Forgiving as Composting – Cultivating our Inner Soil
How might forgiveness become a source of nourishment?
In this experiential session, we’ll explore the metaphor of composting as a way to transform pain, resentment, and what no longer serves into fertile ground for growth.
Drawing on nature’s cycles, inner development practices, and wisdom from traditional cultures, we will:
- Reflect on what we are ready to “return to the soil”.
- Experience a guided visualization and small-circle sharing.
- Support coaches to accompany clients in composting their own old stories or hurts into fresh possibilities.
- Weave together a mycelium network of nature-inspired inner development practitioners.
This is a gentle, interactive space for practising coaches to ground in nature, expand metaphors for transformation, and experience forgiveness not as discarding, but as restoring balance.
Come with curiosity, an open heart and perhaps something you are ready to let go of. Leave with a deeper appreciation of tending to our inner soil, and cultivating the conditions for balance, renewal, and new possibilities.
Additional Details
Event Timezone Reference - South Africa
Presenter(s) Bio
Denise Pang
Denise is a dedicated coach, facilitator and practitioner of inner development. With 30 years of corporate experience, leadership and organization development, she is actively involved the Climate Coaching Alliance, the Work that Reconnects, and the Pachamama Alliance.
She is from Singapore, the ancestral lands and waters of the Orang Laut and Malay peoples, the original custodians of the shores and seas around Singapore.
She is grateful to live and work in Oslo, Norway, on the traditional territories of the Sami People, indigenous of the Fennoscandian region, and who have lived in deep relationship with nature for generations.
Helen Roberts
Helen (B. Comm., M Adult Ed, CPCC, ORSCC, PCC) is an experienced coach and consultant with more than 30 years of working alongside leaders and teams in health care, government, NGOs, and business. She specialises in leadership development, conflict facilitation, and culture transformation, weaving systems thinking, human dynamics, and nature’s wisdom into her work.
A certified Organizational and Relationship Systems Coach, Professional Certified Coach (ICF), and facilitator of the Clear Leadership program, Helen is known for her ability to help leaders align values with action. Having recently returned from a four-year sailing journey across the South Pacific, she brings a unique perspective on sustainability, resilience, and thriving teams.
Julia Tew
A communications specialist and storyteller, Julia is inspired by nature to catalyse transformative collaborations that co-create the regenerative conditions for flourishing futures to emerge.
A practitioner and facilitator of living systems principles, ubuntu, emotional intelligence, compassionate communication and other capacities, she advocates for a more inclusive, Africa-centric approach to addressing the crises of our time, weaving decades of experience and network-building into her consulting and the grassroots movements she nurtures.
Julia’s work has spanned diverse sectors and industries, ranging from advertising, publishing and education to food production, forestry and manufacturing. In addition to running her own consultancies, she has served on the executive of a market-leading multinational, supporting the development of its sustainability and social outreach initiatives and narratives.
A co-founder of the Southern Africa Network for the Inner Development Goals, Julia also helps grow and support the African Chapter of the Climate Coaching Alliance as well as its Nature Pod. She enjoys taking to the podium as a key-note speaker and dabbles in African futuristic writing.
Is This Event Being Recorded? - Yes
Event Language - English
Posted By - Julia Tew
Email - julia@thecircularstage.com