ABOUT THE RECOLLECTIVE

The Recollective seeks to create, and to explore the ways in which as we make, we are made ourselves - serving as both a vehicle and a vessel for changemakers, community practitioners and activists to develop and co-create. We are:

A network of storytellers & facilitators accompanying communities in restoration

A network of voices available to accompany communities in the important conversations our world is asking us to have.

We explore community, reflection, decolonisation, creativity and faith spaces that support flourishing.

The Recollective supports our network of facilitators to share their voice through values aligned projects.

Recollective products and resources are made out of conversations and relationships with respect to the earth.

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Talitha was lucky enough to get to visit home (Aotearoa) during a brief travel-bubble between Naarm lockdowns.

There, she found some NZ-designed fabric at an op shop. To bring that back and make doorstops, a promise of doors being open, while we were locked-down felt like an action of resistance and hope.

As for many, reflecting on the impacts of the pandemic, this had us thinking about what’s really important to us and what do we want to do with our "one wild and precious life” (Mary Oliver). How can we live a life more meaningfully?

The Recollective is our answer to that question. A playground at the nexus of reflection, culture and feminist theologies. Come play with us...