Dear Reader,

This month's newsletter focuses on 'the calling': how we support ourselves to listen to, focus on, and unfold the signals arising within and around us.

But let’s start with a word on why this can be hard. Most of us have stayed with a familiar path at some point, even while quieter signals were suggesting another. In many ways it's deeply human. The known track feels safe, and our communities and larger systems often settle into well-worn tracks too. Sometimes those tracks reinforce power served by the status quo. Sometimes staying put is a conscious choice shaped by circumstance, and that is its own kind of wisdom. At other times we simply haven't noticed there's a choice to make. We accept what is, doubt our own impact, or let the signals pass by. Noticing is the key, and where it all begins.

So, what is a calling? Process Work speaks of things being 'called into being', whether that's roles we find ourselves in, conflicts that need to play out, or symptoms that are messages in disguise, inviting us to live more fully our part in the world's process.

Here are three ways to support yourself in following whatever is calling:

• Learn to listen to the signals. Whether they show up in your body, your dreams or your environment, start by slowing down and noticing, then meet what you find with compassionate curiosity.
• Practise being in relationship with humans, animals and nature. When we bring this same slowing down, noticing and compassionate curiosity to our relationships, we build our 'with-ness': room for separateness and difference, alongside the interconnected quality between everything.
• Get in touch with something bigger than you. That interconnected oneness or essence has many names across cultures and religions. Arnold Mindell called it Process Mind, and it exists around everything. You can catch glimpses of it in what Mindell called 'flirts': things that capture your peripheral attention, calling to you.

Try this now: Let your eyes go soft and foggy. What are you drawn to? Don't second-guess it. Notice three qualities of this thing, or three associations that spring to mind, without judgement. How might they be helpful for you today? At the least, it's playful. At the most, you're tapping into an energy that's present and calling to be lived.

Deepen your learning: TWO YEAR PROCESS WORK STUDY PROGRAM (Melbourne cohort)​

Process Work is a modality whose brilliance lies in its elegant core concepts, its wide scope of application, its compatibility with existing knowledge, and its centring of depth awareness. If Process Work has been flirting with you for a while and you're called to learn alongside a community, the Two Year Process Work Study Program is a wonderful way to immerse yourself.

Across 18 modules, held one weekend a month, you build your knowledge through experiential exercises. There are no assignments, just experience and learning with a group of people on a journey of depth awareness, for personal development and for skills that apply to teaching, coaching, relationships, leadership, therapy, groupwork and bodywork. It is also the pathway into the mastery stream of the Diplomate Program, and can count as Recognised Prior Learning (RPL) for Phase 1 of that program.

If you're noticing a calling to learn over time and live in community, this is for you. Applications are now open for the 2027-2028 Melbourne cohort.

With: Grzesiek Zielinski, Bec Lang, Beck Ronkson, Liz Scarfe, Vicki Hendricks and Martin Hemsley
​When: 18 weekends, held monthly throughout 2027–2028, begins February 27.
​Where: Naarm (Melbourne)
​Apply now: https://anzpop.org/two-year-process-work-study-program/​

Here are some more upcoming offerings to support your calling -

MEETING ACROSS THE DIVIDE: CAN WE TALK ABOUT RACISM? ​
with Colleen Clarke and Bec Lang
Heed the call of one of the most important issues we need to discuss in this country, and practise sitting in relationship with it. This workshop is for anyone wanting to take part in truth-telling and counter rising levels of racism in our communities. It will be an intimate workshop with capped numbers, so we can sit with depth.
​When: Sat 24 and Sun 25 October
​Where: Naarm – Kathleen Symes Library, North Melbourne
​Book early: https://anzpop.org/training-programs/process-work-public-courses/meeting-across-the-divide/​

TRAUMA-INFORMED FACILITATION ​
with Liz Scarfe
Learn to notice the signals in groups that need attention, and leave with concrete steps for what to do.
​When: Two Wednesdays, 20 and 27 October, 9.30am–12.30pm AEDT
​Where: Online
​Book here:https://anzpop.org/training-programs/process-work-public-courses/trauma-informed-facilitation/​

LIFE MYTH AT WORK​
with Bec Lang and Beck Ronkson
Discover the energies that have been within and around you since childhood, encoded in your childhood dreams and experiences, calling you to live them and bring them to the world. This creative workshop helps you surface your myth and feel its energetic guidance for your work.
​When: Fri 6 and Sat 7 November, 10am–5pm AEDT
​Where: Muloobinba – Carrington Community Centre (Newcastle, NSW)
​Selling out, only 4 places left! Book now: https://anzpop.org/training-programs/process-work-public-courses/life-myth-at-work/​

Whether your calling arrives as a bodily sensation, a dream, a flirt at the edge of your vision or a persistent nudge toward a new way of learning, there's no wrong way to start! Slow down, notice, stay curious, and trust what draws your attention. We'd love to walk alongside you as you follow it.

Warmly,

ANZPOP

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