Connections
Helping you find new events, new friends and communities that might otherwise remain just outside your orbit.
A calmer way to find the gatherings that matter.
Conscious events are scattered across organiser sites, social feeds, ticket pages and community calendars. This project brings those signals into one navigable place.
One trusted doorway into a scattered world.
Some of the most meaningful gatherings are also the hardest to find. They live in Facebook posts, Instagram stories, mailing lists, venue calendars, ticketing sites and conversations between friends. If you are not already following the right people, or if social media makes your brain quietly leave the building, you can miss an entire community that is gathering nearby.
Conscious Events brings those fragments together. The goal is not simply to make a larger list. It is to create a calmer, more useful guide: one where you can browse by region, time and interest; understand what an event is really about; meet the people behind it; and follow the original source before deciding to attend.
The vision is bigger than a calendar.
Over time, this can become community infrastructure. Visitors should be able to discover unfamiliar practices without feeling lost. Facilitators should be able to claim and improve their listings. Regional stewards should help keep local information accurate. Participants should be able to contribute corrections, thoughtful feedback and carefully designed anonymous feedback when speaking publicly feels difficult.
We also want to encourage consent excellence: not a simplistic score that declares an event “safe”, but constructive signals about communication, boundaries, inclusion, accountability and how thoughtfully a space is held. The aim is to help excellent facilitators become visible and help every organiser keep learning.
Human judgement, helped by good tools.
Software and AI can help find sources, notice changes and prepare possible updates. They should not quietly turn guesses into facts. Listings retain their sources, uncertain information should be labelled, and important changes can move through review. The database gives the project memory; local stewards and community contributors give it context.
Where this could go.
Today, the focus is events across Brisbane and nearby regions. Tomorrow, the same model could support more places, richer event pages, personal calendars, facilitator profiles, community connections, mobile apps and carefully moderated feedback without turning discovery into another noisy attention feed.
This is intended to remain welcoming to people who are deeply immersed in conscious community and people who are merely curious. You do not need spiritual credentials, a perfect vocabulary or an impressive linen wardrobe. You only need somewhere you might like to go.
Read our principlesCommunity
A shared catalogue becomes stronger when participants, facilitators and regional stewards can improve it together.
Consent
Encouraging clarity, accountability and continual learning without pretending that a single badge can guarantee safety.
A note from Andrew
Why I wanted to build this.
I’m Andrew Noske. Being famously bad at social media is only the comic origin story. I wanted one organised calendar that makes it genuinely easy to see what is happening, where it is happening and what a gathering is really offering.
I also want these communities to become friendlier, clearer and safer. I have heard too many painful stories from women I care about, while public reporting continues to expose misconduct and failures of accountability in dance and spiritual communities both overseas and here in Australia.
A calendar cannot certify that a space is safe. It can make expectations clearer, preserve sources, invite thoughtful feedback and help organisers pursue consent excellence. This project is my attempt to combine useful organisation with genuine community care.
Meet Andrew