burning out. Here, restoration became more than a moment to rest and recharge, it became a practice of renewal.
Returning to our breath and body through mindful practices, embodiment exercises, and collaborative dialogue, we were invited to reclaim our personal agency, strengthen inner resilience, and connect with a deeper source of presence. From that grounded state, we practiced ways of meeting external power imbalances with clarity, steadiness, and purpose. Through this practice, the turbulence of external power dynamics, the instability and the polarisation that shapes our modern political and social landscape no longer felt like storms to be feared, but tides that can be navigated with clarity and strength.
From pause to purpose: Wellbeing as the foundation of collective power
Wellbeing is not a break or a retreat from the work of change. It is the very foundation upon which movements are built. When we take moments to pause together, resting, reflecting, and caring for one another, we create the space to cultivate the power and connection needed to bring about lasting transformation. Change will come not from endless motion and activity, but from the collective strength of movements that know how to pause, and in pausing, find their power.
It is in the pause before action, the breath before speech, the stillness before movement – these quiet spaces are where strength is gathered. But no movement can thrive if the people driving it are running on empty.
Wellbeing is not a luxury, nor a retreat from activism – it is the very soil from which resilience, creativity, and collective power grow. At this year’s Annual Forum, we cultivated collective strength through a series of wellbeing sessions designed to ground, restore, and recharge participants. Together, they offered a simple but vital reminder: when we take a moment to pause and care for ourselves and one another, we can build movements that last.
From breath to body: Nurturing our inner power
At our Annual Forum, we talked a lot about power. We spoke of challenging the power that is often held over us in this modern world, as well as the ‘power with’ that we can weave together in solidarity, and the ‘power to’ that we reclaim through embracing our own agency. Yet, none of these forms of power can truly take root without cultivating the inner resource of the power within.
We tended to our inner power at our forum through wellbeing workshops such as ‘TUNE IN’, in which Simone Campa from Orchestra Terra Madre invited us to surrender to the medicine of sound. We entered this workshop with open minds and hearts, but still carrying the ordinary weight of daily worries and stresses. As the sounds moved through us, our bodies’ natural healing response stirred, and we were ushered into a state of clarity, flow, and renewal.
We journeyed further inward in the Embodied Power workshop, but this time through the gateway of the body. Through gentle bodywork and mindful movements, we rooted ourselves in the present and reconnected with our innermost values. Resilience emerged not as something hard or unyielding, but as a something that can be connected to with ease that aligns the individual with a wider collective strength.
Collective care: Wellbeing as a political and social practice
Having rooted ourselves in our own inner power, we were reminded that this grounding is never solitary. In the “Transforming Power Mapping for Organisations and Individuals" workshop, we were invited to step beyond the self and into the tapestry of the collective, where care and healing become not only a personal but also a profoundly political and social act.
Shining a light on how the feminist movement is deeply intertwined with the sharing of resources, support, and energy, the session was less about instruction and more about unity. Together, we sat in a circle of reflection, rest, and presence, holding space for one another. In this session, we came to realise that through collective care and healing we are all made stronger and more powerful than we could ever aspire to be alone.
From stillness to strength: Navigating external power dynamics with presence and purpose
Where other sessions showed us the importance of nurturing our own inner power and building collective strength through rest, care, and solidarity, the “Power and Presence: From Reactivity to Reflexivity and Regeneration” workshop drew our attention to another vital element of wellbeing: how we relate to power itself. In this session, we reflected on how easily movements can be swept into cycles of urgency and reactivity – burning bright, but then quickly burning out. Here, restoration became more than a moment to rest and recharge, it became a practice of renewal.
Returning to our breath and body through mindful practices, embodiment exercises, and collaborative dialogue, we were invited to reclaim our personal agency, strengthen inner resilience, and connect with a deeper source of presence. From that grounded state, we practiced ways of meeting external power imbalances with clarity, steadiness, and purpose. Through this practice, the turbulence of external power dynamics, the instability and the polarisation that shapes our modern political and social landscape no longer felt like storms to be feared, but tides that can be navigated with clarity and strength.
From pause to purpose: Wellbeing as the foundation of collective power
Wellbeing is not a break or a retreat from the work of change. It is the very foundation upon which movements are built. When we take moments to pause together, resting, reflecting, and caring for one another, we create the space to cultivate the power and connection needed to bring about lasting transformation. Change will come not from endless motion and activity, but from the collective strength of movements that know how to pause, and in pausing, find their power.
It is in the pause before action, the breath before speech, the stillness before movement – these quiet spaces are where strength is gathered. But no movement can thrive if the people driving it are running on empty.
Wellbeing is not a luxury, nor a retreat from activism – it is the very soil from which resilience, creativity, and collective power grow. At this year’s Annual Forum, we cultivated collective strength through a series of wellbeing sessions designed to ground, restore, and recharge participants. Together, they offered a simple but vital reminder: when we take a moment to pause and care for ourselves and one another, we can build movements that last.
From breath to body: Nurturing our inner power
At our Annual Forum, we talked a lot about power. We spoke of challenging the power that is often held over us in this modern world, as well as the ‘power with’ that we can weave together in solidarity, and the ‘power to’ that we reclaim through embracing our own agency. Yet, none of these forms of power can truly take root without cultivating the inner resource of the power within.
We tended to our inner power at our forum through wellbeing workshops such as ‘TUNE IN’, in which Simone Campa from Orchestra Terra Madre invited us to surrender to the medicine of sound. We entered this workshop with open minds and hearts, but still carrying the ordinary weight of daily worries and stresses. As the sounds moved through us, our bodies’ natural healing response stirred, and we were ushered into a state of clarity, flow, and renewal.
We journeyed further inward in the Embodied Power workshop, but this time through the gateway of the body. Through gentle bodywork and mindful movements, we rooted ourselves in the present and reconnected with our innermost values. Resilience emerged not as something hard or unyielding, but as a something that can be connected to with ease that aligns the individual with a wider collective strength.
Collective care: Wellbeing as a political and social practice
Having rooted ourselves in our own inner power, we were reminded that this grounding is never solitary. In the “Transforming Power Mapping for Organisations and Individuals" workshop, we were invited to step beyond the self and into the tapestry of the collective, where care and healing become not only a personal but also a profoundly political and social act.
Shining a light on how the feminist movement is deeply intertwined with the sharing of resources, support, and energy, the session was less about instruction and more about unity. Together, we sat in a circle of reflection, rest, and presence, holding space for one another. In this session, we came to realise that through collective care and healing we are all made stronger and more powerful than we could ever aspire to be alone.
From stillness to strength: Navigating external power dynamics with presence and purpose
Where other sessions showed us the importance of nurturing our own inner power and building collective strength through rest, care, and solidarity, the “Power and Presence: From Reactivity to Reflexivity and Regeneration” workshop drew our attention to another vital element of wellbeing: how we relate to power itself. In this session, we reflected on how easily movements can be swept into cycles of urgency and reactivity – burning bright, but then quickly burning out. Here, restoration became more than a moment to rest and recharge, it became a practice of renewal.
Returning to our breath and body through mindful practices, embodiment exercises, and collaborative dialogue, we were invited to reclaim our personal agency, strengthen inner resilience, and connect with a deeper source of presence. From that grounded state, we practiced ways of meeting external power imbalances with clarity, steadiness, and purpose. Through this practice, the turbulence of external power dynamics, the instability and the polarisation that shapes our modern political and social landscape no longer felt like storms to be feared, but tides that can be navigated with clarity and strength.
From pause to purpose: Wellbeing as the foundation of collective power
Wellbeing is not a break or a retreat from the work of change. It is the very foundation upon which movements are built. When we take moments to pause together, resting, reflecting, and caring for one another, we create the space to cultivate the power and connection needed to bring about lasting transformation. Change will come not from endless motion and activity, but from the collective strength of movements that know how to pause, and in pausing, find their power.
It is in the pause before action, the breath before speech, the stillness before movement – these quiet spaces are where strength is gathered. But no movement can thrive if the people driving it are running on empty.
Wellbeing is not a luxury, nor a retreat from activism – it is the very soil from which resilience, creativity, and collective power grow. At this year’s Annual Forum, we cultivated collective strength through a series of wellbeing sessions designed to ground, restore, and recharge participants. Together, they offered a simple but vital reminder: when we take a moment to pause and care for ourselves and one another, we can build movements that last.
From breath to body: Nurturing our inner power
At our Annual Forum, we talked a lot about power. We spoke of challenging the power that is often held over us in this modern world, as well as the ‘power with’ that we can weave together in solidarity, and the ‘power to’ that we reclaim through embracing our own agency. Yet, none of these forms of power can truly take root without cultivating the inner resource of the power within.
We tended to our inner power at our forum through wellbeing workshops such as ‘TUNE IN’, in which Simone Campa from Orchestra Terra Madre invited us to surrender to the medicine of sound. We entered this workshop with open minds and hearts, but still carrying the ordinary weight of daily worries and stresses. As the sounds moved through us, our bodies’ natural healing response stirred, and we were ushered into a state of clarity, flow, and renewal.
We journeyed further inward in the Embodied Power workshop, but this time through the gateway of the body. Through gentle bodywork and mindful movements, we rooted ourselves in the present and reconnected with our innermost values. Resilience emerged not as something hard or unyielding, but as a something that can be connected to with ease that aligns the individual with a wider collective strength.
Collective care: Wellbeing as a political and social practice
Having rooted ourselves in our own inner power, we were reminded that this grounding is never solitary. In the “Transforming Power Mapping for Organisations and Individuals" workshop, we were invited to step beyond the self and into the tapestry of the collective, where care and healing become not only a personal but also a profoundly political and social act.
Shining a light on how the feminist movement is deeply intertwined with the sharing of resources, support, and energy, the session was less about instruction and more about unity. Together, we sat in a circle of reflection, rest, and presence, holding space for one another. In this session, we came to realise that through collective care and healing we are all made stronger and more powerful than we could ever aspire to be alone.
From stillness to strength: Navigating external power dynamics with presence and purpose
Where other sessions showed us the importance of nurturing our own inner power and building collective strength through rest, care, and solidarity, the “Power and Presence: From Reactivity to Reflexivity and Regeneration” workshop drew our attention to another vital element of wellbeing: how we relate to power itself. In this session, we reflected on how easily movements can be swept into cycles of urgency and reactivity – burning bright, but then quickly burning out. Here, restoration became more than a moment to rest and recharge, it became a practice of renewal.
Returning to our breath and body through mindful practices, embodiment exercises, and collaborative dialogue, we were invited to reclaim our personal agency, strengthen inner resilience, and connect with a deeper source of presence. From that grounded state, we practiced ways of meeting external power imbalances with clarity, steadiness, and purpose. Through this practice, the turbulence of external power dynamics, the instability and the polarisation that shapes our modern political and social landscape no longer felt like storms to be feared, but tides that can be navigated with clarity and strength.
From pause to purpose: Wellbeing as the foundation of collective power
Wellbeing is not a break or a retreat from the work of change. It is the very foundation upon which movements are built. When we take moments to pause together, resting, reflecting, and caring for one another, we create the space to cultivate the power and connection needed to bring about lasting transformation. Change will come not from endless motion and activity, but from the collective strength of movements that know how to pause, and in pausing, find their power.
It is in the pause before action, the breath before speech, the stillness before movement – these quiet spaces are where strength is gathered. But no movement can thrive if the people driving it are running on empty.
Wellbeing is not a luxury, nor a retreat from activism – it is the very soil from which resilience, creativity, and collective power grow. At this year’s Annual Forum, we cultivated collective strength through a series of wellbeing sessions designed to ground, restore, and recharge participants. Together, they offered a simple but vital reminder: when we take a moment to pause and care for ourselves and one another, we can build movements that last.
From breath to body: Nurturing our inner power
At our Annual Forum, we talked a lot about power. We spoke of challenging the power that is often held over us in this modern world, as well as the ‘power with’ that we can weave together in solidarity, and the ‘power to’ that we reclaim through embracing our own agency. Yet, none of these forms of power can truly take root without cultivating the inner resource of the power within.
We tended to our inner power at our forum through wellbeing workshops such as ‘TUNE IN’, in which Simone Campa from Orchestra Terra Madre invited us to surrender to the medicine of sound. We entered this workshop with open minds and hearts, but still carrying the ordinary weight of daily worries and stresses. As the sounds moved through us, our bodies’ natural healing response stirred, and we were ushered into a state of clarity, flow, and renewal.
We journeyed further inward in the Embodied Power workshop, but this time through the gateway of the body. Through gentle bodywork and mindful movements, we rooted ourselves in the present and reconnected with our innermost values. Resilience emerged not as something hard or unyielding, but as a something that can be connected to with ease that aligns the individual with a wider collective strength.
Collective care: Wellbeing as a political and social practice
Having rooted ourselves in our own inner power, we were reminded that this grounding is never solitary. In the “Transforming Power Mapping for Organisations and Individuals" workshop, we were invited to step beyond the self and into the tapestry of the collective, where care and healing become not only a personal but also a profoundly political and social act.
Shining a light on how the feminist movement is deeply intertwined with the sharing of resources, support, and energy, the session was less about instruction and more about unity. Together, we sat in a circle of reflection, rest, and presence, holding space for one another. In this session, we came to realise that through collective care and healing we are all made stronger and more powerful than we could ever aspire to be alone.
From stillness to strength: Navigating external power dynamics with presence and purpose
Where other sessions showed us the importance of nurturing our own inner power and building collective strength through rest, care, and solidarity, the “Power and Presence: From Reactivity to Reflexivity and Regeneration” workshop drew our attention to another vital element of wellbeing: how we relate to power itself. In this session, we reflected on how easily movements can be swept into cycles of urgency and reactivity – burning bright, but then quickly burning out. Here, restoration became more than a moment to rest and recharge, it became a practice of renewal.
Returning to our breath and body through mindful practices, embodiment exercises, and collaborative dialogue, we were invited to reclaim our personal agency, strengthen inner resilience, and connect with a deeper source of presence. From that grounded state, we practiced ways of meeting external power imbalances with clarity, steadiness, and purpose. Through this practice, the turbulence of external power dynamics, the instability and the polarisation that shapes our modern political and social landscape no longer felt like storms to be feared, but tides that can be navigated with clarity and strength.
From pause to purpose: Wellbeing as the foundation of collective power
Wellbeing is not a break or a retreat from the work of change. It is the very foundation upon which movements are built. When we take moments to pause together, resting, reflecting, and caring for one another, we create the space to cultivate the power and connection needed to bring about lasting transformation. Change will come not from endless motion and activity, but from the collective strength of movements that know how to pause, and in pausing, find their power.
It is in the pause before action, the breath before speech, the stillness before movement – these quiet spaces are where strength is gathered. But no movement can thrive if the people driving it are running on empty.
Wellbeing is not a luxury, nor a retreat from activism – it is the very soil from which resilience, creativity, and collective power grow. At this year’s Annual Forum, we cultivated collective strength through a series of wellbeing sessions designed to ground, restore, and recharge participants. Together, they offered a simple but vital reminder: when we take a moment to pause and care for ourselves and one another, we can build movements that last.
From breath to body: Nurturing our inner power
At our Annual Forum, we talked a lot about power. We spoke of challenging the power that is often held over us in this modern world, as well as the ‘power with’ that we can weave together in solidarity, and the ‘power to’ that we reclaim through embracing our own agency. Yet, none of these forms of power can truly take root without cultivating the inner resource of the power within.
We tended to our inner power at our forum through wellbeing workshops such as ‘TUNE IN’, in which Simone Campa from Orchestra Terra Madre invited us to surrender to the medicine of sound. We entered this workshop with open minds and hearts, but still carrying the ordinary weight of daily worries and stresses. As the sounds moved through us, our bodies’ natural healing response stirred, and we were ushered into a state of clarity, flow, and renewal.
We journeyed further inward in the Embodied Power workshop, but this time through the gateway of the body. Through gentle bodywork and mindful movements, we rooted ourselves in the present and reconnected with our innermost values. Resilience emerged not as something hard or unyielding, but as a something that can be connected to with ease that aligns the individual with a wider collective strength.
Collective care: Wellbeing as a political and social practice
Having rooted ourselves in our own inner power, we were reminded that this grounding is never solitary. In the “Transforming Power Mapping for Organisations and Individuals" workshop, we were invited to step beyond the self and into the tapestry of the collective, where care and healing become not only a personal but also a profoundly political and social act.
Shining a light on how the feminist movement is deeply intertwined with the sharing of resources, support, and energy, the session was less about instruction and more about unity. Together, we sat in a circle of reflection, rest, and presence, holding space for one another. In this session, we came to realise that through collective care and healing we are all made stronger and more powerful than we could ever aspire to be alone.
From stillness to strength: Navigating external power dynamics with presence and purpose
Where other sessions showed us the importance of nurturing our own inner power and building collective strength through rest, care, and solidarity, the “Power and Presence: From Reactivity to Reflexivity and Regeneration” workshop drew our attention to another vital element of wellbeing: how we relate to power itself. In this session, we reflected on how easily movements can be swept into cycles of urgency and reactivity – burning bright, but then quickly burning out. Here, restoration became more than a moment to rest and recharge, it became a practice of renewal.
Returning to our breath and body through mindful practices, embodiment exercises, and collaborative dialogue, we were invited to reclaim our personal agency, strengthen inner resilience, and connect with a deeper source of presence. From that grounded state, we practiced ways of meeting external power imbalances with clarity, steadiness, and purpose. Through this practice, the turbulence of external power dynamics, the instability and the polarisation that shapes our modern political and social landscape no longer felt like storms to be feared, but tides that can be navigated with clarity and strength.
From pause to purpose: Wellbeing as the foundation of collective power
Wellbeing is not a break or a retreat from the work of change. It is the very foundation upon which movements are built. When we take moments to pause together, resting, reflecting, and caring for one another, we create the space to cultivate the power and connection needed to bring about lasting transformation. Change will come not from endless motion and activity, but from the collective strength of movements that know how to pause, and in pausing, find their power.
It is in the pause before action, the breath before speech, the stillness before movement – these quiet spaces are where strength is gathered. But no movement can thrive if the people driving it are running on empty.
Wellbeing is not a luxury, nor a retreat from activism – it is the very soil from which resilience, creativity, and collective power grow. At this year’s Annual Forum, we cultivated collective strength through a series of wellbeing sessions designed to ground, restore, and recharge participants. Together, they offered a simple but vital reminder: when we take a moment to pause and care for ourselves and one another, we can build movements that last.
From breath to body: Nurturing our inner power
At our Annual Forum, we talked a lot about power. We spoke of challenging the power that is often held over us in this modern world, as well as the ‘power with’ that we can weave together in solidarity, and the ‘power to’ that we reclaim through embracing our own agency. Yet, none of these forms of power can truly take root without cultivating the inner resource of the power within.
We tended to our inner power at our forum through wellbeing workshops such as ‘TUNE IN’, in which Simone Campa from Orchestra Terra Madre invited us to surrender to the medicine of sound. We entered this workshop with open minds and hearts, but still carrying the ordinary weight of daily worries and stresses. As the sounds moved through us, our bodies’ natural healing response stirred, and we were ushered into a state of clarity, flow, and renewal.
We journeyed further inward in the Embodied Power workshop, but this time through the gateway of the body. Through gentle bodywork and mindful movements, we rooted ourselves in the present and reconnected with our innermost values. Resilience emerged not as something hard or unyielding, but as a something that can be connected to with ease that aligns the individual with a wider collective strength.
Collective care: Wellbeing as a political and social practice
Having rooted ourselves in our own inner power, we were reminded that this grounding is never solitary. In the “Transforming Power Mapping for Organisations and Individuals" workshop, we were invited to step beyond the self and into the tapestry of the collective, where care and healing become not only a personal but also a profoundly political and social act.
Shining a light on how the feminist movement is deeply intertwined with the sharing of resources, support, and energy, the session was less about instruction and more about unity. Together, we sat in a circle of reflection, rest, and presence, holding space for one another. In this session, we came to realise that through collective care and healing we are all made stronger and more powerful than we could ever aspire to be alone.
From stillness to strength: Navigating external power dynamics with presence and purpose
Where other sessions showed us the importance of nurturing our own inner power and building collective strength through rest, care, and solidarity, the “Power and Presence: From Reactivity to Reflexivity and Regeneration” workshop drew our attention to another vital element of wellbeing: how we relate to power itself. In this session, we reflected on how easily movements can be swept into cycles of urgency and reactivity – burning bright, but then quickly burning out. Here, restoration became more than a moment to rest and recharge, it became a practice of renewal.
Returning to our breath and body through mindful practices, embodiment exercises, and collaborative dialogue, we were invited to reclaim our personal agency, strengthen inner resilience, and connect with a deeper source of presence. From that grounded state, we practiced ways of meeting external power imbalances with clarity, steadiness, and purpose. Through this practice, the turbulence of external power dynamics, the instability and the polarisation that shapes our modern political and social landscape no longer felt like storms to be feared, but tides that can be navigated with clarity and strength.
From pause to purpose: Wellbeing as the foundation of collective power
Wellbeing is not a break or a retreat from the work of change. It is the very foundation upon which movements are built. When we take moments to pause together, resting, reflecting, and caring for one another, we create the space to cultivate the power and connection needed to bring about lasting transformation. Change will come not from endless motion and activity, but from the collective strength of movements that know how to pause, and in pausing, find their power.
It is in the pause before action, the breath before speech, the stillness before movement – these quiet spaces are where strength is gathered. But no movement can thrive if the people driving it are running on empty.
Wellbeing is not a luxury, nor a retreat from activism – it is the very soil from which resilience, creativity, and collective power grow. At this year’s Annual Forum, we cultivated collective strength through a series of wellbeing sessions designed to ground, restore, and recharge participants. Together, they offered a simple but vital reminder: when we take a moment to pause and care for ourselves and one another, we can build movements that last.
From breath to body: Nurturing our inner power
At our Annual Forum, we talked a lot about power. We spoke of challenging the power that is often held over us in this modern world, as well as the ‘power with’ that we can weave together in solidarity, and the ‘power to’ that we reclaim through embracing our own agency. Yet, none of these forms of power can truly take root without cultivating the inner resource of the power within.
We tended to our inner power at our forum through wellbeing workshops such as ‘TUNE IN’, in which Simone Campa from Orchestra Terra Madre invited us to surrender to the medicine of sound. We entered this workshop with open minds and hearts, but still carrying the ordinary weight of daily worries and stresses. As the sounds moved through us, our bodies’ natural healing response stirred, and we were ushered into a state of clarity, flow, and renewal.
We journeyed further inward in the Embodied Power workshop, but this time through the gateway of the body. Through gentle bodywork and mindful movements, we rooted ourselves in the present and reconnected with our innermost values. Resilience emerged not as something hard or unyielding, but as a something that can be connected to with ease that aligns the individual with a wider collective strength.
Collective care: Wellbeing as a political and social practice
Having rooted ourselves in our own inner power, we were reminded that this grounding is never solitary. In the “Transforming Power Mapping for Organisations and Individuals" workshop, we were invited to step beyond the self and into the tapestry of the collective, where care and healing become not only a personal but also a profoundly political and social act.
Shining a light on how the feminist movement is deeply intertwined with the sharing of resources, support, and energy, the session was less about instruction and more about unity. Together, we sat in a circle of reflection, rest, and presence, holding space for one another. In this session, we came to realise that through collective care and healing we are all made stronger and more powerful than we could ever aspire to be alone.
From stillness to strength: Navigating external power dynamics with presence and purpose
Where other sessions showed us the importance of nurturing our own inner power and building collective strength through rest, care, and solidarity, the “Power and Presence: From Reactivity to Reflexivity and Regeneration” workshop drew our attention to another vital element of wellbeing: how we relate to power itself. In this session, we reflected on how easily movements can be swept into cycles of urgency and reactivity – burning bright, but then quickly burning out. Here, restoration became more than a moment to rest and recharge, it became a practice of renewal.
Returning to our breath and body through mindful practices, embodiment exercises, and collaborative dialogue, we were invited to reclaim our personal agency, strengthen inner resilience, and connect with a deeper source of presence. From that grounded state, we practiced ways of meeting external power imbalances with clarity, steadiness, and purpose. Through this practice, the turbulence of external power dynamics, the instability and the polarisation that shapes our modern political and social landscape no longer felt like storms to be feared, but tides that can be navigated with clarity and strength.
From pause to purpose: Wellbeing as the foundation of collective power
Wellbeing is not a break or a retreat from the work of change. It is the very foundation upon which movements are built. When we take moments to pause together, resting, reflecting, and caring for one another, we create the space to cultivate the power and connection needed to bring about lasting transformation. Change will come not from endless motion and activity, but from the collective strength of movements that know how to pause, and in pausing, find their power.
It is in the pause before action, the breath before speech, the stillness before movement – these quiet spaces are where strength is gathered. But no movement can thrive if the people driving it are running on empty.
Wellbeing is not a luxury, nor a retreat from activism – it is the very soil from which resilience, creativity, and collective power grow. At this year’s Annual Forum, we cultivated collective strength through a series of wellbeing sessions designed to ground, restore, and recharge participants. Together, they offered a simple but vital reminder: when we take a moment to pause and care for ourselves and one another, we can build movements that last.
From breath to body: Nurturing our inner power
At our Annual Forum, we talked a lot about power. We spoke of challenging the power that is often held over us in this modern world, as well as the ‘power with’ that we can weave together in solidarity, and the ‘power to’ that we reclaim through embracing our own agency. Yet, none of these forms of power can truly take root without cultivating the inner resource of the power within.
We tended to our inner power at our forum through wellbeing workshops such as ‘TUNE IN’, in which Simone Campa from Orchestra Terra Madre invited us to surrender to the medicine of sound. We entered this workshop with open minds and hearts, but still carrying the ordinary weight of daily worries and stresses. As the sounds moved through us, our bodies’ natural healing response stirred, and we were ushered into a state of clarity, flow, and renewal.
We journeyed further inward in the Embodied Power workshop, but this time through the gateway of the body. Through gentle bodywork and mindful movements, we rooted ourselves in the present and reconnected with our innermost values. Resilience emerged not as something hard or unyielding, but as a something that can be connected to with ease that aligns the individual with a wider collective strength.
Collective care: Wellbeing as a political and social practice
Having rooted ourselves in our own inner power, we were reminded that this grounding is never solitary. In the “Transforming Power Mapping for Organisations and Individuals" workshop, we were invited to step beyond the self and into the tapestry of the collective, where care and healing become not only a personal but also a profoundly political and social act.
Shining a light on how the feminist movement is deeply intertwined with the sharing of resources, support, and energy, the session was less about instruction and more about unity. Together, we sat in a circle of reflection, rest, and presence, holding space for one another. In this session, we came to realise that through collective care and healing we are all made stronger and more powerful than we could ever aspire to be alone.
From stillness to strength: Navigating external power dynamics with presence and purpose
Where other sessions showed us the importance of nurturing our own inner power and building collective strength through rest, care, and solidarity, the “Power and Presence: From Reactivity to Reflexivity and Regeneration” workshop drew our attention to another vital element of wellbeing: how we relate to power itself. In this session, we reflected on how easily movements can be swept into cycles of urgency and reactivity – burning bright, but then quickly burning out. Here, restoration became more than a moment to rest and recharge, it became a practice of renewal.
Returning to our breath and body through mindful practices, embodiment exercises, and collaborative dialogue, we were invited to reclaim our personal agency, strengthen inner resilience, and connect with a deeper source of presence. From that grounded state, we practiced ways of meeting external power imbalances with clarity, steadiness, and purpose. Through this practice, the turbulence of external power dynamics, the instability and the polarisation that shapes our modern political and social landscape no longer felt like storms to be feared, but tides that can be navigated with clarity and strength.
From pause to purpose: Wellbeing as the foundation of collective power
Wellbeing is not a break or a retreat from the work of change. It is the very foundation upon which movements are built. When we take moments to pause together, resting, reflecting, and caring for one another, we create the space to cultivate the power and connection needed to bring about lasting transformation. Change will come not from endless motion and activity, but from the collective strength of movements that know how to pause, and in pausing, find their power.
It is in the pause before action, the breath before speech, the stillness before movement – these quiet spaces are where strength is gathered. But no movement can thrive if the people driving it are running on empty.
Wellbeing is not a luxury, nor a retreat from activism – it is the very soil from which resilience, creativity, and collective power grow. At this year’s Annual Forum, we cultivated collective strength through a series of wellbeing sessions designed to ground, restore, and recharge participants. Together, they offered a simple but vital reminder: when we take a moment to pause and care for ourselves and one another, we can build movements that last.
From breath to body: Nurturing our inner power
At our Annual Forum, we talked a lot about power. We spoke of challenging the power that is often held over us in this modern world, as well as the ‘power with’ that we can weave together in solidarity, and the ‘power to’ that we reclaim through embracing our own agency. Yet, none of these forms of power can truly take root without cultivating the inner resource of the power within.
We tended to our inner power at our forum through wellbeing workshops such as ‘TUNE IN’, in which Simone Campa from Orchestra Terra Madre invited us to surrender to the medicine of sound. We entered this workshop with open minds and hearts, but still carrying the ordinary weight of daily worries and stresses. As the sounds moved through us, our bodies’ natural healing response stirred, and we were ushered into a state of clarity, flow, and renewal.
We journeyed further inward in the Embodied Power workshop, but this time through the gateway of the body. Through gentle bodywork and mindful movements, we rooted ourselves in the present and reconnected with our innermost values. Resilience emerged not as something hard or unyielding, but as a something that can be connected to with ease that aligns the individual with a wider collective strength.
Collective care: Wellbeing as a political and social practice
Having rooted ourselves in our own inner power, we were reminded that this grounding is never solitary. In the “Transforming Power Mapping for Organisations and Individuals" workshop, we were invited to step beyond the self and into the tapestry of the collective, where care and healing become not only a personal but also a profoundly political and social act.
Shining a light on how the feminist movement is deeply intertwined with the sharing of resources, support, and energy, the session was less about instruction and more about unity. Together, we sat in a circle of reflection, rest, and presence, holding space for one another. In this session, we came to realise that through collective care and healing we are all made stronger and more powerful than we could ever aspire to be alone.
From stillness to strength: Navigating external power dynamics with presence and purpose
Where other sessions showed us the importance of nurturing our own inner power and building collective strength through rest, care, and solidarity, the “Power and Presence: From Reactivity to Reflexivity and Regeneration” workshop drew our attention to another vital element of wellbeing: how we relate to power itself. In this session, we reflected on how easily movements can be swept into cycles of urgency and reactivity – burning bright, but then quickly burning out. Here, restoration became more than a moment to rest and recharge, it became a practice of renewal.
Returning to our breath and body through mindful practices, embodiment exercises, and collaborative dialogue, we were invited to reclaim our personal agency, strengthen inner resilience, and connect with a deeper source of presence. From that grounded state, we practiced ways of meeting external power imbalances with clarity, steadiness, and purpose. Through this practice, the turbulence of external power dynamics, the instability and the polarisation that shapes our modern political and social landscape no longer felt like storms to be feared, but tides that can be navigated with clarity and strength.
From pause to purpose: Wellbeing as the foundation of collective power
Wellbeing is not a break or a retreat from the work of change. It is the very foundation upon which movements are built. When we take moments to pause together, resting, reflecting, and caring for one another, we create the space to cultivate the power and connection needed to bring about lasting transformation. Change will come not from endless motion and activity, but from the collective strength of movements that know how to pause, and in pausing, find their power.
It is in the pause before action, the breath before speech, the stillness before movement – these quiet spaces are where strength is gathered. But no movement can thrive if the people driving it are running on empty.
Wellbeing is not a luxury, nor a retreat from activism – it is the very soil from which resilience, creativity, and collective power grow. At this year’s Annual Forum, we cultivated collective strength through a series of wellbeing sessions designed to ground, restore, and recharge participants. Together, they offered a simple but vital reminder: when we take a moment to pause and care for ourselves and one another, we can build movements that last.
From breath to body: Nurturing our inner power
At our Annual Forum, we talked a lot about power. We spoke of challenging the power that is often held over us in this modern world, as well as the ‘power with’ that we can weave together in solidarity, and the ‘power to’ that we reclaim through embracing our own agency. Yet, none of these forms of power can truly take root without cultivating the inner resource of the power within.
We tended to our inner power at our forum through wellbeing workshops such as ‘TUNE IN’, in which Simone Campa from Orchestra Terra Madre invited us to surrender to the medicine of sound. We entered this workshop with open minds and hearts, but still carrying the ordinary weight of daily worries and stresses. As the sounds moved through us, our bodies’ natural healing response stirred, and we were ushered into a state of clarity, flow, and renewal.
We journeyed further inward in the Embodied Power workshop, but this time through the gateway of the body. Through gentle bodywork and mindful movements, we rooted ourselves in the present and reconnected with our innermost values. Resilience emerged not as something hard or unyielding, but as a something that can be connected to with ease that aligns the individual with a wider collective strength.
Collective care: Wellbeing as a political and social practice
Having rooted ourselves in our own inner power, we were reminded that this grounding is never solitary. In the “Transforming Power Mapping for Organisations and Individuals" workshop, we were invited to step beyond the self and into the tapestry of the collective, where care and healing become not only a personal but also a profoundly political and social act.
Shining a light on how the feminist movement is deeply intertwined with the sharing of resources, support, and energy, the session was less about instruction and more about unity. Together, we sat in a circle of reflection, rest, and presence, holding space for one another. In this session, we came to realise that through collective care and healing we are all made stronger and more powerful than we could ever aspire to be alone.
From stillness to strength: Navigating external power dynamics with presence and purpose
Where other sessions showed us the importance of nurturing our own inner power and building collective strength through rest, care, and solidarity, the “Power and Presence: From Reactivity to Reflexivity and Regeneration” workshop drew our attention to another vital element of wellbeing: how we relate to power itself. In this session, we reflected on how easily movements can be swept into cycles of urgency and reactivity – burning bright, but then quickly burning out. Here, restoration became more than a moment to rest and recharge, it became a practice of renewal.
Returning to our breath and body through mindful practices, embodiment exercises, and collaborative dialogue, we were invited to reclaim our personal agency, strengthen inner resilience, and connect with a deeper source of presence. From that grounded state, we practiced ways of meeting external power imbalances with clarity, steadiness, and purpose. Through this practice, the turbulence of external power dynamics, the instability and the polarisation that shapes our modern political and social landscape no longer felt like storms to be feared, but tides that can be navigated with clarity and strength.
From pause to purpose: Wellbeing as the foundation of collective power
Wellbeing is not a break or a retreat from the work of change. It is the very foundation upon which movements are built. When we take moments to pause together, resting, reflecting, and caring for one another, we create the space to cultivate the power and connection needed to bring about lasting transformation. Change will come not from endless motion and activity, but from the collective strength of movements that know how to pause, and in pausing, find their power.
It is in the pause before action, the breath before speech, the stillness before movement – these quiet spaces are where strength is gathered. But no movement can thrive if the people driving it are running on empty.
Wellbeing is not a luxury, nor a retreat from activism – it is the very soil from which resilience, creativity, and collective power grow. At this year’s Annual Forum, we cultivated collective strength through a series of wellbeing sessions designed to ground, restore, and recharge participants. Together, they offered a simple but vital reminder: when we take a moment to pause and care for ourselves and one another, we can build movements that last.
From breath to body: Nurturing our inner power
At our Annual Forum, we talked a lot about power. We spoke of challenging the power that is often held over us in this modern world, as well as the ‘power with’ that we can weave together in solidarity, and the ‘power to’ that we reclaim through embracing our own agency. Yet, none of these forms of power can truly take root without cultivating the inner resource of the power within.
We tended to our inner power at our forum through wellbeing workshops such as ‘TUNE IN’, in which Simone Campa from Orchestra Terra Madre invited us to surrender to the medicine of sound. We entered this workshop with open minds and hearts, but still carrying the ordinary weight of daily worries and stresses. As the sounds moved through us, our bodies’ natural healing response stirred, and we were ushered into a state of clarity, flow, and renewal.
We journeyed further inward in the Embodied Power workshop, but this time through the gateway of the body. Through gentle bodywork and mindful movements, we rooted ourselves in the present and reconnected with our innermost values. Resilience emerged not as something hard or unyielding, but as a something that can be connected to with ease that aligns the individual with a wider collective strength.
Collective care: Wellbeing as a political and social practice
Having rooted ourselves in our own inner power, we were reminded that this grounding is never solitary. In the “Transforming Power Mapping for Organisations and Individuals" workshop, we were invited to step beyond the self and into the tapestry of the collective, where care and healing become not only a personal but also a profoundly political and social act.
Shining a light on how the feminist movement is deeply intertwined with the sharing of resources, support, and energy, the session was less about instruction and more about unity. Together, we sat in a circle of reflection, rest, and presence, holding space for one another. In this session, we came to realise that through collective care and healing we are all made stronger and more powerful than we could ever aspire to be alone.
From stillness to strength: Navigating external power dynamics with presence and purpose
Where other sessions showed us the importance of nurturing our own inner power and building collective strength through rest, care, and solidarity, the “Power and Presence: From Reactivity to Reflexivity and Regeneration” workshop drew our attention to another vital element of wellbeing: how we relate to power itself. In this session, we reflected on how easily movements can be swept into cycles of urgency and reactivity – burning bright, but then quickly burning out. Here, restoration became more than a moment to rest and recharge, it became a practice of renewal.
Returning to our breath and body through mindful practices, embodiment exercises, and collaborative dialogue, we were invited to reclaim our personal agency, strengthen inner resilience, and connect with a deeper source of presence. From that grounded state, we practiced ways of meeting external power imbalances with clarity, steadiness, and purpose. Through this practice, the turbulence of external power dynamics, the instability and the polarisation that shapes our modern political and social landscape no longer felt like storms to be feared, but tides that can be navigated with clarity and strength.
From pause to purpose: Wellbeing as the foundation of collective power
Wellbeing is not a break or a retreat from the work of change. It is the very foundation upon which movements are built. When we take moments to pause together, resting, reflecting, and caring for one another, we create the space to cultivate the power and connection needed to bring about lasting transformation. Change will come not from endless motion and activity, but from the collective strength of movements that know how to pause, and in pausing, find their power.
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