Join Tania de Jong AM for a concert of famous, sacred, and lyrical songs, with excerpts from Carmen, George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story, Ave Maria by Schubert, Panis Angelicus by Franck, songs by Dvorak, Handel, Puccini, Edith Piaf, and more…
Date: Sunday 28 July 2024 at 6pm.
Location: Église de Murs (Saint Loup), 84220 MURS
Bookings: Please call 06 08 05 45 76 to book your ticket.
Mind Medicine Australia’s Melbourne event series is an opportunity to come together to connect and create space for your mental health and well-being.
Our November event will be facilitated by Dan Byrne and Tania de Jong AM.
Topic: Sound Healing, Loving Kindness and Connection Workshop
Our community Sound Bath experience has been designed to offer a transformative journey, where you will collectively weave a beautiful tapestry of sound, which bathes those in the centre in kindness and healing energy.
Date: Monday 18th November 2024
Time: Please arrive from 6:45pm for a 7pm start, finish at 9:00pm.
Join Tania de Jong AM and Dan Byrne for a special sound healing ceremony at the Peninsula Hot Springs.
Set in a beautiful Glasshouse at the Peninsula Hot Springs, this Sound Bath experience has been designed to offer a transformative journey, where you will collectively weave a beautiful tapestry of sound, which bathes those in the centre in kindness and healing energy.
Sound Healing with Tania de Jong AM & Dan Byrne in the Glasshouse will take place on Sunday 26 May 2024 from 3pm to 5:30pm. Guests will then join us for bathing at twilight in the Bath House.
Book now, don’t miss out! https://www.peninsulahotsprings.com/events/sound-healing-with-tania-de-jong-dan-byrne
We are delighted to invite you to attend:
Shroom Boom: The Magic of Mushrooms
Please join us for a delicious welcome drink and divine 3-course dinner from Chefs Joel Camp and Simon Naber of Moore and Moore Cafe. Our superfood menu will focus on mushrooms and other nootropics and our special Shaman and magical diva will create a sacred space raising our collective consciousness.
Be inspired by a mind-opening presentation and interactive conversation with Tania de Jong AM and Peter Hunt AM, the Founders of Mind Medicine Australia. They made global history in 2023 through their successful applications to the TGA which led to the rescheduling of psilocybin and MDMA from Prohibited Substances to Controlled Medicines, making Australia a leader in this rapidly emerging field. We have an increasing mental health crisis in Australia. You will learn how psychedelic-assisted therapies work to treat a range of conditions and how you can be part of the healing revolution!
On Saturday 27 April, we are joined by trail-blazing Australian soprano, global speaker and entrepreneur Tania de Jong AM as part of our Showcase Series.
Weaving together inspirational stories with some favourite musical songs, opera and original pieces, Tania de Jong is set to bring her creativity and innovation to the Amphitheatre stage this April. A creative catalyst for innovation, Tania has spent her career as a soprano, global speaker, award-winning social entrepreneur, philanthropist, and spiritual journey woman, leading her to become one of the most successful female entrepreneurs in the country.
Tania de Jong will perform from 6pm to 7pm on the Amphitheatre Stage on Saturday 27 April. Our ongoing Showcase Series is complimentary with Revitalise Bath House bathing.
First Published in The Spectator, 2 October 2023.
We all have a voice, but perhaps the greatest challenge to humanity right now is that our voices are being silenced.
Too often we silence, censor, attack, shame, and humiliate those we do not agree with. We live in a world where we are afraid to utter a word for fear it may offend someone and destroy our lives. We are divided. We are upside down and inside out; yes is no and no is yes, left is right and right is left, man is woman and woman is man, wrong is right and right is wrong.
We live in a democracy where our politicians, police, and public servants are supposed to serve, protect, and consult with us – not dictate to us and take away our freedoms. That is why we pay our taxes. Similarly, our media is supposed to encourage open and transparent dialogue, so why are diverse viewpoints censored and invalidated?
Did you know that in Australia, the Albanese government’s draft of its Misinformation and Disinformation Bill will, if passed, suppress legitimate free speech in Australia, akin to the ‘Ministry of Truth’ in George Orwell’s 1984? Proposed powers for combating misinformation and disinformation are inconsistent with a democracy that thrives by allowing dissenting views to be expressed and discussed freely. What makes this even more deplorable is that content published by the government, professional news outlets, and educational Institutions is to be exempted in the proposed legislation and will not be considered as misinformation!
It’s not the only parliamentary attack on free speech. Queensland’s Parliament is about to vote on the proposed criminal law bill which could see Australians face up to three years in jail for posting anything on social media visible in Queensland that the government deems ‘offensive’. This could include faith-based and political objections to gender confusion, gay marriage, and Indigenous issues. It promises a reality like that in Britain where police spend more time monitoring Facebook posts looking for objectionable statements than walking the beat.
There are other concerning developments emerging to further censor, control, subjugate, and silence us. The recent Nigel Farage debanking scandal rocked Britain and yet, in Australia, banks can lawfully ‘debank’ customers they deem to be engaged in ‘unacceptable account conduct’ which relates not just to their financial activities, but what they say and do.
For instance, the National Australia Bank’s updated terms and conditions say ‘making profane, derogatory, discriminatory or harassing comments’ or ‘making or promoting threatening or abusive language to any person’ could lead the bank to ‘suspend, cancel or deny an account holder’s access or use of the account, card or an electronic banking service’. What is such conduct and who defines it? Could use of the ‘wrong’ pronouns be classified as ‘profane, derogatory, discriminatory or harassing’?
Imagine your financial existence being taken away under these rules. Criticism of a public official arguably could be branded ‘misinformation’ and ‘threatening or abusive language’. How can we ever truly progress if we cannot be honest about the shortcomings of our society?
This is not how a democracy looks. We are in an era more befitting of a dystopian novel, in which creeping authoritarianism assaults our fundamental human and legal rights. If we truly profess to be a diverse, inclusive, and democratic nation, diversity of thought and freedom of speech really matter.
In the spirit of Voltaire: ‘I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.’
It is high time we start asking important questions such as:
When have I stayed silent and, in hindsight, wished I had spoken up?
Can I build bridges of understanding, and bring positive change, by speaking up?
What is the worst that could happen if I choose to speak, or ask a question, about something that deeply matters to me?
How do I maintain my presence, listen to my inner voice and speak honestly in uncomfortable circumstances and a world of distractions?
Staying silent allows tyranny, injustice, and atrocities to flourish. Silence keeps dark secrets hidden. Dietrich Bonhoeffer – an exceptional German Protestant minister during the Nazi regime – stated: ‘Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.’
In a democracy, no one’s voice should be silenced or censored.
Don’t sit in silence. Don’t live in fear.
There are many challenges facing human civilisation and our planet. However, if we remain silent and separate then we have only ourselves to blame for the eventual extinction of everything we have created.
Really listen to what your heart is saying. Then raise your God-given voice, speak your truth and help create the world you would like for your children and grandchildren. No one else will do it for you.
‘When I’m hungry, I eat. When I’m thirsty, I drink. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter,’ said Martin Luther King. How right he was. If it is possible to talk, to discuss, to debate without recrimination, the future might be shaped for the better. You have a voice: don’t let it be silenced.
A special thanks to the incredible Melbourne and Sydney audiences who made our hearts sing during Driftwood The Musical! Your overwhelming enthusiasm has propelled us towards the dazzling stages of Broadway.
We have received lovely reviews and testimonials.
Brace yourselves for an epic adventure as we take this sensational story to the Big Apple!
Tania was delighted to speak on the Future of Healthcare and Medicine for Vogue Codes and encourage more women and girls to take up STEM careers and also focus more on creating change in our healthcare system so that more Australians can lead happy, healthy and meaningful lives. Psychedelic-assisted therapies are achieving outstanding results to treat a range of mental illnesses.
Australia can be very proud of the fact that we are the first nation in the World to reschedule these medicines for medical purposes. Australia is now at the forefront of innovative leadership in the treatment of mental illness. Learn more and support psychedelic medicines through Mind Medicine Australia here.
Written by Scott Leckie and Tania de Jong
(As published in The Daily Telegraph on 16th February 2022)
The painful COVID-era will fade but it will never be forgotten. This unanticipated period will be remembered for many things – death, suffering, economic and social disruptions and words like lockdown, iso, quarantine, social distancing, Zoom, omicron…
Umbrella Foundation is delighted to present Driftwood – The Musical.
Watch the trailer and be inspired by this wonderful story!
Driftwood – The Musical tells the inspirational story of renowned Austrian/Australian sculptor Karl Duldig and his artist/inventor wife, Slawa Horowitz-Duldig, based on Eva de Jong-Duldig’s critically acclaimed memoir. We follow their lives in pre-war Vienna, Slawa’s ingenious invention of the foldable umbrella, and an incredible chain of events after miraculously escaping the Holocaust and rebuilding their careers as artists in Melbourne. (more…)
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