Our Community

 

The Grove is a place to find your tribe and be part of creating a diverse and inclusive community where we explore together:

  • letting go of outmoded ways of working and embracing the new,

  • being in transition and enacting change in the world,

  • taking the courageous path of stepping into the unknown.

We invite you to co-create places of practice for the meaningful work you want to do in the world.

You are welcome to attend a Grove event or learn more about being a member. When you are ready to sign up please fill in and pay via the online membership form.

 The Grove is a safe community for people to share their ideas and form collaborations

 

Member Profiles

  • Monique Potts

    Monique Potts

    Researcher, writer, casual academic, PhD candidate

    Helping build ‘islands of sanity’ keeps me sane…

  • Liz Tilley

    Liz Tilley

    Coach, facilitator, speaker

    I'm passionate about people and connecting with heart-centred deep thinkers.

    I'm curious about what can be achieved when we come together.

  • Mark Spain

    Mark Spain

    Board member, leadership development

    My life purpose is to cultivate the conditions for life to thrive. Bringing humanity and nature back into balance and harmony.

  • Vanessa Alexander

    A transformation specialist with expertise in change management, organisational dynamics, people and culture.

    I integrate skills in eco-systems thinking, sensing emergence and learning, with strengths in ideation, activating relational and collective capacities and co-design, to create the conditions for organisations to collaborate, co-create, perform and transform.

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    Jacqueline Vaughan

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  • Robyn Katz

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  • Sean Walsh

    Sean Walsh

    Good guy

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Membership Guide

Member Collaborative Projects

Grove members are collaborating with others to bring projects alive in the world.

 

Earth Chair

A chair in every board or team dedicated to speaking for Earth.

Conceived by founding member, David Pointon, The Grove was invited to prototype EarthChair, a practice to invite the voice and presence of Earth into our meetings and circles. The feedback from sharing this original and powerful possibility at The Grove retreats has been overwhelming. May this simple yet profound practise continue to enrich our thinking, widen our view and support us to be good custodians.

 

Monique’s Resilience project

Building wellbeing into education

 

Dan’s farm and Theresa’s food business

 

The Men’s Table

Men serving men ….. a life of belonging through a trusted group of peers
https://themenstable.org

 

The Triangles Game

It is a tool for analysing, understanding and moving out of dysfunctional situations and conflicts in any relationship, within families, work teams, communities, schools, organisations and governments.

 

Dust on Snow

Using the Consensus Institute process (Finding New Ground) with 170 people To Explore the Ability to Fix a Broken Water Cycle: Dust, Snow and Flow in the Headwaters of the Rio Grande and Colorado Rivers.

 

Sacred Leadership with Tjanara

Robyn, Maria and Mark hosted Tjanara at the Art Gallery of NSW to share her story of the pathway to being an elder in indigenous culture in Australia.

 

Prosocial World

Awareness of our internal thoughts

The quality of our Relationships

The Cultural agreements we create

https://www.prosocial.world

Becoming a member

The Grove is Open is registered with NSW Coops as a non-distributing not for profit coop - Read the Coop Rules here

Want to know more about Membership of The Grove? Download our membership guide.

A member must participate in at least one meeting, activity or event of the cooperative, or for the cooperative each full financial year to establish and maintain active membership in the cooperative. A person qualifies for membership if they agree to uphold the Guiding Principles of the cooperative

When you are ready to sign up please fill in and pay via the online membership form

If you would like to hear about upcoming events and get an experience of what we do in The Grove before you join please check out Our Gatherings or sign up for The Grove mailing list.

 "The Grove is a place to rest, restore, reconnect, to experiment, collaborate, take action and find support and kinship.”

Our Inspiration

Ruth’s Foundation

Founding member Ruth McCance passed away in an avalanche whilst climbing Nanda Devi in the Himalayas. Many friends made a donation at her funeral to continue her work in the Grove. The Grove has established a foundation to steward these donations. Her partner Trent found the following note at home.

Note to self:

"The journey of healing will last my whole life True compassion is to love all of myself just as I am now - that's all I need to do" Ruth McCance