I’m a a collaborative companion, courageous communicator and considerate cultivator. A supervisor, mentor and guide who seeks to bring a Slow and Wild approach to walking and working with others.
Through deep listening and reflection, I hold space for you to notice, tend and cultivate the life of God emerging within you. Collecting nectar from wisdom’s rich and colourful garden, I pollinate our space with creative offerings and practices that support you to grow your own way.
I am formed in the Christian tradition, and drawn to the wisdom and practices of contemplative spirituality. As I live and work on these lands now called Australia I am recentering the spirituality of Aboriginal people. I’m enriched by walking and working with people of all cultures, faiths, identities, sexualities, abilities, and life experiences. I commit to ongoing learning and unlearning, and to a gentle, trauma-informed practice that honours each person’s story, dignity, and agency.
For more information about Kym, please explore on her website – www.slowwildspirituality.com.
Favourite Scripture: I love Eugene Petersons MSG translation of Colossians 1: 15-20, as it describes the way Jesus reveals the very nature of God both transcendent and embodied, expansive and near, spacious and intimately welcoming us to find our creative place within the vibrant harmony of a beloved creation.
Favourite Book: I cannot pick just one, it will be the kind that explores the spiritual landscape giving fresh language and imagery to ancient truth and experience. Right now its ‘Our unforming: De Westernizing Spiritual Formation’ by Cindy S Lee.
Favourite Movie: The ones that explore the depth of human experience, this year thats included Hamnet, Jimpa, The testament of Ann Lee and I Swear.
Favourite Quote: “We are like sponges trying to mop up the ocean, we shall not be able to explain God but we can apprehend God more and more.”— Everlyn Underhill
Memorable Moment: Over the past two years I have had the opportunity to retreat, yarn, listen, sing, weep and share eucharist in friendship with Aboriginal Christian Leaders, their spirituality with its way of describing how to be in right relationship with country and kin has been a healing balm and source of deep hope.
