Environmentallyabled

Introducing Give & Grow: 30 Minutes for the Environment 🌱
One voice | One cause | One invitation to act.

Give & Grow is a free, online initiative where environmental organisations, community groups, and passionate individuals come together to share what they do, why it matters, and how others can get involved.

Every session, one speaker takes the stage for 30 minutes — to share their work, inspire others, and extend one clear invitation to act.
Then we open it up for questions and conversation.

This is for you whether you want to:
🎤 Share your work as a speaker
👂 Show up and discover what others are doing
🌱 Find your next way to get involved

Free. Online. Open to everyone.
No environmental background needed — just a willingness to show up for the environment. 🌍

Our next session is coming up — register now via the link in our bio and save your spot.
Sessions run via Zoom and are completely free. 💚

To speak at a future session, drop a comment below or send us a DM. 💬

🌱 Our next gathering is here.
Connected in Nature: What We Carry, What We Plant
A space to sit with the weight of what is happening to our environment and leave with one small, personal act to call your own.
📅 Saturday 13 June 2026
🕙 10:00am sharp
📍 Bennelong Lawn, Sydney
♻️ Plastic free — As a community rooted in care for the environment, we’re keeping our footprint light.

Spaces are limited. Link in bio to register. 💚

EnvironmentallyAbled’s first gathering 🌱

Our first curated gathering centred around one simple yet profound theme:
✨Our connection to nature✨

In the heart of the city, where the built and natural environment meet, we created a space to pause, reflect, write, listen, and share.
We began by introducing ourselves through the lens of our work and how nature influences it.

Through a guided mindfulness session, participants were invited to connect with:

✨ Their present self
✨ Their younger self
✨ Their connection to the environment

What unfolded afterward was incredibly moving 💚

People shared stories of family trips where they first truly felt connected with nature. Someone spoke about how watching a documentary sparked a curiosity so deep that it eventually guided them toward pursuing environmental work as a career.

Others reflected on how working for the environment and inspiring people to take action gives them a feeling of warmth, safety, and purpose.

There were stories of witnessing a butterfly migration that brought awe vividly into life, and memories of youth camps in nature that quietly shaped the path toward the work they do today.

One reflection that stayed with me deeply was this:
Sometimes connection begins simply by being around another living being 🐶

People wrote, reflected, shared stories, and listened to one another with presence. For a moment, in the middle of the city, it felt like we had created space to reconnect not only with nature, but with parts of ourselves that often get lost in everyday life.

Thank you to everyone who came with openness and curiosity. This truly felt like the beginning of something meaningful 🌱

Something I dreamed of since 2015 finally happened on Saturday. The first ever EnvironmentallyAbled in-person gathering 🌱

I sat with the most caring, passionate people and honestly, I was overwhelmed in the best way possible.

But this moment didn’t belong to just one day. It was built over years, by people who showed up at exactly the right time.

and , you helped me plant the very first seed back in 2018, bringing my thoughts alive on social media when this was just a spark✨

, for always being there, listening to every idea, giving them structure, and always asking the most important question: is this truly serving the environment and the community?💡

Life happened, as it does. And for a while, EnvironmentallyAbled stayed in my heart but not in the world.

Then came Jeremy Thomas .au, whose guidance and introduction to the Digital Storytellers gave me the itch to begin again 🌱

And Jessica Cheong, who introduced me to Juan Pablo Gutierrez, who gave me the ultimatum that finally made this first nature-based gathering possible😄

And then there are those who showed up with so much heart on the day itself.

singh_02, my ever-present support, part of every initiative I’ve ever taken on. Thank you for always being there♥️

Eugenie and Carol, for the love, encouragement, and continued belief in what we’re building🫶

Cesar Moreno B and Rachel Platenik, for being part of this community, sharing your passion so openly, and bringing such warmth and support 😊

And Kate Cowper, school career counsellor and mother, who introduced her daughter Charlotte to this event. And Charlotte, in Year 12, who chose to show up all by herself and celebrate this with us. That meant the world🌍

EnvironmentallyAbled was never built by one person. I have always been the medium, the connector. This community was built by every one of these people, and by everyone who believed in it.

Now I want you to be part of it too. Bring your ideas. Let’s make them alive together 🤝

More to come very soon. 👀

Dr Jane Goodall
Thank you ♥️

Last year, I had the privilege of attending her tour in Sydney. In that room, listening to her speak, I felt a deep renewal of belief.

Belief in possibility
Belief in our responsibility
Belief in ourselves

She showed us how courage, compassion, curiosity and persistence can really move mountains.

For me, Dr. Jane’s legacy is personal: she helped me believe that I can make a difference too, that every voice, every act, even small and imperfect, matters.

Rest in peace, Dr Jane Goodall. Your work is far from over, in the hearts and actions of all of us who carry forward your message.

With hope, we can do anything.

🌳Hanging out with my favourite tree.
Jacaranda mimosifolia.

🎞️Thank you for capturing this moment.
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