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The Gathering of Wellbeing 2026
27 February – 1 March 2026 | Numinbah Valley

Unity - reconnect with yourself, with one another, and with the wider world.

A transformative 3-day, 2-night retreat, co-created by Women’s Wellbeing Association & Men’s Wellbeing  

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Melaina Faranda

Melaina Faranda has told stories for decades in her work as a facilitator of women's and girls' circles, teacher, workshop leader, presenter, and author of 70 published books. She loves the way stories can create deeper collective homecoming - whether that's a personal story or imagined. With a particular interest in personal stories, myth telling and the mythopoetic, Melaina has trained at England’s premier storytelling course – the three-month Emerson College residential: Storytelling Beyond Words, along with additional in-person training with Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Dr Martin Shaw, Dr Sharon Blackie, Roi Gal-Or, Karmit Evenzur, Ashley Ramsden, Shonaleigh Cumbers, Hugh Lupton, Angharad Wynne, Colin Campbell, and many storytelling luminaries in the UK and USA. 

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Workshop 2026:Story Spells – Learn How to Enchant and Compel with Your Heart Stories

There’s an old story about people who could take their hearts from their chests and show them to others - that ends in a surprising and satisfying way. Starting with that tale, we’ll be mapping some of our own heart terrain and fashioning a story to share with others. You don’t have to be a ‘natural’ or have an acting background to be a storyteller. It's a learnable art form with practical tools and techniques that can help you: expand, persuade, inspire, move, encourage, educate, entertain, and open the wonder door. Simply by being human, it’s your absolute birthright to feel confident to gift others a story that can be woven as a glimmering thread into the collective tapestry of our shared existence. In this workshop you'll learn techniques for remembering, crafting, refining, and discovering personal treasure within a story your heart moves you to tell.
Because I'll be starting the workshop with a telling please be there to start right on time.

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