The ecological crisis has emerged from a deeper cultural crisis of story, belonging, and imagination. Our old, inherited narratives are exhausting the movement. This is an essential workshop for changemakers to learn how to identify the stories that are holding us back and collectively create and share new stories worthy of the best of us. Discover how stories can become sources of wisdom, identity, and ritual for effective change.

Her session is around eco-anxiety as the problem / symptom, but is mostly about addressing it through understanding the stories that cause that and learning how to shift them.

Join us to explore how we might create and share stories worthy of the best of us.

Trish Hansen works across arts, culture, health, design and community. Based on Kaurna Country, she leads ReWonder, works in Arts in Health, and writes children’s fiction. Shaped by the oceans and the spirit of seafaring, through her father’s Norse ancestry and her mother’s Celtic roots in wild places - Trish grew up on the unceded lands of the Kaurna People, on Tarntanya Country, South Australia, with the red gums along the creek.

What’s the Story? Tending stories worthy of the best of us The ecological crisis has emerged from a deeper cultural crisis: a crisis of story, belonging, imagination, and relationship.

Many of the stories we have inherited are exhausting us. Ways of living shaped by narratives told over centuries, and by industry-centric worldviews cultivated over millennia, are no longer serving us or the planet.

Now, as we live mostly among strangers, often with vastly different ways of seeing the world, beyond the coherence of kinship, we face unprecedented challenges of extraordinary scale and complexity together.

We have never done this before. Not in the 4.5 billion years it has taken for life to evolve to this moment.

And yet, other stories are stirring.

Stories of interdependence. Stories of enoughness. Stories of courage, reciprocity, and care. Stories that remember we are part of the living world.

This session offers participants a space to reconnect with what they love and to honour what hurts. It invites us to consider that eco-anxiety may not be pathology, but a natural response when what we care about is under threat. From that place, together we will explore:

What stories are exhausting us? What stories are asking to emerge? What stories hold shared meaning? What stories are coherent enough to trust? How might stories become sources of wisdom, identity, and ritual? What stories might we tend now? The planet is not failing us - our stories are. It’s all cultural.