Offered free to participating families through a successful crowdfunding campaign, the six-week program centred relational care, ecological grief, and narrative repair. It featured original therapeutic stories co-written and performed by Andrea and dan eleni, as well as song-sharing, bushwalking, nature play, and somatic creative practices using charcoal and found natural materials.

Through an accompanying social media campaign, dan eleni also documented her own children’s recovery journey, offering psycho-educational content and creative strategies for families navigating post-crisis adaptation. The project culminated in a participatory wildlife encounter facilitated by a WIRES volunteer, offering children the rare opportunity to contribute to animal rehabilitation through the release of two Kingfishers and a long-necked turtle at a beloved bush site on unceded Darug and Gundungurra Country.

Integrating principles from ecopsychology, expressive arts therapy, and place-based pedagogies, the project positioned storytelling and land connection as vital tools for processing trauma, restoring agency, and cultivating hope in the aftermath of ecological disaster.