With diverse cultural roots, engaging with all kinds of people has always felt like home to me.

Facilitation became my first professional love 15 years ago when I stumbled upon it, running some of Australia’s biggest poverty awareness campaigns and fundraising programs. At the time, I was studying civil engineering and business, but once I experienced the magic that can happen in groups, I never looked back.

I continued this path when I moved to Melbourne, facilitating youth programmes and completing Groupwork Centre’s Advanced Group Facilitation programme. This deepened my understanding of group dynamics and solidified my holistic, relational approach. I feel like the craft of facilitation is ant the heart of everything I do.

Over the past decade, I’ve worked as an Associate with Groupwork Centre, delivering training and facilitating workshops across Australia and internationally.

When asked how I could develop as a facilitator, a mentor encouraged me to “get out of your head and into your body.” This advice led me to conscious dance, where I found a deep connection to movement as a place of insight and healing. This was, surprisingly to me, the most significant practice of my maturing, personally and professionally.

I studied overseas to become an Open Floor Movement teacher, including some incredible times studying at Esalen Institute, and have spent the last decade teaching regularly in Melbourne and Tasmania, and occasionally interstate and overseas. This practice has not only fostered community but also deepened my exploration of movement as a tool for self-inquiry and transformation.

My passion for transformative work and personal experience in therapy inspired me to pursue a four-year study of Gestalt psychotherapy. I was attracted to Gestalt's experiential, embodied, creative approach, which is non-pathologising. Gestalt principles are also deeply rooted in the origins of Open Floor.

My studies and experiences in rites of passage in our modern context have also been very influential, encouraging me to create The Movement Rites—a movement-based rites of passage series—and seasonal offerings like Dance Refuge and the Harvest New Year Retreat. These are community-led places of ritual and support.

Whether I’m working with individuals or groups, my approach is grounded in a deep belief in our innate capacity and compassion to connect and relate. I work with what emerges in the present moment. I’m often described as warm, authentic, and relatable, and I bring these qualities into everything I do.

A current major threshold in my life has been becoming a parent in late 2024. These days, I’m immersed in the immediacy of life through spending time with my family, walking in nature, tending to the garden, and dancing whenever possible.