Sarah Murray is a long-time environmental activist with most of her work revolving around local fashion. She is currently the program coordinator for Vancouver Community College's fashion program. When she isn’t on campus, she is writing a textbook and building community with fashionistas and activists through her facilitation work. She is a member of Protect the Planet Stop TMX, Gendclusive Supply, and the BC Fashion Educators Coalition.
Why I am called to facilitate the Work
As I continue my learning path moving into ancestral healing, trauma work and more, I always return to WTR. It is foundational. The concepts of viewing ourselves as Gaia and feeling into that connection, I believe are essential to our healing.
I love the ceremony and the customization of WTR. The simplicity, the relative ease of moving from online to in person, the deep consideration and care for the participants, all makes WTR such a valuable facilitation tool. The learning it offers me when I participate and host, and how it mixes with other facilitation practices like liberating structures and u.lab, further endears it to me.
When people leave a session they say they feel grounded, connected, enlivened and ready to move forward with active hope. The magic of WTR has happened.
Joanna is the original disruptor of business as usual, and I am honoured to embody her whenever I host a WTR workshop.
How I see the Work serving the Great Turning
I have been utilizing WTR in my work as a teacher and beyond. The practices may seem far from the world of fashion, yet even designers and marketers need to realize themselves as nature, if we are to move into the Great Turning. All of my work in fashion has been focused on sustainability, since discovering WTR, it has broadened to ensure it is creating a life sustaining society. This gets expressed in my fashion forecasting class as an intuition and observation journal, every class starts with a weekly gratitude check in, and we have played with the Storytellers’ Convention too.
I have also taken WTR to the college community with workshops on gratitude and full spiral experiences for the department of nursing. I am also involved in activist work and have hosted grief ceremonies for anti-pipeline activists.
I believe all these diverse audiences must play a role in the Great Turning.
Audiences I work with
activists and fashion industry
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