Know Thyself Retreat
Know Thyself is a 3-day spiritual retreat for those ready to awaken deeper self-awareness, inner peace, and radical compassion.
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Led by Reverend Lydia Fairhall and Mele-Ane Havea, Know Thyself is a 3-day spiritual retreat for those ready to awaken deeper self-awareness, inner peace, and radical compassion.
Rooted in ancient contemplative traditions and embodied practice, this retreat explores the sacred middle way, Re-anchoring in love, wisdom and stillness. A return to the universal truths that unite us.
In a world obsessed with doing, Know Thyself invites you to be. To explore what it means to be spiritually focused in a fractured world, and to realise that the peace we seek outside must first be found within.
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Meet your host
Lydia Fairhall
Lydia is a Conscious Leadership Facilitator. Her professional background is in executive arts leadership, festival curation and producing for theatre and film, in both urban and remote communities. She was previously the dual recipient of the Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship and the Australia Council for the Arts Community Arts and Cultural Development Fellowship, where she formed much of the work she does today in facilitating conscious leadership, spiritual direction and next economy transitions for both companies and individuals.
Lydia has a BA in Social Sciences and is currently undertaking post-graduate studies in theology. She enjoys a continued arts practice as a singer/songwriter and freelance writer, creating two back to back albums True North and The Narrows in 2019–21. Lydia loves to enjoy her free time either in the ocean, church or the bush, and outside of her work she enjoys a simple, quiet life with her partner and two children.
Mele-Ane Havea
A passionate and experienced governance professional, Mele-Ane’s work explores the intersection of cultural wisdom, purpose-led business, and the “next economy,” and believes in the immense power of storytelling for change. Mele-Ane holds an MBA from Oxford, where she was a fellow of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. She also has an LLB/BA from Monash University.
Mele has over 20 years of experience reporting to Boards and Board sub-committees with over 13 years of experience as a non-executive Director of Boards. Her experience spans ASX-listed companies, not-for-profits and for-purpose organisations across a wide range of sectors.
