About us
Human.Kind is founded and owned by Tessa Leon and Triton Tunis-Mitchell, partners in both business and love.
As we witnessed the changing state of the climate and social upheaval, we wanted to create a business that did more than personal work. We wanted to widen our circles of care and stretch our impact as far as possible. We renamed the business Human.Kind and began to focus on the intersectional work of not only individual, but also social, and environmental transformation.
How we describe Human.Kind is redefined regularly; right now we call ourselves “a centre for interconnection and care”.
The studio in function serves like a mother tree in a forest, creating networks of support and redistribution of resources within our community. We have a team of world-class facilitators and therapists who help make this level of care possible. And our reach, whilst most concentrated in Adelaide, now spans out across Australia and internationally.
On the daily level, this looks like physical practices including yoga, pilates, strength, and meditation. Our allied health practitioners take in the body (physiotherapy and remedial massage) and the mind (counselling, clinical psychology). All are committed to empowering people to create lives of meaning and contribute to human flourishing.
We believe that true health is interpersonal. As we collectively build these skills in care, we foster a more thriving and compassionate society. This expands into our environment and all ecosystems we depend on.
Our work fluxes from the internal to the external. Like the breath. We inhale to resource and gather ourselves, we exhale to offer support and share what we can.
“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. I may never complete the last one but I give myself to it.”
RAINER MARIA RILKE
1. We believe healthy humans can help others.
This is our theory of change. We help people flourish. Physically, mental, and emotionally. So that with these resources, they have more capacity to support others. This model is a distributive economy of health. Give what you can and take what you need.
2. Connected communities are resilient communities.
The more connections a system has, the stronger it becomes. Inspired by underground mycelium networks, we cultivate thriving and sustainable ecosystems of people, places, and ideas. We pursue depth and diversity.
3. We care for the environment like our lives depend on it.
We train in fierce compassion. In the face of uncertainty, we stay engaged with the difficulties and opportunities of our time. We expand our circles of care to all life on this planet, present and future. We de-center human superiority (colonial mentality) to temper greed or apathy with the deeper fulfilment of contribution.
4. We hold space for the chaos and beauty within ourselves and the world.
Because life gets messy and none of us are perfect. Things are complex and we may never see the whole story. So we meet each other where we’re at. Take a broad perspective. We offer gentle doorways to healing, peace, and inner refuge. We courageously remember our shared humanity.