Master of Science Honours (Social Ecology), Western Sydney University
Bachelor of Arts (Economics and Psychology majors), University of NSW
Diploma of Education, University of NSW
Certificate of Teaching, NSW Department of Education

I love supporting people in their journey of life and living their authentic potential. Personal growth, spiritual healing and transformation has always been my main area of interest. However, it was many years before it became my world of work.

I began work as a teacher of economics and commerce. After a few years, I moved across to the fields of professional learning and development, workforce capability development and leadership development. I worked in these areas for over 30 years as a manager, group facilitator, action researcher and organisational consultant – managing budgets up to $20M and teams, committees and groups across Australia and internationally. The areas I most enjoyed working in were project management, strategic planning, group facilitation, concept development, team leadership and action research. I particularly enjoyed project managing an innovative research project “Life Based Learning - a strength based approach for capability development in vocational and technical education”, being invited to speak and conduct workshops across Australia and overseas.

My work was primarily in large organisations (over 30,000 employees) and that enabled me to develop a deep understanding of the complexities, constant change, conflicting demands, paradoxes and uncertainty within the world of work. I noticed how people often acted out their traumas and ‘baggage’ at work, with their underlying fears and needs driving their desire for control, dominance and suppression of others. In one way, it was about ‘pushing’ other people down so they could ‘pull‘ themselves up. I longed to see environments that recognised and respected authenticity, intuition and the recognition of people’s unique skills and abilities – in a balanced and appropriate way with logic, reasoning and productivity requirements. I wanted to see more vibrant work environments that energised people and created expansion and joy that benefited both the organisation and their customers, as well as employees.

Over the years, I attended numerous workshops, conferences and retreats in the field of human consciousness, transformation, facilitation, leadership, strategy, workforce capability development, coaching and mentoring, healing and spirituality (as differentiated from religion).

During one 9 year period, I managed my team through 7 restructures and realignments. At one level, it seemed to me that little had actually changed – despite the constantly shifting structures, jargon, requirements, measurements and priorities. I began to realise that often the most important change needed to start ‘within’ – that most people needed to learn to move out of their misery of co-dependence and move into the freedom of interdependence – and that organisational systems needed to shift from co-dependent systems to interdependent systems. Often easier said than done.

It therefore wasn’t surprising that after I left the corporate world, I changed my focus and started to intensively study personal change, transformation, healing, consciousness and growth.

I became aware that my unhappiness at this time was the result of suppressing the more intuitive and knowing parts of myself. I realised that I had taken on traditional values for how I should live my life and what I should do. I had lived a life of conventional work and had ignored many of the insights and innate skills that I have.

I decided to do whatever it took to find my own joy, integrity, inner-peace and sense of fun. It was quite a journey for me to get there. It needed the support of wise and truthful friends, teachers and healers who often shone a light on my way forward. I needed to learn to think differently, make new choices, do things differently and to dream again. I was encouraged to develop my gifts of intuition and inspiration. Much of what I achieved was through study and the intensive training that I undertook in energy healing, both within Australia and overseas.

My training in energy healing, transformation, integrity and interdependence has primarily been with Dr Catherine Wilkins, teacher and founder of Fractology (https://fractology.info). I studied the Fractology Practitioner Training full time over 9 years and had many practice clients during that time, before becoming an endorsed Fractology Practitioner. I’m now studying the Fractology Master Training.

I also trained with shamanic healer Anahata Ananda in Sedona, Arizona, (https://shamangelichealing.com) – Wendy Forbes in the Blue Mountains who taught me aura balance (http://www.humanifest.com/about.html) – and Dr Stephen Phillips (Eastern Medicine) who taught me tai chi and qigong (https://www.easternmedicine.com.au). Each one of these teachers inspired me, sharing their unique wisdom, knowledge and experience about healing, transformation and vibrant well-being.

However, my first teacher was Dr Matra Robertson in Sydney, who for many years taught me spiritual healing and meditation. She left a profound mark on my life, helping me become sufficiently awake and aware so that I could then go on to further studies and training in these fields. Another profound healer in my life was psychotherapist Dr Tom Downey, from whom I learnt so much about my truth, suffering and how to find joy in my life.

I started meditating over 30 years ago. It helped me centre, become present and find peace in my life. Many teachers have guided me in a variety of meditation practices, including mindfulness meditation, loving-kindness meditation, breath-awareness meditation, walking meditation, silent meditation, journeying meditation, guided meditation, heart-based mantra meditation and shamanic meditation. I’ve been a meditation teacher for 19 years.

I’ve always had a very strong commitment to learning, growth and expansion. I’m intrigued by life, particularly the more invisible, unspoken and intuitive aspects. I’ve always loved moments of unexpected insight and inspiration, the ‘aha’ moments in life. And I love learning and co-creating with others. I’m now delighted to be pursuing a career in personal growth, well-being, healing and transformation.