Community Wellbeing Fund

What is the Fund?

With launchpad donations from Here to Be and Agape Meditation, our Community Wellbeing Fund enables us to expand our service to those who need it most—providing free or subsidised programs to community-led organisations and groups for whom funding is a barrier.

In 2024, the Fund enabled 288 people in under-resourced communities to attend programs through their service providers. These programs were delivered on psychiatric inpatient units of multiple hospitals, at long-term residential facilities for people with acute mental health distress, a minimum-security prison, at a school for young women recently arrived in Australia of refugee background, at a service for transgender and gender diverse young people, and in a trauma recovery group.

The Fund also enabled 12 people to join our public courses for free.

Donations to the Fund are currently open to help drive this important work forward.

How It Works

Our mindfulness and movement-based programs have been designed to support the mental and physical health of children, young people and adults in a variety of settings, including clinical, community-centred and complex environments.

In partnership with successful Fund recipients, we co-design and co-facilitate an 8-week program to intentionally meet community needs.

Adapted to meet diverse accessibility, inclusion, and cultural needs, our programs support participants to:  

  • Learn somatic tools and strategies to support their mental and physical health  

  • Learn strategies for stress relief and nervous system regulation 

  • Practice choice-making and autonomy in a group setting 

  • Increase awareness of feelings or sensations in their body  

  • Socially engage with others in a non-judgemental, welcoming space 

Who Is Eligible?

This opportunity is specifically designed for under-resourced, grassroots, and community-led organisations for whom funding is a barrier to accessing our services. 

Additionally, we have a small number of subsidised programs available for organisations who are more resourced, but budget-constrained.

FAQs

  • Please email our Programs Coordinator, Alexia, directly at alexia@collectivebeing.org

  • Soma Play Children’s Programs is a therapeutic somatic program for those aged 5-12 years. The program encourages creativity, play, movement and mindfulness – all skills that support children to be healthy, resilient and connected.

    Soma Skills Youth Program is a therapeutic groupwork program for those aged 13-25 years. The program supports young people to explore strategies for self-regulation, stress-relief and social connection, through the integration of embodied practices and age-appropriate psycho-education.

    Therapeutic Movement and Mindfulness (TMM) supports those aged over 18 years who have experienced trauma and are seeking yoga, movement and mindfulness-based practices. This program is an adjunctive to clinical or therapeutic treatment.

  • Our 8-week programs cost $6,200 per term. This cost covers facilitation wages, program props, curriculum and materials, management and mentoring for our team, insurance, and shared essential services that ensure high-quality, safe and responsible service delivery.

    The Community Wellbeing Fund enables subsidies to cover 25%, 50% or 100% of the program cost. 

    All programs delivered in partnership with First Nations run organisations receive a 100% subsidy, meaning there is no cost to the partner organisation.

  • Your organisation will be integral in program delivery, ensuring participant safety, and engaging in feedback for program evaluation. Venue provision is appreciated but not mandatory. Partner program staff must be onsite and in the program room for the duration of all sessions.

  • Collective Being will provide program materials including yoga mats, program workbooks and additional props and resources for each participant of the program.

  • Our programs are delivered in locations convenient to program participants, and the venue is generally determined by program partner organisations. Sometimes onsite at your service, or at a nearby and appropriate venue.

  • Collective Being has experience facilitating programs across a diverse range of settings. Some of our experience includes: 

    • Working within clinical and complex medical settings

    • Delivering our programs in multi-use spaces where there may be disruptions 

    • Collaborating with interpreters and translators

    • Facilitating movements and practices accessible to the wide-ranging and diverse mobility needs of all group participants 

    • Facilitating sessions with neurodivergent people and seeking to establish neuro-affirming spaces 

    • Co-designing and co-facilitating with program partner staff to meet their organisational objectives.

  • Upon receiving your Expression of Interest, our Programs Coordinator, Alexia, will contact you within 5 working days.

  • Please email our Programs Coordinator Alexia directly at alexia@collectivebeing.org

Interested in funding?

Tell us about your organisation, which Collective Being Program you would like, and your ideal timings. We’ll be in touch within 5 working days — we can’t wait to hear from you.

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