I have been living and working in Bibra Lake for 20+ years. Teacher, parent (these days also a carer for my own parents who live nearby), novice gardener - previously spent some time as an academic at Murdoch teaching community development, and before that a musician and teacher of the Alexander Technique. I've a long interest in how we might live together in generative and supportive ways and it was this curiosity about how we may 'do it better', that led to my time as an academic interested in participatory practice and various approaches to ‘community development'.
More recently I have arrived at Nora Bateson’s work as a model subtle and complex enough to begin to make some sense of life’s experience and to provide a way of developing that understanding alongside others. I trained with Nora at the first host training in Australia in 2019 and revisited those ideas (and some new ones) with her again in Adelaide in 2025. I have seen how Warm Data Labs provide ‘a way in’ to new understandings of ourselves in the company of others, an experience that supports the promise(s) of dialogue that I believe is inherent in sustainable ideas of community and democratic practice.