This is a mental health positive safe space for individuals, carers and supporters to connect, learn and share experiences through live video chat.
Luminous Steps demonstrates that talking about our relationships and circumstances with others who have shared understanding is a powerful and cathartic tool for wellness.
We understand that accessing a support group can be very challenging at times. Luminous Steps offers a unique alternative to traditional face to face meetings by allowing participants to come together and do meaningful work from the privacy of their own home.
Luminous Steps acknowledges the experiences and stories of expertise that our online community brings to these group places. We know that talking about our relationships and circumstances with others who have shared understanding is a powerful and cathartic tool for wellness.
Some times in life its easier to take a step back – from our families, friends, social groups and community. Removing ourselves from difficult situations is a good survival strategy in the short term. However, a sense of belonging and genuine positive connections are core needs for our happiness. Luminous Steps walks along the path with you back to meaningful relationships and positivity.
We understand that accessing a support group can be very challenging at times. Luminous Steps offers a unique alternative to traditional face to face meetings by allowing participants to come together and do meaningful work from the privacy of their own home.
In facilitated group work we form new relationships. These positive interactions can noticeably improve our feeling of wellbeing. Spending time in an environment of likeminded people is very powerful.
Challenging ourselves to connect with others in a safe online environment and participating in a collective helps us to feel connected to others. This strength in community helps us move forward.
Join in conversations with others who have identified similar life priorities to your own. Feel confident that our facilitated conversations adhere to our values of respect, transparency and confidentiality.
Hear stories about what works for other people and apply this knowledge to enrich your own journey. You are the expert of your own experience. Your knowledge is powerful too, and may support other people to be able to bring about positive change in their lives.
A sense of belonging can be so powerful that it can create both value in life and the ability to learn healthy coping skills when experiencing intensive and painful emotions. Make a choice to belong. Join something that is powerful for everyone involved.
Allow yourself the opportunity to talk about the difficulties of managing strong behaviours. It is physically and emotionally hard work managing difficult behaviour. Luminous Steps is a safe place to have these challenging conversations.
Actively listen to other people’s challenges and goals, and share you own ideas. Plan together acts of community participation. Get support in place for developing your own sense of community and cultivate your own local connections.
Often feeling isolated and alone gets in the way of making positive choices. It helps to be a part of something, talking and working with others to put in place real life changes. Sharing our success and opportunities for further development really helps with our motivation to start moving forward.
Be part of a new way of communicating. A new way of getting support. Make powerful changes in your life, in a flexible way that suits you. Join our professional online groups and make a commitment to change today.
If you aren’t currently on the NDIS and would like further information, please contact us.
Fill in the Join Us drop box on the website. Select a group that seems like a good fit for you or suggest a group type that you would be interested in attending in the future. Fill in your name and email address. One of our staff will get back to you via email to follow up with the next steps to complete your membership.
The group work service is available to run on phone, tablet, laptop or computer for your convenience.
Luminous Steps offers a number of groups running throughout the year. Our focus is on individuals, carers and supporters who need a space to connect and an opportunity to do some work around improving wellness. All of our group work is done from a Narrative Therapy perspective with professional facilitators.
Initially, we will be offering groups around:
Selfcare For Carers
Fostering emotional resilience.
We Tell Our Story
For individuals living in the community with a disability.
Feeling Connected
A journey back into the community for those who wish to reconnect.
Buried Treasures
For individuals who wish to reclaim and declutter their home environment.
As a boutique organisation we have the flexibility to respond to your feedback. We will offer future groups around the identified needs of our community.
Joining our online group community involves providing Luminous Steps with your email address. We have full website security and private maintenance. We use a teleconferencing service that comes with guaranteed security and confidentiality. In addition to these measures we do not deal directly with funds. We use holding companies such as PayPal or the internal system of the Federal Government for our National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) based payments
Luminous Steps bills as a service provider of Specialist Positive Behaviour Support, Improved Relationships. As such we bill at government assessed rates. Typically, our groups run for 2 hours per session. We are able to invoice the NDIS directly where appropriate. We also have PayPal for direct payment. Multiple group sessions will be provided at a discounted rate. Please talk to us about any affordability concerns you may have.
If you aren’t currently on the NDIS and would like further information on paying for Luminous Steps with other methods, please contact us
Luminous Steps demonstrates that talking about our relationships and circumstances with others who have shared understanding is a powerful and cathartic tool for wellness.
To talk with one of our experts, please fill out our form and one of our friendly staff will be in touch with you as soon as possible.