Earth Circle Daylong
Women's Retreat.

Marion Miller is a qualified Coach, Mindfulness Teacher, Eco Therapist and Psychotherapist working in private practice and as a senior consultant for a large organisation in the CBD. She received a formal education and training including a Bachelor of Counselling (Coaching) from ACAP, a Diploma in Coaching, and certification in Mindfulness MBSR/MBCT and Ecotherapy. Her early life began in Tasmania, the daughter of a migrant mother from Hamburg Germany, whose family settled in northern Tasmania, her father, a farmer on the remote King Island. These years instilled a strong connection to the natural world. Marion was introduced to meditation by her mother in her early 20s. For more than ten years she has sat Vipassana retreats with the Insight Meditation tradition. She is currently involved in a four year Dharma teacher training under the mentorship and supervision of senior teacher Subhana Beghazi. She has trained in Jungian arts approaches to therapy and personal development. An active environmentalist, Marion contributes to local climate projects in Stonnington. She is involved in training retreats and practitioner PD. Marion is a graduate of the Environmental Champion Program and an active member of Psychology for Climate Change, and PACFA. As an artist, Marion is dedicating more time to her creative practice and learning to listen more deeply to her artistic impulses. Based in her studio in Glen Iris, she is currently exploring eco-feminism through painting and sculpture and is part of an active art collective. At home, Marion and her husband are committed to conscious living. Together, they aspire to create an eco retreat for land care, regenerative living and leadership and creative wellbeing retreats. They’re raising four daughters and growing a small community with the wish to help safeguard the future for the earth, human and non humans alike.

Arian Young is an engaged Buddhist, Spiritual Grief Counsellor and Facilitator in Grief Rituals, whose 25 year background is in the Intuitive Healing Arts of Traditional Chinese Medicine. A former Buddhist nun, she is an Asian-Australian born Narrm, Melbourne, settler from Toi San and Sun Wui ancestry, China. Her cultural roots influence historical and ancestral approaches as an elder, helping communities to navigate the wild rapids of sorrow, heartbreak and its immense beauty in a troubled, complex changing world. Caring for Country on unceded Bunurong and Woiwurrung lands in the Dandenong Ranges/Yarra Valley, she grows food with her partner in a botanical forest that has its own micro-climate rich in native birds, plants and trees. Exploring the lost heart of humanity through the arts, Arian writes, paints, plays with voice and movement, including improvisation and performative spoken word through collaborative theatre that has included a performance installation on ageing, culture, wisdom and eldership. She studied (un)authorised history, living and dying well with cultural activist, story teller and farmer, Stephen Jenkinson at the Orphan Wisdom School, Canada, UK, Bali. Her life-centred practices in creativity help to build the lost art of connection, community and belonging; something our ancestors often knew how to do very well. You can read more about Arian Young's work here https://www.arianyoung.au/