We are living in a great unraveling—systems decaying, patterns collapsing, earth warming beneath our feet.
Within this decomposition, something is stirring.
Love and Compost: life in decay is for those ready to compost the old and tend to what wants to emerge. Guided by mātauranga Māori, embodiment, the more than human world and deep systems, we invite you to feel your feet on the whenua, and your heart in the decay of this moment.
How might we be in right relationship with change?
What happens when we stop trying to fix dying systems—and instead start listening for the life already pulsing beneath them?
Love and Compost: 5-7 December 2025
Omori, Taupō
Join us for a weekend of grounded exploration
and joyful fermentation on the whenua of Ngāti Tūwharetoa.
Day 1 | Letting rot ground us
Friday evening
We begin by arriving—into our bodies, onto the whenua, into the unknown. We breathe together. We make space for all that is alive and all we yearn to compost. We remember that death and decay is a beginning. Together we prepare the ground.
Day 2 | Feeling into life
Saturday
We deepen into practice.
We learn from the unseen life beneath our feet—from microbes and ancestral knowledge. We listen to the more than human, to atua, to mātauranga and to our bodies. We explore the systems and metaphors that shape how we live, lead, and relate.
Day 3 | Growing forth
Sunday morning
We emerge. Tenderly, slowly. We ask: what is alive in me now? What wants to grow? How do we stay with the trouble and stay with the joy? What does restorative system change feel like in my body, in this community? What do we yearn for next?
Workshop prices are inclusive of:
Two nights single bed, twin share accommodation at the beautiful Omori Lodge, Taupō – all linen provided.
All meals and snacks are provided for the duration of the wānanga – gluten free and vegetarian.
Guided sessions with the facilitators across the breadth of the weekend.
If you have low vision or low hearing or any other accessibility needs – be in touch. We want you to feel welcome and will try to support you in this space.
Emergent Strategy
Emergent Strategy principles from adrienne maree brown, call us to follow nature’s patterns for collective transformation of our relationship to change
Small is good, small is all. (The large is a reflection of the small.)
Change is constant. (Be like water.)
There is always enough time for the right work.
There is a conversation in the room that only these people at this moment can have. Find it.
Never a failure, always a lesson.
Trust the People. If you trust the people, they become trustworthy OR the boundaries become clear.
Move at the speed of trust. Focus on critical connections more than critical mass — build the resilience by building relationships.
Less prep, more presence.
What you pay attention to grows.
Who is this for?
This is a space for anyone yearning to feel part of a living, loving system again.
You don’t need to bring a strategy or a job title.
You just need to bring your whole self.
What you’ll experience
A weekend imbued with mātauranga Māori, led by wairua, whakapapa, mauri, maramatanga, mana, and te ao turoa.
Embodied dance, meditation and art in motion.
Systems thinking rooted in ecology, not efficiency.
Spaciousness to feel, reflect, unlearn and reweave in relation to ancestors and descendants.
Delicious wairua-nourishing kai.
Connection with the more-than-human world.
A circle of care and courage.
Come slow down with us.
Let’s compost the extractive, linear, and disembodied.
Grow something grounded, something relational and alive.
Let’s live into a Tiriti-led future, together.
“Out beyond a sense of rightdoing and wrong doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
Rumi
With love,
Moko, Kaia, Rebecca + Sarah
Our thoughts and ideas are not at all ‘ours’; they are the emergent outcomes of relationships and encounters between each of us and our habitats.
We’re influenced by so many thinkers, makers, doers, and beings but also by conversations with friends, received wisdom, our tamariki and mokopuna, stories, food, music, the sea, the stars, trees, animals, passing moments, mistakes, the weather.
At this moment we want to especially attend to the inspiration we have received from Moana Jackson, Teina Boasa Dean, Mark+Diana Kopua, Anna Helprin, Leah Manaema Avene, Bayo Akomolafe, Vanessa Andreotti, adrienne maree brown, Nora Bateson, Tyson Yunkaporta.
Join the mycelium
We will send very little, not very often.
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