Meet the facilitators

Portrait of Nicola Lester, a Rites of Passage facilitator, Buddhist teacher and Qi Gong instructor

Nicola Lester

Rites of Passage facilitator for women in midlife. Ordained Buddhist teacher. Shiatsu and East Asian therapist. Qi Gong instructor. Singer-songwriter.

Fifteen years guiding women through the thresholds that matter. Trained in complete systems of transformation.

Small and mighty. The real work begins here.

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Portrait of Tegan Crowley, a performer, voice and movement artist

Tegan Crowley

Tegan is a performer, voice and movement artist who co-facilitates the days — bringing story, play and embodiment into the room. She is the co founder of Burned Dinner Theatre.

Eartha Davis singing into a microphone at an intimate live performance, framed by fairy lights

Eartha Davis

Eartha is a woman of Ngāpuhi and Celtic heritage living on Wurundjeri land. She is the winner of the 2024 AAWP/Express Media Sudden Writing Prize, a 2026 Poetry In Action Ambassador and 2025 Varuna Fellow. Her writing has appeared in the Australian Poetry Anthology, Poetry Northwest, Wildness, Express Media, Cordite, Rabbit, takahē, Awa Wahine, and Plumwood Mountain Journal, among others. màthair beinn, her debut collection of poetry, is out now with Vagabond Press. Eartha brings her blazing creativity and inimitable joy to the Muse workshops.