# Max Milne

> Therapist, tinkerer, community builder. Providing structure to support others' creative expression.

Hi, I'm Max. I build containers. Some hold feelings. Some hold movement. Some hold code.

On different days I work as a therapist, facilitator, systems designer, creative director, and tool maker. I live in Melbourne, Australia.

## Current containers

- **Social Meditation** — Mondays, online, 6–6:40am AEST. A free group practice for noticing experience and speaking it aloud in real time. [Join a session](https://lu.ma/user/maxmilne).
- **Dance Floor** — Thursdays, Thornbury, 7–9pm. Conscious dance with enough structure to help people find their own movement. [Tickets](https://events.humanitix.com/dancefloor-melbourne/tickets).
- **Talk. Art. Therapy.** — in development. Counselling that brings conversation, art, and contemplative attention into the same room. [Learn more](https://maxmilne.com/work/talk-art-therapy/).

## Explore

- [About](https://maxmilne.com/about.md): background, training, and approach.
- [Work](https://maxmilne.com/work.md): commercial, artistic, and community projects.
- [Writing](https://maxmilne.com/writing.md): essays and notes.
- [Tools](https://maxmilne.com/tools.md): privacy-first software and practical resources.
- [CV](https://maxmilne.com/cv.md): full professional history.
- [Book a session](https://maxmilne.com/booking.md): counselling details and contact.

## Recent writing

- [I added offline voice typing to my Qin F22](https://maxmilne.com/qin-f22-offline-dictation.md): Oct 2026 — I wanted a keypad phone with dictation so I could finish a message and put it down sooner. This is my first working version.
- [Curation is king — my AI learning resources](https://maxmilne.com/curated_ai_resources.md): Apr 2026 — A curated list of AI learning resources worth trusting, with an experience-level key for finding the right entry point.
- [The Assumption Box Method: Visual Co-Design with AI](https://maxmilne.com/visual-co-design.md): Feb 2026 — For me, the whole intention of AI is to help maintain a creative flow. But chat interfaces are linear—endless scrolls of text. For a visual thinker, a text box is a constraint.
- [Social Meditation - "Formless practice" reflection](https://maxmilne.com/formless-practice-permission-to-play.md): Jan 2026 — Children move from formlessness to form. Adults move back—unlearning to remember.
- [Social Meditation Practice](https://maxmilne.com/what-is-social-meditation.md): Nov 2025 — A relational practice where people meditate together while speaking their experience aloud. Free sessions Monday–Thursday, 6:30am AEST.

## Machine-readable

- [llms.txt](https://maxmilne.com/llms.txt): a short index for AI assistants.
- [Full site text](https://maxmilne.com/llms-full.txt): every public page in one Markdown file.