About Me - My Biography

Helping people become their best selves is my abiding interest, my passion and the foundation of a lifelong commitment to teaching and learning. Pursuing a career in education was an obvious choice. That career began at a time when education was characterised by creativity, choice, equity and opportunity.

After completing an undergraduate degree, I worked in diverse community and school settings including as a liaison person and advocate for women migrants and people with disabilities.  As a young mum in a country town, I became director of the community preschool and began postgraduate studies. This led to an academic career as a teacher educator, a PhD and a commitment to studying, practicing and teaching mindfulness and meditation. 

In 2012 I was invited to be scholar-in-residence at the Garrison Institute, New York. A life changing experience. I realised the toll that the dramatic shift in the culture of education towards standardisation and competitive individualism was taking and I wanted out. My well established daily meditation practice helped me find the clarity and courage needed to abandon a very secure longterm career that was no longer serving me well.

In 2013 I founded Mindful Works as a vehicle for combining my skills and knowledge as an educator, my passion for helping people become their best selves and what I had learned first hand about the benefits of mindfulness practice. I began with teaching Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) courses and have since designed and delivered a range of short courses and retreats in various locations in Australia and overseas.

Since launching Mindful Works more than 1000 people have benefited from the opportunity to learn and practice mindfulness and discover how it can help them become their own best friend, the best they can be. This work inspires and energises me. It is what I’m good at.