Current Roles…

Co-Founder & Facilitator at Common Roots
Associate Facilitator & Trainer at The Groupwork Centre
Educator & Project Manager of Advanced Groupwork Facilitation Program (online)
Gestalt Psychotherapist

Qualifications…
Adv. Clinical Training in Gestalt Counceling at GTA
Adv. Dip. Group Facilitation at Groupwork Centre
Certified Teacher of Open Floor Movement Practice
Level 2 Global Rites of Passage Leadership Training with Rites of Passage Institute
B.Eng (Civil)(Hons.) at University of Tasmania
Master of Business Administration at University of Tasmania

I am an energetic, down-to-earth and adaptive group facilitator, educator, movement teacher and gestalt psychotherapist. I use various tools to support individuals and groups to connect, up-skill, be empowered an heal. Embracing our wholeness and working with what is alive in the present moment is at the core of my approach.

With diverse cultural roots, moving and engaging with all types of people has always felt like my home base. I stumbled across my fascination of working with groups, and our human potential, leading poverty awareness campaigns whilst studying engineering and business at university. I was blown away by the collective wisdom and personal growth cultivated together and how deeply changed I was by these experiences. My career path has since enabled me to study and work across Australia, Africa, Europe, and the US.

My interest in group facilitation led me to study at The Groupwork Centre, in 2013. Since completing this course I have worked as an Associate Facilitator, Trainer and Coach delivering training and facilitation services for various clients across Australia and overseas.

Whilst journeying through life, my dance practice has been my greatest spiritual practice and home base. Dance is a place I remember and forget. The space I can let go, connect to my body, and feel my most resilient self.

I have studied conscious dance across the world and became a certified teacher of the Open Floor Movement Practice in 2016 - an enlivening mindful movement and dance inquiry. I see Open Floor as a catalytic tool to nourish and develop ourselves and our communities. I enjoy regularly teaching classes and workshops in Melbourne and Tasmania. From an engineer to a dance teacher... who would have thought.

My studies continued as I wanted to deepen my therapeutic work, leading me to study to become a Gestalt psychotherapist at Gestalt psychotherapy at Gestalt Therapy Australia. An four year experiential deep dive into theory and our own ways of relating. You can find my about my therapy work here.

If you’d like to get to know me a bit better, here’s a few podcasts i’ve recently been on:

Henry Fowkes: Validation, Co-Regulation and Midwifing the Magic in Groups

Dance As A Path To Healing with Jake Potter & Henry Fowkes

Henry Fowkes | Why we should get groups moving