Welcome to The Slow Work Garden, a collective of creative facilitators dedicated to the design and living of slow work.

Our guiding inquiry

What if we learnt to slow down together?

Our guiding context

We live in a time of planetary emergency that is difficult even to think about. Huge shifts are needed in order to build a regenerative future for ourselves and our planet. But the fast pace of modernity and its relentless pursuit of ‘more’ keeps us distracted and exhausted. The world around us suffers as we make choices out of convenience, profit and efficiency, rather than choices aligned with our own values. It’s increasingly difficult for even highly ‘purpose-driven’ people and organisations to separate from the idea that productivity and speed = worth and success. We must engage in a paradox: the act of urgently slowing down.

Our guiding belief

We believe it’s possible to live a generative life in rhythm with the natural order of things; to learn to re-ritualise our lives, sit with the anxieties of our souls, and give life to other ways of knowing and being.

Our intention for gathering

We come together to co-create a living pedagogy of slow work for individual and collective regeneration, and as a community of practice who can work with some of the most pressing issues of our time.

Our work