Join us in the antipodes at the edge of the world, the home to the oldest living culture on earth.
Impact Safari Tasmania is for anyone interested in creating shifts in personal, organisational or cultural identities. Our Safaris cover ideas and frameworks across systems-thinking, regenerative economies, empathic leadership, connection to self and wild places.
Impact Safaris are designed for individuals who are actively mobilising their communities or organisations toward a thriving planet. This includes:
The programs are by application only, ensuring a diverse yet aligned cohort. Each journey is designed to challenge participants to rethink their roles in the world and deepen their capacity for leadership in service of a just and regenerative future
Those drawn to explore their place in deep time, connect and understand with how to embody their purpose and contribution to this moment. Retreat from the everyday and be reminded of our innate nature are invited to express interest.
Arrive in the city heart of Tasmania, Hobart. Be warmly welcomed by your guides Joshua & Jo Yeldham and Small Giants Team and connect your cohort. Dive into our opening circle, setting intention and laying the foundations of our time together. Spend the afternoon immersing in the art heart of this island. Share dinner with local friends, farm to table style.
After a delicious locally sourced breakfast, we will visit with local artists using their work to advance social, political and environmental activism. Onward to the threatened Grove of Giants down in the Huon Valley, the trees here can reach heights of 85 metres or more, with massive girths. Some are over 400 years old, standing as silent witnesses to centuries of ecological change. Bridging us into the wilderness. Share dinner with a special guest.
Opt into a Morning walk followed by a cold plunge. We will share morning tea with special guests working across business and storytelling. Before making our way to Corrina Wilderness Village, our base in the deep South West. Hike down to Huskisson River with our expert guides. Marvel at the ancient river systems and diverse wildlife sustained by this flowing force. As we hike, we will rest for conversation and connection beginning to understand the unique gift of takayna/Tarkine amongst 2000 year old Huon Pines. Our first night sleeping at the 'Old Pub' family style under a blanket of stars.
Wake with a gentle morning of meditation, after breakfast at Corrina we will aboard the historic MV Arcadia II, a magnificent craft built of Huon Pine in 1939 to cruise the Pieman River. We will share a new perspective of the waterways that breath life into this magical Country. Walk Mount Donaldson and opt in to feel the rush of the pristine rivers via Kayak. We will settle in for an evening of conversation with locals over dinner.
Today we will journey to Preminghana - a deeply significant cultural and natural site located in the far northwest. It's one of the most important Aboriginal heritage places in Tasmania and is protected as an Indigenous Protected Area (IPA). Formerly known as Mount Cameron West, the site was returned to Tasmanian Aboriginal ownership in 1995 and renamed Preminghana, meaning “the place of the spirits” in the language of the local Palawa people. Relax into the vast landscape,be guided by Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre guides and pause to reflect on your place in deep time.
Follow the rhythms of First Nations, Palawa people. Eat freshly caught seafood, foraged bush food and travel by foot accross this biodiverse coastal gem. Spend the afternoon in workshop, before sunset swims and fireside chats.
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Today we drive to Launceston. Sharing lunch at Stillwater, award winning restaurant, on the banks of the Kanamaluka/Tamar estuary. Visit local a saw-mill and meet with conservationists deploying pioneering technology through the East of Tasmania to protect endangered species, flora and fauna. Celebrate in a closing circle and say our goodbyes.
Jo Yeldham is a photographer and acupuncturist. She studied Chinese Traditional Medicine at UTS university and practiced acupuncture in Sydney for 15 years. She studied photography at the Australian Center for Photography in Paddington in her 20’s and has in the past 10 years contributed to Harper’s Bazaar Australia and Spain, Dumbo Feather , Walker’s Journal, Vogue Australia and the Financial Review magazine as well as working as a commerical photographer for Art Club and Kit X fashion brands. Jo has designed, edited and contributed to the Picador published book “Surrender” as well as exhibition catalogues that she collaborates with her partner Joshua Yeldham on their shared creative practice and home studio environment with their children Indigo and Jude.
Drawing from a deep spiritual affiliation with the land and a reverential love of nature, Joshua Yeldham’s art practice forms a complex interplay between narrative and myth, imagination and experience. Working across painting, photography, drawing and sculpture, the artist has developed a singular aesthetic that often conflates these various mediums. His distinctive visual language fuses the physical elements of the landscape with the metaphysical modalities of history and mythology..
In 2017 he was awarded the prestigious Nancy Fairfax Artist Residency at Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Arts Centre that culminated in a critically acclaimed survey exhibition. Yeldham has been a finalist in numerous prestigious awards including the Wynne Prize, Sulman Prize, Salon des Refusés and Mosman Art Prize and in 2015 he participated in the London Art Fair, ART15. He has won The Salon des Refusés People's Choice Award twice drawing critical acclaim. Yeldham’s work is held in many important collections including the National Gallery of Victoria, Mosman Art Gallery, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Australian Stock Exchange, University of Wollongong and BHP Billiton Collection, as well as numerous private collections in Australia and overseas.
Watch this short video on Joshua’s latest exhibition ‘In Return’.
You can learn more of Joshua Yeldham’s work here.
Simon Harris exists to inspire people in meaningful ways so that, together, each of us can help our wild places to survive and thrive. As the director of For Wild Places Simon leads community into immediate action to protect places of environmental and cultural significance using sports activism as the vehicle for linking human happiness and environmental well-being. Alongside Bob Brown Foundation, Simon founded and delivers the takayna trail, sponsored by Patagonia.
Anna is Head of Impact Safari at Small Giants Academy. She thrives on creating transformational impact experiences for our community by collaborating deeply with local knowledge. She is passionate about creating nurturing spaces for humans to be human and explore storied places across the globe through a local lens. As a trained death doula, Anna approaches her work and life with deep reverence to rites of passage and the cyclical way of being.
Away from her work with Small Giants Academy, Anna spends time plotting her own off-grid small home, dancing and road tripping the Australian coastlines with friends, collecting inspiration to imbue her work with.
This is an all-inclusive cost for the duration of the program, including accomodation, on ground travel, meals, intimate workshops with on-ground partners and an immersive leadership experience delivered by the faculty at Small Giants Academy.
This cost is exclusive of return flights from your origin to the program start.
Impact Safari is an initiative of Small Giants Academy, which is a registered not-for-profit charity. Our cancellation policy is intended to provide you with maximum flexibility while ensuring our team can make preparations to deliver the incredible experience you’re expecting.
Please notify us of a cancellation by email so we can provide you with a refund minus the following cancellation fees:
Smart move. To secure your place or ask any questions, please email Impact Safari Producer, Anna here:
Small Giants is located on the traditional lands of the Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.
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