Therapy@HomeCountry through Tracy Spencer Sole Trader has collaborated with RAW for the past 2 years to bring timely, streamlined, low cost/FREE, supported and relevant therapeutic services to RAW participants. Now, RAW is keen to upscale this model, and has proposed a project to identify similar mental health practitioners in regional Tasmania who are willing and able to work in this way to improve outcomes for their traditionally help-resistant participants.

Kristy and Tracy will present at the upcoming National Rural Mental Health Conference in Hobart about this model and pathways forwards in the rural sectors and industries of Tasmania.

Watch this space!

Opportunities to collaborate with Eco-therapists through our National Parks is in the pipeline.

Stay tuned for more details in the new year!

Would you like to collaborate with HomeCountry to create something together that enhances Therapy.Mindfuness.Nature Connection? Contact me and start the conversation!

About the Workshops:  An exploration merging Theatre of the Oppressed with deep ecology, presenting theatre to honor the invisible and what has always been. To recognize we are in a time of system collapse, to sit in this uncertainty and unknowing together, and to cease seeking models or activist outcomes - instead gesturing towards decolonial futures honoring spirit, ourselves as nature, not outcomes.

With resonances to the writings of Bayo Akomolafe's and Andrea Bertelli's concept of "gesturing," and the growing Theatre That Reconnects movement, this process acknowledges that we are living through profound transitions. Rather than rushing toward solutions, we create sacred space to witness what is dying while tending what wants to emerge.

What to expect:

·        Forum Theatre - where "spect-actors" explore solutions to oppression through embodied action

·        Deep ecology practices connecting us to our place as nature

·        Theatre as a path to social transformation and healing, combining storytelling and ritual creation

·        Collective inquiry into planetary grief and regenerative possibilities

Dates: Late October - November 2025 Locations: Victoria and Tasmania

Hosted by Third Way Theatre. For more information or to express interest in attending, contact Third Way Theatre:

Phone: 0428 293 008 Email: thirdwaytheatre@gmail.com (please put "Hector" in the subject line)

We welcome your collaboration, input, hearts, and presence in this vital work.

Xris Reardon, Thirdway Theatre  (they/them)

Collaborating with the Adnyamathanha community of the Northern Flinders Ranges South Australia for the past 3 decades, Tracy is finally working with Wakefield Press to publish her PhD thesis as a general readership historical novel, telling the stories of two whitefellas who found belonging with the Adnyamathanha people of the Flinders Ranges through the 20th century era of colonisation. The stories of Jim Page and Rebecca Forbes with the Adnyamathanha community between 1920s - 1960s pave the way for all non-Indigenous Australians to understand and enact abiding friendship, solidarity and decolonisation in their relationships with Aboriginal friends and family today.

Fingers crossed it’ll be on the bookshelves in 2026!