Kellogg’s Great Round (Of Mandala) reflects the dynamic relationship between the ego, the centre of consciousness, and Self, the centre of the whole psyche residing in the unconscious” “The twelve stages of the Great Round are a schema for describing a continuous, cyclical pattern of personal growth…as the spiraling stages are experienced again and again… Continue reading Great Round of Mandala
New Beginnings: Great Round of Mandala October 2026 If we look around us in this time of year, mid Spring, there are new beginnings happening everywhere, new fruit, new flowers, new baby lambs and new baby chicks. I was lucky enough in Port Macquarie, NSW, in August, to see from a whale boat many playful… Continue reading New Beginnings
The Great Round of Mandala is a map and a compass to teach us more about cyclical wisdom, how to live in right relationship with earth’s cycles and seasons and to deepen our felt-sense of the interbeing, the web of reciprocity, between me and the more-than -human beings
https://journal.workthatreconnects.org/2026/03/05/ancestral-grief-ceremony/Here is an article I wrote recently in the Deep Times Journal about my personal experience with Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Ancestral Lineage Healing, wondering if it resonates with you? 🙂
A poem I wrote about Grief and the gifts of Grief at the Dark Alchemy of Embodied Prayer retreat in Kangaroo Valley NSW January 2026 with SoulCraft Australia NZ Sacred Tears, Sacred Being – by Sara Phillips each tear of grief is like a drop of rain on hot stone, or like a summer shower,… Continue reading Sacred Tears Sacred Being
FREE NATURE-BASED MINDFULNESS WORKSHOP Date: 9 August 2025 Time: 10.00am - 3.00pm Venue: Pelverata Memorial Hall, 1237 Pelverata Rd, Pelverata Morning tea and a light lunch will be provided. Who For: Anyone wishing to learn nature-based mindfulness practices to support themselves and their community. We encourage paid and unpaid care workers. This workshop is part of a larger project… Continue reading Nature-based Mindfulness Workshop
Do you care deeply for Earth and feel a sense of courage, passion, motivation and curiousity about what are the possibilities for change in the way we relate to and care for our Earth? Are you keen to cultivate a sense of hope and take hopeful action within your community? Find out more about Deep Ecology and Active Hope
This month in our Deep Parts Wisdom circle online we dived into what we keep in the shadows, our exiled emotions ....(if our other protective parts let us!) We explored some of our exiled emotions by creating a Truth Mandala, (one of Joanna Macy's important grief rituals in the Work that Reconnects / Deep Ecology)… Continue reading The Importance of Ritual: Truth Mandala
IFS believes that each of us is an ecosystem of parts, and when all parts are in harmony, the ecosystem runs smoothly, yet when we are taken over by one or more parts we can feel out of balance or stuck or in chaos or not even recognize ourselves, as we sometimes swing wildly from one emotion to another.
These Deep Parts Wisdom Circles are IFS-informed and are created to support you to NOTICE your parts, get to KNOW them, and find out what they NEED in order for you to access more Self energy, more integration, more Wholeness, more Soul. We will do this using mindfulness, embodied movement/dance, explore wise-nature archetypes (from Wild Mind by Bill Plotkin), visualisation and creative expression as well as the healing power of sharing in a sacred safe circle of like-minded souls.
