Community Gatherings
Fireside gatherings, collective rituals, and cultural dialogues – where participants come together in story, song, and mutual engagement with each other and the living world.
Most modern spaces ask us to arrive as individuals—to present ourselves, define ourselves, and manage how we’re perceived.
We’re interested in something else.
Our work is grounded in the idea that the self is not something we carry alone, but something that emerges between us. In this way, gathering becomes more than a social act—it becomes a cultural one.
Each event is a small act of cultural change.
A shift away from hyper-independence, and toward shared humanity.
A move from “How am I?” to “How are we?”
In a world that increasingly pulls us toward individualism, many of us find ourselves connected everywhere—and known nowhere.
Our community events and gatherings in Melbourne are a response to this quiet fragmentation. They are spaces designed not just for socialising, but for something deeper: real connection, shared experience, and the slow work of building belonging.
At Turning Ground, we believe healing doesn’t happen in isolation. While individual therapy has its place, much of what shapes us—and what restores us—lives between us. In relationship. In community. In the courage to be seen, and to see others.
Our gatherings bring people together to explore this in practice. Through facilitated group experiences, conversations, workshops, and social events, we create environments where:
authenticity is welcomed
vulnerability is met with care
and connection moves beyond surface-level interaction
This is not about networking. It’s not about performance.
It’s about remembering what it feels like to belong, to remember our humanity, together.
Upcoming Events
We offer the grounds to gather and reweave our belonging to life.
Photos From Previous Gatherings
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![Kiernan Ironfields playing yidaki to open Turning Ground's event with David Whyte]()
David Whyte in Melbourne
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![Community events at Turning Ground in Brunswick East]()
Our Wild Imaginations
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![Claire Dunn opening our nature connection practice in Melbourne]()
Seasons of the Soul
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![Opening for the Bloom Journals 2025 Launch in Brunswick]()
Bloom Journals 2025 Launch
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![David Whyte at Turning Ground in Melbourne]()
David Whyte in Melbourne
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![Horizons of Hope launch community gathering in Thornbury]()
Horizons of Hope Series Launch
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![Conversation on Psychological and Cultural change in Fairfield]()
Psyches and Society in 2024
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![Opening circle at community gathering in Thornbury]()
Our Wild Imaginations
We are Listening.
Join us in co-creation.
We are always in the listening and sensing into the challenges, needs, and desires of our community, so that we may respond with truly meaningful offerings. Your voice will guide us in our design of our programs.
If you would like to offer us insight into what you would find most supportive, please head over to our Sensing Portal.
Join us in reciprocity, where we can create more beautiful lives. Together.