Introducing Living Threads
Bespoke workshops for charities, social enterprises, and community-led initiatives offering reflective, embodied and relational approaches to collective care and change.
How do we remain present and responsive within complex, urgent systems?
There is a growing recognition that the quality of our attention matters. Practices that cultivate stillness, sensitivity, and embodied awareness begin to shape how we act, decide, and relate. From this place, action becomes more deliberate than reactive. Care extends beyond individual need. Relationship begins to replace control as a guiding principle.
For those designing regenerative systems or supporting ecological initiatives, this is not an “extra,” but a foundation for long-term, meaningful impact. The inner and outer world are never separate.
In my workshops, participants are invited into embodied practices of attention, movement, and reflection that support grounded and imaginative responses to the ecological and social conditions we are part of. Through cultivated awareness, we explore how personal practice is always already relational—shaping how we engage with others, systems, and the more-than-human world.
I ALSO WORK IN A 1-1 SETTING, MORE INFORMATION HERE
THREE THREADS OF PRACTICE
Inviting Stillness
Stillness creates space for direct experience. Through sensory awareness, we return to the body and the present moment, allowing patterns of thought and reaction to become visible rather than automatic.
Intentional Movement
Movement is more than physical exercise. It is a way of engaging the body with awareness; supporting clarity, emotional presence, and embodied intelligence. It also triggers the production of your brain's feel-good neurotransmitters (dopamine and endorphins) and strengthens the body-mind connection.
Deep Listening
Self-reflection and self-compassion helps us develop a greater self-awareness, which is a main component of our emotional intelligence. Whether through a conversation, further reading recommendations or by providing recorded meditations, my intention is to allow space that will foster a deeper sense of connection. Although I'm not a therapist myself, over the years, I've experienced the power of a simple conversation. Which is why a deep listening is a part of my method.
Qigong
In Qigong / Five Element theory (Wu Xing), everything is defined by its relationships—wood feeds fire, fire creates earth, etc. Health = dynamic balance between processes, not fixed states.
Engaged Buddhism
nothing exists independently; self and world are co-arising (Thich Nhat Hanh’s idea of “interbeing”).
Deep Ecology
coined by Arne Naess), humans are not separate from nature but expressions of it.
The shared insight: we are not individuals acting on a world; we are woven within living systems.
Context + Lineages
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“Kasia created a welcoming atmosphere for everyone involved. As creative director of The Active Looking Project I particularly appreciated the way they guided participants through both seated and standing activities as a standard baseline offer without fuss. Kasia’s sensitivity in sharing their lived experience of long‑term health conditions added depth and authenticity to the session and the feedback afterwards was excellent. Their thoughtful, responsive facilitation made the whole experience extremely positive. Highly recommended and a big thumbs up from Make it Better (mitber) CIC ."
Ruth Purdy, Creative Director of Make it Better CIC, Bespoke Workshop
Bespoke Workshops
In my workshops, participants are invited into embodied practices of attention, movement, and reflection that support grounded and imaginative responses to the ecological and social conditions we are part of. Through cultivated awareness, we explore how personal practice is always already relational—shaping how we engage with others, systems, and the more-than-human world.
Collective Care + Creative Action. Embodied practice for relational awareness and responsive action
Deep Listening. Cultivating presence, empathy, and relational perception
Nature Connection + the Five Elements. Exploring cyclical awareness through ecological embodiment
Seeing with Intention (Active Looking). Practices for perception, attention, and visual awareness.
Creative Process + the Five Elements. Supporting imagination, flow, and cyclical creativity through embodied awareness
The exchangeWorkshops are priced according to context, duration, and organisational capacity. I work on a sliding scale basis.
Standard 90–120 min workshop:
👉 £350
Low-income / grassroots organisations:
👉 £250 (supported rate)
Complex / bespoke / multi-stakeholder orgs:
👉 £400–£500+
If this work resonates but the suggested rates feel out of reach at the moment, you’re very welcome to get in touch. I’m open to exploring what might be possible.
Book a Session
kasiamurfet@gmail.com
Penryn, Cornwall UK
about kasia
I’m a multi-passionate, neurodivergent facilitator, researcher and photographer, connecting the dots between Engaged Buddhism, Meditation, Qigong and the Natural World. I hold a MA in Buddhist Studies with the University of South Wales and my research explored whether Zen can really be expressed through (Zen) Arts.
I’m passionate about Climate + Social Justice, Diversity and Inclusion. As a practicing Buddhist I believe that Buddhist principles and practices can be applied to address social, political, and environmental issues.
