AustraliaBIO:
YWW facilitates the exploration of meaning and connection through contemplation, conversation, creative exercises, and ritual for individuals and groups across diverse settings. While the work is primarily guided by the needs of others, YWW draws inspiration from ecocentric and nature-based philosophies.
He currently heads the spiritual and bereavement care services in a palliative care centre in Victoria and previously, had a varied career, including building cyborgs, conducting research, and coordinating humanitarian projects. He also has a passion for potent and emergent musical side endeavours.
SYNOPSIS:
The workshop follows a ritual framework and involves identifying and speaking for an other-than-human life form. It includes an imaginary journey to meet the beneficiary of one’s offerings, the creation of a representational facial/head-dress, the empathetic channeling of the chosen beings’ experience through movement and an opportunity to communicate its message to the group and the greater world. In the words of the originator Joanna Macey, ‘The ritual serves to help us acknowledge and give voice to the suffering of our world. It also serves, in equal measure, to help us experience the beauty and power of our interconnectedness with all life.