OHM Gathering 2025
A participatory gathering to connect, share, and grow a self-organising system for collective flourishing.
🗓 28–30 November 2025
📍 Kombumerri Country — Natural Bridge, QLD
What to Expect
OHM Gatherings are safe and inclusive, alcohol- and drug-free spaces where people of all ages and backgrounds come together to connect, share, and co-create in a loving and supportive environment.
This year we return to our stunning 2021 site — complete with a spring-fed swimming hole, communal kitchen, wood-fired hot tub, and camping for 150 people. Everything needed for three days of collective creation.
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Everything at OHM is gifted and curated by the community — from infrastructure and meals to performances and care. Each gathering becomes a living experiment in generosity and self-organisation, where people can give what they can, receive what they need, and explore new ways of relating beyond transactions and hierarchies.Â
Click the buttons below for a taste of our previous gatherings.
Feature Offerings
OHM Gatherings are co-created by the community, for the community. There’s no central theme — except diversity and inclusion itself.
Expect three days of art, music, science, wellbeing, culture, and shared meals — all gifted in the spirit of collaboration, not transaction.
We’ll share a communal meal on the Saturday, before coming together for a ceremonial effigy burn that night.Â
Here’s some of the amazing feature artists and facilitators who’ve offered their gifts — and been selected by the community:Â
Why We Gather
We live in uncertain times — marked by inequality, misinformation, and ecological breakdown. Our current systems are failing to respond.
OHM Gatherings create space for genuine connection and experimentation — where people can explore new ways of organising based on transparency, trust, and shared values.
Each gathering is both a celebration and a living experiment: exploring how generosity and collaboration can replace greed and competition.
How We're Organising
Behind the scenes, OHM is developing a new framework for communities to recognise and reward diverse contributions — fairly, transparently, and collectively.
This year marks the release of our new app, Wisdom, and our first full-scale test of the model in a live setting: organising and curating OHM Gathering 2025.
By participating, you’re helping prototype a regenerative, participatory system — one rooted in openness, autonomy, and reciprocity, where every act of contribution helps grow the whole.
Progress So Far
Over the past few months, our community has reviewed and selected a diverse range of offerings through Wisdom — from performances and workshops to roles and resources. With these foundations in place, our focus now turns to bringing the gathering to life.
Our greatest remaining needs are:
💸 Financial Contributions — Covering site hire, food, and logistics
🤝 Service Offerings — Driver with vehicle to transport effigy, Kitchen volunteers
🎨 Resources — Decorations for main stage
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How To Join
You can participate by making a financial contribution or volunteer/resource offering via our Luma page. Contribution levels have been established through collective review in Wisdom to represent a Fair Share for everyone involved.
Every contribution helps grow a fair and open system for collective flourishing, while giving you access to OHM events and recognition through Wisdom.
Click the “Register” button below or at the top of this page to get started.
FAQ
Yes — all participants must register through Luma.
Select the Volunteer option at checkout and let us know how else you’d like to contribute.
The Fair Share has been calculated through Wisdom to equal a fair amount of value across all contribution types. It allows us to compare very different things, like money and volunteering and resources, with respect to our collective mission.Â
Yes. The gathering will be drug- and alcohol-free, and feature a kids space with dedicated programming. We’re also offering a limited number of parental discounts to offset the time and energy required to bring children along.Â
We’re planning to use Wisdom to recognise all forms of value at the gathering and distribute surplus funds to people who have provided more than a Fair Share.
Yes please! You can make a financial donation, or get in touch to discuss other ways to help our mission.Â