My passion is creating a space to remember our deepest connections with all that is ~
with therapeutic & earth-based experiences, sound & music, and poetry & storytelling.

Biography

Moran Wiesel is a registered ACA counsellor and IICT ecotherapist, and has established themselves as an emerging multidisciplinary creative.

Moran has founded Earth Enspiralled, offering earth connection experiences & holistic counselling. Highlights include the takanya Deep Ecology Immersion, kunanyi moves, and Embodied Earth, Embodied Arts: Work that Reconnects (in partnership with Kickstart Arts). In 2019 Moran co-founded EarthWalks: Walking Connections in Country in mannalegna’s Country NE Tasmania.

As a spoken word poet & storyteller, Moran was Tasmanian finalist in the 2021 and 2022 Australian Poetry Slams, winner of the 2022 Huon Valley Mid-Winter Fest Storytellers Cup, and featured artist in the 2022 Tasmanian Storytelling Festival. Their written work is published in Quicksilver Waters: An Oasis Anthology and Earthwords & Artlings, among others. Currently, they are coordinator & editor of Friends of the Earth's national magazine, Chain Reaction.

As a harpist/flautist they have toured with Musica Viva in Schools’ “Adventures in Antarctica” around primary schools in so-called Australia. They offer therapeutic sound baths around nipaluna/Hobart, often as part of the duo Moran & Tim (with yidaki player Tim Devereux). Performance highlights include the Nayri Niara Good Spirit Festival, the Styx Forest, and Gunns Plains Caves. Moran studied flute with CSO flautist Teresa Rabe, acquiring an A.T.C.L. (Associate Trinity College London), Distinction, and with world-renowned harpists Alice Giles AM, Dr Jacinta Dennett, and Diana Rowan.

Moran thrives in collaborating across artforms to create works that deeply question our relationship with ourselves, community, earth, and the universe. They collaborate with Alice Giles AM to offer "Listening with the Body: A Harp Journey", premiered in Canberra and Sydney. With Dr Sue Stack they create multi-disciplanery performance experiences for children and adults, such as The Forest in My Backyard (selected for the TasPerforms Tarraleah Residency), and the toy theater work The Hollow Heart.

Moran has a Graduate Diploma in Counselling from the University of Tasmania, where they received the 2022 Roll of Excellence, a Diploma of Ecotherapy from Earth, Create, Heal, and a Bachelor of Arts, Degree with Honours (Geography) from the University of Melbourne, receiving the 2017 JJ Wood Prize, 2017 Deans Award List, 2018 Dwight Prize and Dux Honours Geography student.

Moran's therapeutic qualifications and trainings:

• Australian Counselling Association Member
• Graduate Diploma in Counselling – University of Tasmania
• Diploma of Ecotherapy – Earth, Create, Heal
• Haku Ho'oponopono Training (Master of Ho'oponopono Process) – Mana o Kahiko
• Trauma-Informed Leadership – Thomas Hübl & The Pocket Project
• Outdoor Therapy Training – Adventure Works
• Theatre of the Oppressed – Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble
• Embodying Anti-Racism – Let Love Move You
• Work that Reconnects/Deep Ecology Facilitator Circle – Music as Medicine
• Mental Health First Aid & Remote Area First Aid // Working with Vulnerable People Card

I live, work, and play on the stolen lands of the muwinina/palawa/pakana peoples in nipaluna, lutruwita/truwanna (so-called Hobart, Tasmania). I acknowledge that genocide is ongoing, and sovereignty has never been ceded. I acknowledge the sacredness of this land, and pay deepest respects to the past, present, and emerging custodians of these lands and waters. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.

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