This year, World Healing Day coincides with Anzac Day. In a time marked by profound global conflict, how might we best equip ourselves to be in service of a more loving and humane world?

You are warmly invited to a community peace ritual honouring those affected by wars past and present, and acknowledging intergenerational wounds that may have been passed down. Tending to our own ancestral lineages can loosen the cycles of emotional repression and harm, freeing energy for wiser, more compassionate ways of relating — with ourselves, with others, and beyond.

Franz Kafka wrote, "A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us". Ritual, too, can unfreeze this sea — through the simple human warmth of being together, feeling what matters, and tending to it in relationship with ourselves, each other, our ancestors, Country, and all of life. 

We are all affected by war in different ways and to differing degrees. Even without personal experience, its presence is inescapable. This ritual is non-denominational, drawing on somatic practice, meditation, various wisdom traditions, art and literature. All are welcome. 

The invitation is to oxygenate and tenderise the heart, elbow out space for fellow feeling, free up voice boxes and bodies to express some of what has been held back, so we are more resourced to meet our lives and those of others with clarity and kindness. Through guided meditation, myth, poetry, and collective practice, we will gather warmth — for ourselves, for those who came before us, and for those who need it now.

“We were riding through frozen fields in a wagon at dawn. A red wing rose in darkness.” - Czeslaw Milosz