So… who am I?
An experience junkie and a play advocate, I’ve lived my life absorbing all I could about the wonders of the human experience. With a family background in the arts (my grandfather wrote Australia’s first radio jingle), I learned early the power of imagination and creativity.
With 25 years of experience as an actor, experience designer, and producer, my love for live storytelling has been combined with an endless fascination with helping people discover their own incredible abilities. For me, nothing is more exciting than watching the inhale of breath as someone experiences joy, wonder, or amazement during something I’ve crafted.
Couple these creative goals with the process of experiential learning and design, and I now design, create and support projects that truly embed transformation in an engaging and meaningful way. My journey through a Masters of Design Futures provided a vehicle to research play within organisational culture and provide insights into this field. Humans are glorious. And I’m fortunate enough to have cultivated a career where I get to celebrate them every day.
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How I work
To make an experience memorable, it must be relevant to you. To ensure you get the best experience I work through these five steps:
1. Connect
We meet. We chat. We learn how each other works. Connection before content
2. Concoct
I add your needs to my pot of skills, and consult you on my approach
3. Create
I boil up a service that meets your team where they are at
4. Confir
We share this approach together and add any final spice
5. Commit
We serve it up on a transformation menu!
Experiential Learning Cycle
The Kolb Experiential Learning cycle is a holistic learning process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience. A four step process encompassing experiencing, reflecting, thinking and acting, and encompassing 9 different learning styles, research has shown that the learning cycle creates:
Greater memory retention
Better decision making
Stronger teams
Maximised focus and awareness
Flexibility and resilience
Methods
Play Theory
Play is a primal response built into the biology of all mammals. It is one of seven primary emotional systems pre-wired in the human brain. It is our natural innovator and enhances our learning potential, increases empathy, helps problem solving and speeds up productivity. It is a powerful learning tool.
Spolin
Viola Spolin is considered ‘the grandmother of improvisation’. She developed theatre training using games to organically teach the formal rules of theatre and since then, her teaching has branched out into varying fields as an organic teaching process.
Design
Design thinking is a human-centered problem solving process that is iterative and non-linear in its approach. Designed to help understand the needs of the people you’re creating for, Design Thinking puts the user at the heart of every step of the design process to ensure that any design is relevant and helpful to those its designed for.
