Upcoming
Change-making Women's Circle with Gina Chick
Friday 20th February - Sunday 22nd February 2026
Weekend
2 Esther Lane, Surry Hills
Join us for a full-weekend women’s circle with Gina Chick at Esther Lane.
An immersive gathering for change-making women ready to reconnect with their bodies, instincts and each other.
Over a night and two days, Gina draws on her deep embodiment in 5Rhythms® dance-meditation, wilderness connection practices, and rite of passage work; weaving offerings to guide us into presence, intuitive voice activation, creative flow and grounded sisterhood.
Amid increasingly complex global challenges and the need for paradigm-shifting interventions, this weekend offers space to breathe, move and make sense of what we’re carrying, so we can bring the full power of our voices to a world yearning for balance.
Through movement sessions, shared meals, powerful processes, generous helpings of bawdy laughter, connection practices, ritual, and reflective dialogue, we follow the tracks of our own true natures, awakening our inner wildself and rekindling a steadier sense of direction. We’ll meet both tender and fierce parts of ourselves, befriending them as allies. Our gifts are needed! Let’s shake the rust out and get to work.
Expect work with voice, boundaries, embodiment and creativity: finding our instinctive voice; learning to say no and stop leaking energy; exploring vitality, sexuality and creative expression; and letting go of what stands in the way of our full expression.
We’ll dance the balance between the controlling and rational parts of ourselves and the wild brilliance of our emotional, instinctive and intuitive intelligence.
This weekend invites you to arrive exactly as you are, exhale into connection with other change-making women, and step into your own inner wildness held by Gina’s warmth and wisdom, and the welcoming ethos of Esther Lane.
Our Weekend Together:
• Friday 20th Feb | 7 - 10pm - 5Rhythms® dance with Gina
• Saturday 21st Feb | 9:30 - 4:30pm - Full day workshop at Esther Lane
• Sunday 22nd | 9:30 - 4:30pm - Centennial Park nature immersion followed by the afternoon at Esther Lane
About Gina
Gina Chick is an author, musician, wilderness mentor and inspirational voice. She won Alone Australia in 2022 after surviving 67 days solo in Tasmania’s wilderness, and is the author of We Are The Stars, a memoir of connection, instinctive resilience and the healing power of nature. Gina leads rewilding programs, monthly 5Rhythms® sessions in Sydney, and writes nature-infused songs sung by choirs and communities around the world.
Convener: Eleanor Gammell
Regenerating: Towards an Australian Rewilding Congress
Thursday 5th March 2026
6 - 9pm
2 Esther Lane, Surry Hills
United by a shared commitment to nurturing Australia’s living systems, gathering around a table will be Traditional Owners, ecologists, farmers, artists, land stewards, investors and others working within capital flows and policy, all drawn to the urgent yet hopeful work of ecological regeneration and exploring the possibility of an Australian Rewilding Congress.
Stories will be exchanged, local projects shared, and common threads woven of place and long-term stewardship. An evening of grounded intentions, seeding the beginnings of a network rooted in support, learning and strategic alignment of resources and coordination toward the restoration of Australia’s biodiverse ecosystems.
This will be the second gathering of its kind to continue deepening the coordination of this critical movement.
Conveners: Simon Harris and Kirsty de Garis.
Human Agency in the Age of AI
Tuesday 24th March 2026
5 - 7pm
2 Esther Lane, Surry Hills
Australia stands at a critical juncture in the global AI transition. This gathering at Esther Lane brings together researchers, investors, technologists, civil society leaders and policymakers to examine how artificial intelligence is being designed, deployed and governed; and what that means for human agency, identity and democratic trust.
Moving beyond technical safety and alignment frameworks, this series focuses on the deeper social, political and economic dynamics shaping the AI era. It explores how incentives, infrastructure and power concentration influence outcomes, alongside the growing tension between convenience and control, scale and dignity, and innovation and public accountability.
The gathering features Michael Casey, journalist, technologist and co-author of Our Biggest Fight: Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity and Dignity in a Digital Age, alongside Jess Scully, Executive Director of RadicalxChange, and David Christmas, founder of the Max Browser.
Together with leaders working on digital identity, privacy, trust infrastructure and real-world AI deployment, the panel will examine how Web2 platform dominance, surveillance-driven business models and emerging AI systems risk entrenching new forms of digital feudalism and what decentralised, human-centred alternatives could look like in practice.
The aim of the gathering is to surface critical questions, expose blind spots, recognise emerging patterns and identify strategic leverage points for action, contributing to a more coherent national understanding of how Australia can build technologies that preserve agency, livelihoods and social trust at this pivotal moment.
Convener: Eleanor Gammell
‘Leviathan’ by Alexander Beiner
Sydney Premiere
Expressions of interest for Second Sydney Screening
6 - 9pm
2 Esther Lane, Surry Hills
Please join us to watch this debut by social commentator and human potential advocate Alexander Beiner.
Leviathan is a feature-length documentary that invites you to journey into the deep code of culture. It explores our current social, economic and technological reality through the lens of psychology, history and myth to bring us face to face with the collective shadows we can integrate to find freedom.
Starring some of the brightest and most heterodox thinkers in their fields, Leviathan investigates why trust in our institutions is declining so rapidly, what social media is really doing to our hearts and minds, and how we can move into a new economic paradigm that chooses life over blind extraction.
Leviathan is a story of collective potential, revealing how we can transform the mindset that drives our broken systems into a source of creativity, imagination and radical hope.
Starring Yanis Varoufakis, Nora Bateson, Douglas Rushkoff, Minna Salami, Josh Schrei, Alexa Firmenich and John Vervaeke.
