The Possibility Fellowship
A 12-week journey into what’s possible, together
The Possibility Fellowship is a 12-week in-person course weaving together storytelling, warm data labs and embodied practice. It offers an embodied understanding of how the quality of our relationships and our capacity to commune is the foundation of community.
The course nourishes our individual and collective capacity to adapt to the ever-changing complexities of life, finding new ways of living together that are enlivening for us all. It is a unique mutual learning journey, run once a year for community-minded people who care about growing more inclusive and connected communities. Dates, venue and cost are confirmed ahead of each new intake, so please reach out anytime if you’d like these details before applying.
The Fellowship is hosted by our team at Befriend and has grown a community of over fifty alumni across Western Australia.
Why this course
Our lives are increasingly divided and polarised. How well we respond to personal and societal crises depends on our ability to improvise and learn together. Yet attempts to solve complex issues often unwittingly perpetuate the same problems.
The Possibility Fellowship offers a deep dive into theory and practice toward a shift in perception. The journey is both playful and profound. Through storytelling, gift discovery, warm data labs, focusing, poetry, games and play, the Fellowship is an intellectual, emotional, and embodied felt-sense exploration.
What makes life worth living?
What inner shift is possible if we are to live in another way?
You don’t need to have language for any of this yet. Many people arrive simply feeling curious and wanting to explore a different way.
This tension, between how nature moves and how we’re taught to think, sits at the heart of what the Fellowship explores.
"The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think."
This course may be for you if
- You wish to connect more deeply with yourself and others
- You’re at a crossroads in your life, looking for direction and inspiration
- You’re active in community, supporting or advocating for marginalised groups and social justice
- Your domain is policy, research, scholarship, science, writing or art and you’re drawn to this kind of exploration
What you are likely to experience
Communing with genuine appreciation and deep respect for our common humanity as the foundation of community.
Making and deepening relationships within and beyond your Fellowship group.
Reviewing your assumptions and perhaps seeing life and the world differently. Gaining confidence and inspiration for combining with others and taking meaningful action.
Tending the question: “Who can I be with you, and who can you be with me?“
Some of what this looks like in practice:
- Warm data labs: thoughtful conversations in small groups, making sense of wise philosophical quotes and finding new ways of seeing the bigger picture together
- Storytelling: listening deeply to others’ stories of hope and fear, success and failure, loneliness and belonging
- Gift discovery: personal reflection exercises and small-group activities that help uncover the strengths and gifts we bring to community
- Embodied practice: hands-on, playful craft experiences that help visualise and design what a more connected future might look like, alongside movement and play that gets us out of our heads
- Focusing: quiet, guided moments of checking in with what we’re really feeling, before trying to think or talk our way through it
Peter le Breton
A free-range elder with a background in business, government and education. Peter holds a PhD in Transformative Studies, is a certified Warm Data Lab Host, and has received citations from Murdoch University and the Australian Government for outstanding contributions to student learning.
Nicola-Jane le Breton
A passionate storyteller, Certified Trainer and Advanced Master Facilitator of the Core Gift Discovery process, Warm Data Lab Host, and Focusing Trainer with The International Focusing Institute (TIFI). Nicola thrives on connecting people and opening transformative possibilities through story.
What alumni say
“Words would never be enough to express my journey throughout the Fellowship. It was a story-filled exploration of what’s possible, reimagining new possibilities for me, others and the world.” — Patricia Villa
“When I started I was in limbo. I learned that my community work doesn’t have to be grand, it can start from the people all around me. The Fellowship gave me clarity about my gifts and confidence to give them.” — Leo Wu
“This was a course without a detectable rudder, steering us unerringly toward our own greater identity and therefore our greater inspiration.” — Carla van Raay
“Much like the surprises from a childhood foray into gardening, I continuously find myself pleasantly surprised and grateful for what doors have opened since.” — Kim Hutchinson
Ready to explore what is possible?
The Fellowship runs once a year and places are limited. If something here has resonated with you, please share your details below and we will be in touch personally when the next intake opens. Your details will only be used to contact you about the Possibility Fellowship.
We want the Fellowship to be accessible to as many people as possible. If you have any access needs, please reach out beforehand so we can make sure the experience works for you.
If you would prefer to reach out directly, we would love to hear from you at peter@befriend.org.au or nicola@befriend.org.au.