Coaching experience
I’ve been using coaching methodologies for 15 years. I first learned this way of working when I was a lecturer in Performance and Live Art at the RMIT School of Art. It wasn’t my job to tell students what performances to make; instead it was to ask them good questions to help them get clear on what they wanted to do, and to reflect back to them things that were hard for them to see in their own work.
After that I was a community organiser for eight years, coaching people to start and run local advocacy groups strategically and sustainably.
The scenic route
Like many ADHDers I have taken the ✨✨scenic route ✨✨to my current location. This breadth of experience makes me fairly unflappable and non-judgemental.
I drove delivery vans for ten years and have also been a grocer’s lad, casual A/V tech, sound artist, theatrical sound designer and the campaign manager for a climate advocacy NGO.
I’ve been overemployed, underemployed and unemployed; hitchhiked up and down the east coast; loved and lost; been monogamous and otherwise, celibate and hypersexual and whatever the state in the middle is called.
I’ve tried many things, succeeded at some and failed at more.
I will not judge you.
Why dragonflies tho?
I like dragonflies as a metaphor for our mode of attention: flitting from place to place at great speed, then hovering intently when something deserves our attention.
I feel so viscerally that the world misunderstands what kind of animal we are. They try to train us like bees or ants, orderly and regimented, when we’re more like dragonflies, mercurial hunters.
Fun
For fun I go indoor bouldering, play tabletop roleplaying games, cook a lot of Sichuan food, draw comics and buy too many op shop clothes.