Workshops +
community development
I am highly experienced facilitator and community development practitioner with skills in building fun, safe (enough) polyvagal informed relational containers and the facilitation of embodied, engaging, playful, creative, experiential content driven workshops.
Collaborative achievements
Walter Mangold Trust Recipient 2007 - Peace Education work with street living youth, PUE, Mexico with NGO 'Rectification Mundial' in partnership with Instituto Poblano de la Juventud de Puebla and Foundation JUCONI Inc (2008).
Development and delivery of successful local interfaith cultural programs in partnership with Darebin Council, Yarra Trams + Local business owners - Chalice Uniting Church 2010
Development and delivery of innovative 'Bring your Bills Day' events in partnership with Footscray Legal Service, Energy providers and Ombudsmen Services to address widespread debt related issues in migrant and refugee populations - Lentara UnitingCare - Sunshine Mission 2011
Development coordination of youth development leadership committees - Yarra City Council 2014
Committee Member - Australian Living Peace Museum 2014
Development, coordination + facilitation of LGBTIQ+ Peer Mentoring Groups, Bellingen + Nambucca LGA's - 2015 - present with support from community based group 'Bent in Bellingen' and partnerships with Genhealth, Headspace.
Developed, authored and delivered school based Digital Leadership program addressing a range of online issues 2015-16 in partnership with NSW Health.
Rainbow Fair 2017 - community based response to increased tension due to the same sex Marriage Plebiscite
Coordinated first ever LGBTIQ+ Youth camp on NSW Mid North Coast - 2017, in partnership with community based steering committee + Aurora Group.
LGBTIQ+ Youth Forum, in partnership with community steering committee + Aurora Group.
Development, coordination, facilitation of participatory trauma informed yoga program for at risk regional young people in partnership with Dorrigo Youth Centre Committee, Dorrigo High School + St Vincent De Paul - 2018
Lead Lovebites Facilitator 2016 - present
Save a Mate AOD Harm Minimisation Facilitator 2019 - present.
Coordinated, facilitated and produced youth podcasting skills program and podcast "The Local Queer" in partnership with Grow the Music- 2022 - PHN funded.
Palestine Action “Gather for Gaza”, “Where Olive Trees Weep”, Film Screening, “The Last Sky” Film Screening.
Siddle Family Foundation Recipient- Employed and supervised first ever LGBT+ Focused Peer mentor on the Mid North Coast to deliver programming in partnership with Bellingen High School and Nambucca High School.,
Community Development Practice
My community development practice is built on the belief that all collaborative work at it’s heart is relational, and in service of emancipation from coercive and oppressive power structures focused on individualistic social norms that inhibit our relating to one another.
I place importance and integrity on group dynamics/group process, consciousness-raising and participation and modelling the values of empowerment, intersectional feminism, social justice, self determination and acting collectively.
I am learning how to embody a de-colonial, anti racist, anti oppressive practice. I thank my friends and colleagues who are First Nations and People of Culture for these ongoing lessons.
As a white bodied person I believe our inequitable system’s focus on individualism and materialism is the source of much despair, mental illness, violence and isolation in our communities.
