Helpful walking experiences.
At the nicest parks in the inner-city.
Early-mornings, evenings and weekends.
Pay-as-you-feel.
Walking-Therapy
A walking peer-support group focused on having therapeutic conversations in serene walking trails around Melbourne.
Coaching-Walks
A walking mastermind group, tribe-of-mentors that focuses on peer-to-peer coaching conversations in inspiring walking trails.
Mindful-Walking
A spiritual community that focuses on mindful walking in illuminating walking-trails to ground oneself and awaken to one’s present experience.
Hustle-and-Walk
A business-mentorship accelerator focusing on helping people grow their core values-driven side-hustle into a viable business or career.
All Meetup Events
Including Walking-Therapy, Mindful-Walking, Coaching-Walks and Walk-and-Hustle.
Thomas Burnside
Counsellor, wellness-coach, meditation-teacher and digital consultant
Greetings, friend.
I have struggled with mental-health issues over the years. Mostly crippling social anxiety and disabling ADHD that made it impossible to succeed.
Professionals and peers have helped me a lot by supporting and coaching me. Those relationships helped me change my life. That is how I learned the power of helping conversations, relationships and community.
But I have been helping myself too by doing mindful-walking almost everyday. What I love about mindful-walking is that it’s something I could do no matter how broke, alone or unwell I was… it has rewired my brain to be grounded, calm, focused and resilient.
In 2024 I started running my first walking-group: MelbWalks. It focused on long walks in scenic places. With 10-50 people coming to our events on average I considered it to be quite a success. This experience taught me that (1) walking is an extremely popular activity, and (2) walking is a great activity for talking with people.
Social and scenic walks taught me a lot and helped improve my self-confidence – but scenic, social walks wasn’t my passion. I wanted to help people the same way people helped me.
That’s how I came to the idea for Wellbeing-Walking. It’s a walking group that acts as the supportive community many people need, focusing on:
- Walking-therapy
- Mindful-walking
- Coaching-walks