What is
becoming crew
all about?
THE CONTEXT WE WORK FROM
The converging crises we face from climate and ecological breakdown, extreme inequality, social and racial injustice, to unfettered extractive capitalism are all symptoms of a shared root cause: economic designs, ways of organising ourselves and being in relationship on this Earth that are based on outdated and harmful ways of seeing the world, a deeply ingrained narrative – that we are separate from nature and separate from each other.
There are no answers where we used to find them, no wisdom from our governing institutions, little truth from a corporatised media, no meaningful participation in decision-making that impacts us all and scant responsibility for future life in our societal narratives.
Collectively, we find ourselves living in increasingly mysterious times.
Many of us are feeling a call to step more fully into service, to let go of old, tired, destructive stories, beliefs and ways of being that no longer serve life today or the futures we dream of.
Transformation is being called for, but what if in order to transform our decaying systems we must start with transforming ourselves?
What if change is really an inside job?
“The future is not out there in front of us, but inside us.”
Evolve yourself, in community, in service to life on earth.
OUR INVITATION TO YOU
Becoming Crew is an invitation to evolve yourself together.
A threshold, a portal to begin a transformation journey.
A space to descend and grow again.
Where we can bring grief, vulnerability, joy, care, imagination, experimentation, play and not knowing - all welcome and vital.
A rebellion of the heart through which we begin to remember, imagine, practice and prototype more beautiful ways of being with ourselves, with our fellow humans and with our more than human family.
Becoming Crew is about cultivating our individual and collective capacities to navigate mysterious times, to become active participants in co-creating the emerging future, and grow life-sustaining communities and cultures.
Guided by stories grounded in a renewed understanding that all life is interconnected and interdependent.
Moving from a fixed, binary, hierarchical, extractive way of knowing the world into a complex, mysterious, entangled, emergent, participative and regenerative approach, one of becoming.
We offer experiential (un)learning adventures, designed to deepen connection to our unique authentic selves, to our fellow human beings as community and to nature - our more than human family.
Cultivating essential practices for these times - connection, cooperation, humility, and participation.
Growing our collective awareness, wisdom, courage, imagination, love and care for all life - ourselves included.
Becoming Crew requires commitment not just to thinking about the shifts that need to happen but more importantly to feeling, practicing and embodying new ways of knowing the world within and around us - of living, behaving and working - of being and doing.
Radical reconnection to regenerate the world within us and around us.
Stepping into service, in service to life.
Becoming crew on Spaceship Earth.
“The climate crisis is as much a rural problem as an urban one. It is both economic and human, domestic and international. This means transformation is required at every level of society: individuals, employers, institutions”
Essential practices we weave throughout this work
Showing up
Commitment to ongoing individual practice, to cultivate the courage to journey through discomfort and not knowing for authentic personal evolution - becoming.
Connecting
To nature - our more than human family - developing practices to deepen connection, awareness and relationship with the world around us that we have not made - crew.
Stepping into service
Serving community, honouring the wider community with our gifts - listening, tending, holding, sharing, supporting, co-learning, moving from individual to collective - crew.
We harness the power of our most alive questions.
We avoid jumping straight to solutions and fixing.
We champion inquiry and experimentation as powerful fertiliser for navigating mysterious times.
Basecamp Crew
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Dan Burgess
Guide, Catalyst, Artist, Activist - Creating/holding spaces and journeys for change.
Over 25 years I’ve gained deep experiential knowledge and cultivated practices harnessing creativity, community, collaboration and culture for action and resilience on complex challenges.
I navigate from the heart, with curiosity, experimentation and imagination.
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Evva Semenowicz
Facilitator, Space Holder, and Creative Collaborator, exploring more beautiful ways of being.
My work is an expression of my journey of becoming crew; weaving pathways of belonging, remembering our own naturalness and developing practices for stepping into service to all life on earth.
I hold spaces infused with embodiment, deep intuition and a bit of weirdness.
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Mark Sears
Nature inspired facilitator, wild guide and soulful activist.
I work with individuals and organisations of all kinds, weaving deep ecology and storytelling with participatory design, movement building and emergent strategy to support the inner work required to navigate these mysterious times.
The spaces I hold are gently playful, deeply soulful and grounded in a reverence for the wonder of the wild world.