DubBoogie Nights
4 May 2014Dubbo Slide Night
7 May 2014
Design a mental health break that demonstrates how easy self-care can be.
The Moment Lounge began with the idea of offering a mini retreat as part of the Dubbo Women's Festival. The result was a space for stillness, breath, and the kind of quiet that changes everything.
We set up the spa-like retreat in the Black Box Theatre with soft furnishings, calming lights, and plants. Playing on a loop was a quiet film demonstrating gentle stretches, guided self-care, breath work, and mindfulness. Women were supported with child minding if they needed.
It is a testament to what happens when women actively support other women’s well-being through intentional, grounded action.
Every moment of pause is a chance to return to ourselves. That is powerful.
Good People doing Great things
Rose Prout and Charnie Tuckey funded and shaped the space from day one — not just with financial support, but with shared vision and community care.
Rose, founder of Centric Movement, is a trauma-informed practitioner and movement educator whose calm, strength-centred approach offers women a new relationship with their bodies. Her belief in embodied healing and local connection made her a natural supporter of this space.
Charnie Tuckey, a holistic counsellor, speaker, and businesswoman, brings deep care to every conversation — whether one-on-one in her practice or through community events. She was a featured guest at our 2024 Taco’Bout It session, where she explored the power of uncertainty, emotional resilience, and how mindfulness can be a daily practice of self-reconnection.
"Taking a moment doesn’t have to be big or dramatic — it just needs to be yours. That space between inhale and exhale? That’s where we find ourselves again."
– Charnie Tuckey
With support from curator and filmmaker Erifili Davies (Studio 138), The Moment Lounge included guided breath work and meditation and six local women across generations, demonstrating gentle stretches filmed on Centric Movement’s deck surrounded by greenery.
This kind of local, values-aligned sponsorship captures what Social Gain stands for: partnerships that go beyond logos. It’s about bringing good people together to do great things ~ like these amazing women creating a cut-through experience.
The Moment Lounge shows what happens when community vision is funded with trust, time, and aligned purpose.
A Bigger Picture
The Moment Lounge is evolving — creatively and visually — while holding to its heart of taking time to stop, breathe, and practice mindfulness for personal and collective well-being.
The film will be curated works of regional artist Kim V. Goldsmith, who blends sound, photography, and video reflecting rural NSW’s social and environmental ecologies.
It's a slight shift from retreat to reflection — from “me time” to “place time.”
Stillness, movement, landscape, story — all wrapped in a space that asks quietly: are you willing to take a moment?
