Wellbeing is a right, not a privilege.

Collective Being is dismantling barriers to wellbeing. We facilitate body-based mindfulness programs that are trauma-sensitive, mental health aware, and gender and culture responsive.

Our approach

Trauma-sensitive

We apply an evidence-based, trauma-sensitive approach to our work with communities. We recognise the structural and systemic causes of trauma, and honour the unique needs of individuals who access our services. We take pride in a person-centred approach that is adaptive, responsive and flexible.

Mental health aware

We recognise that mental health is complex, and that in our current hyper-individualised society, “wellness” can feel out of reach for many of us. Our programs and offerings are delivered in small group settings, honouring the role of social connection in mental health, and sharing accessible and adaptable somatic practices for stress relief, self-regulation and connection.

Gender + culture responsive

We honour and support all gender and cultural identities. We are experienced in collaborating with interpreters, and with adapting our program delivery to ensure cultural safety. We are an LGBTQIA+ affirming organisation.

Join us on Sunday 2nd June 2024 for our Annual Fundraiser! A cosy afternoon of meditation, restorative movement and live performance with the Collective Being team and special guest Aarti Jadu, raising funds to increase our impact in community. Bookings essential.

Amidst an ever-growing demand for our offerings, we are proud to announce our Community Wellbeing Fund: free and subsidised trauma-sensitive wellbeing programs for under-resourced organisations and community groups. Limited places available, expressions of interest are open now.  

Our services

  • Our Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Program is specifically designed for complex and clinical settings. Informed by empirically-validated approaches to facilitation and drawing on six years of service delivery experience across hospital, mental health and survivor-oriented sectors, our facilitators are highly skilled at adapting programs to meet the needs of specific client groups.

  • Soma Play is a therapeutic somatic program that encourages creativity, play, movement and mindfulness – all skills that support children to be healthy, resilient and connected. This trauma-informed program is for children aged 5-12 years.

  • Move & Soothe is a therapeutic groupwork program that supports young people aged 13 - 25 to explore strategies for self-regulation, stress-relief and social connection. Integrating somatics, mindfulness, movement and pyschoeducation, Move & Soothe is co-designed with young people to meet their wellbeing needs.

  • Our Team Wellbeing Programs are specifically designed for organisational staff or teams who work in complex or high-stress environments.

    Informed by emerging research regarding stress relief and wellbeing, our Team Wellbeing sessions are designed to share somatic education and resources that support connection and resilience.

  • Drawing on six years of delivery experience in community, we train professionals in trauma-informed and applied somatic approaches to wellbeing.

    Reach out to us directly to learn more about upcoming public and bespoke options.

  • "My 8-year-old daughter loved the practices and does them at home as a calming exercise”

    FaPMI Peninsula Health family program participant.

  • "I was very excited. I look forward to the start. I enjoyed... I’m definitely calm by the end. I needed this. I learned to experience calmness"

    Foundation House Arabic Speaking Women's Group

  • "I felt stressed, so I tried a shape we had used in the program, and it helped me"

    PARC program at St Vincent’s Hospital