Community Healing & Resilience Workshops
Quest for Life delivers resilience-building, trauma-recovery and wellbeing workshops around NSW, the ACT, Victoria and elsewhere in Australia.
These empowering, practical workshops are for anyone experiencing hardship, grief, trauma, illness, mental health issues, or the impact of natural disasters. They are designed to help people with symptoms of stress and trauma to reclaim their lives and create greater control over their emotional equilibrium. Each program can also be tailored to meet the specific needs of a community.
Participants explore methods for healing the nervous system, managing mind and emotions. Our highly experienced facilitators educate participants about the impact of trauma, and offer practical self-care skills, helping improve their sleep, memory and focus, to make better decisions, and to feel more connected with other people.
For those whose mental, emotional or personal resources feel depleted, this is a time out to reconnect, restore balance and strengthen resilience through simple, effective tools and strategies.
Based on the latest research into neuroplasticity and epigenetics along with over 38 years of working with individuals and communities experiencing trauma, participants will leave the workshops feeling educated, empowered and inspired to implement what they learn.
What previous participants say:
“Empowering”
“Well presented, clearly explained”
“Clear, simple and easy to understand”
“Great, simple tools and explanations of our reasons for reacting”
Your Life Matters 2026 Workshop Dates
Feeling overwhelmed, stressed or stretched by life's demands?
Join us for a life-enhancing day focused on restoring balance, strengthening wellbeing and discovering practical ways to navigate life's challenges with greater confidence and ease.
Quest for Life invites anyone facing personal, emotional or life pressures to this empowering one-day workshop. Take time out to reconnect with yourself, gain fresh perspectives, and learn simple, effective approaches that can help you respond more positively to whatever life brings.
For more information or to book your spot:
Workshop Fees
The cost to attend is $150 ($120 for eligible concession card holders, e.g. seniors/students), and includes morning tea, all materials and a copy of Petrea King’s book Your Life Matters. Concession card must be shown on arrival at the workshop.
TOPICS
- How to build resilience and peace of mind
- Relaxation and visualisation as practical and effective tools for challenging circumstances
- Symptoms of stress and what helps
- Meditation and mindfulness as a foundation for living
- Moving from reaction to response
- How to manage emotions and recognise burnout and to identify what helps
- Regulating our emotions
- Language of reaction and response
EXPECTED OUTCOMES
- Highly motivated to implement strategies for self-care
- Excited, rather than overwhelmed by life
- Deeper understanding of neuroplasticity and the brain’s ability to change
- Equipped with tools and strategies for remaining calm during change or turbulence
- A greater respect for an individual’s ‘story’
- Feeling empowered in difficult circumstances
You will be nurtured, nourished and restored with the confidence to embrace your life again.