MISSION OF CONNECTION

I support families to feel connected to nature, others and oneself.
Through playful and experiential opportunities to explore creative expression, movement and nature based practices, we can facilitate culture repair.

ABOUT ME: Clio Doughty

I specialise in working with Family and Community Wellbeing, by creating healing spaces that integrate Art Therapy, Nature Connection and Movement Meditation in a playful way. 

My passion to share is in deep respect to the lineages and respected teachers I learn from in Australia and overseas, and my own experienced connection and practice with the work. Working with nature, I honour the past, present and future of this land and First Nations peoples. I bring my recent ancestry through my family line, and hope to connect back to the core of all human ancestry. 

I have worked with children and the extended communities for over 10 years in schools, community centres and private. I weave in my experience, qualifications and study in art and nature based therapies, earth arts and wild crafts, social and cultural studies, healing and bodywork, family and community support. I am First Aid certified and have a Working with Childrens Check.

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. . . SUSTAINABLE SELF PRACTICE 5b: practice depth from knowledge . . . Applying our understanding into practice through actions we make. The depth of our decisions. It may be and external shift with choices, but also an subtle internal shift. . A co
. . . SUSTAINABLE SELF PRACTICE 5: Knowledge is a rumour until it’s in the body . . . My teachers, my mentors, my community around me. They didn’t teach me the answer. They gifted me core routines and practices to discover. What I find th
. . . SUSTAINABLE SELF PRACTICE 5a: open to develop knowledge beyond . . . It is through opening to the unknown that we may expand what we may learn and experience. That we may see, feel and remember what is beyond the surface of ourselves. A few wee
. . . the world i see . . . Art gives you the eyes to inquire. It gives you the pause to see. Art initiates awareness to seek meaning. It is the breath of spaciousness for perspective. Art invites us to gather understanding. The same way we go into t
. Creativity is our survival. It has meant the survival of human civilisation. It opens our minds to tend to change that is needed to adapt. It’s our power to craft with what we have and transform it. It is our immunity. . And here are some rad
. . . the night will come when i know that i‘ll be ok in the dark . . . Do you trust your body? What power do you have in healing the body? Of course I believe in the need for human and medical intervention to assist us. But I also believe in t
. . . SUSTAINABLE SELF PRACTICE 3b: empowerment by challenging self limiting barriers . . . Pause. Recognise that belief you have about yourself, others or the world that is limiting potential? Give it a chance to be different from what you decided i
. . . SUSTAINABLE SELF PRACTICE 3: empowerment . . . Take your power into your hands. Focus on the power you do have within and develop your skills to enhance your abilities. We are losing many human practices that are automated to industrialised mas
. . . SUSTAINABLE SELF PRACTICE 3a: empowerment by reframing power . . . When you challenge unhelpful beliefs, you can discover the power within that quality you may perceive as a weakness. Seeing both the potential and the loss is essential in recon
. . . the woman who inspires me is the woman who I am becoming . . . Poem above by Brooke Solis . Use your inspiration to fuel your motivation. The golden shadow which we place on our heroines/heroes, is our projection for what we hope to bring into
. . . when we create we also destroy at once we release . . . These blue-grey leaves grow in polarity, opposing each other along the stem. This sacred gum cleanses in smoke and creates firey colour through heated rainwater infusion. It dances duality
. . . culture holds me in division to create and it is me who knows my wholeness . . . Our body holds a reflection of nature, of society, of the world. We HOLD it. We carry the good and the bad within us. The changing world imprinted so intimately in
. . . SUSTAINABLE SELF PRACTICE 2b: Motivation to attend to our attitudes . . . Murray speaks about keeping in alignment, noticing when our judgments may be out of line with our core values. The body is the ultimate place where this comes into quest
. . . SUSTAINABLE SELF PRACTICE 2: Motivation . . . What directs you in life? Look down to your feet and recognise complexity of world from which you were born. The intricately interconnected world from which you interact and are a part of each mome
. . . SUSTAINABLE SELF PRACTICE 2a: Motivation by remembering our values . . . A huge reason of why I love working with kids is they motivate me to be my best person as a role model for the future generation. A person who is exploring ways to embody
. . . there’s potential to get trapped lost in a loop unknowingly going around and around perhaps you’ll recognise the landscape the markers of entrapment you may know it so well you can see the opportunity to change course with a hangi
. . . like a deep spring with your head in the clouds . . . Reflecting in nature gives me lots of metaphors for living. Watching these were just moments to stop. Slow down. And the meaning of them flooded my mind only now, over a month after. The mea
. . . you can get lost inside your basket closing in on you just like you can get caught up in an issue what about staying on the outside growing awareness . . . Wise words from some wise women learning about directing your basket at our weaving work
. . . SUSTAINABLE SELF PRACTICE 1b: Awareness of our roles and the impact of our actions . . . Not too long ago a fellow human said they don’t feel the extent of their choices. Environmentally and socially. Do you feel you have an impact on the
SUSTAINABLE SELF PRACTICE 1: Awareness . . . Expanding our awareness by sharing experiences that could be outside of our normal perception is vital to adapting to change. We @wild_by_nature_australia and Wildcraft Australia held space at the Rewild