The Recollective

Religion and theology have been weilded to cause harm, erasure, injury, and silence. These pause moments (trauma-informed, feminist/anti-clerical, and decolonising in posture and delivery) seek to offer "safe sips" for encounter and personal silent reflection that allow for response to and engagment with critical issues facing our communities and world. 2026 dates: 29 March, 31 May, 30 August.

Sewing is a practice with cultural, historical, environmental and spiritual variants that has functioned to improve the wellbeing of people and communities. My Mother and Grandmother were sewing teachers who used needles and thread to mend, create and care for their community. By inviting allcomers to this practice we invoke intergenerational knowing, consideration and respect for the earth, and the communal practices that hold us together in these divided times.

We will be at the Gendered Violence conference 11-13 February offering supportive space in the event required in response to the difficult themes being raised.

As part of the Creative Recovery Network we are big on offering customised creative responses to concerns facing our communities and world that restore and build resiliency.