I was born to parents who grew up in wartime London and survived.
My father’s first love was acting with the Renegades Theatre and reciting Shakespeare; my mother cut a fine figure with a gypsy knife and circus past.
My childhood was drawn amongst the wild-scape of the Norfolk Broads, in an idyllic rural village, not unlike Narnia. But then life interrupted, and I found myself swimming the world’s oceans aboard a handsome ship, before being dumped into the hot, empty city of 1960’s Sydney…Think Mad Men without the irony.
I morphed into a young woman as my friends formed a garage band and became INXS, their strange beats thumping on hot terrace tiles, under our feet. I yearned for visitings from Mr Bowie, Roxy Music and Blondie – (all came true) and asked God if I could please have hair like Jerry Hall.
I observed the boardroom tips and media smiles of Margaux Hemingway as my father passed us innocently through the underworld of Sydney’s poets and dead men.
And then back to London where I draped myself in fur and velvet, for Jewish fashionistas and purveyors of silk.
I burnt an Italian heart, in trade for an English lesson and a few puffs of something illicit.
Backward and forwards I went England, Europe, Australia, England, Europe, Australia.
I watched Siouxsie & The Banshees, the Sex Pistols and Adam Ant at the Marquee and walked to Marble Arch in the snow, in my sandals – I never listen.
Ultimately, a corporate gypsy for too many years with a shoebox of burning revelations and aesthetics under the bed. Too many loves, too many lovers, too much of everything. Grief and sorrow.
Then a new bloom appeared on the stem of my life. A drumbeat called, the beginnings of a new story, maybe too late, maybe not? There it was, cracked between London’s mysteries and the sodden green jewels of the English countryside – the power I had known all along – the power of story, and the recognition of wisdom.
And now as I enter my third act, the ‘crone age’ 🙂 I nod to myself…I am, and always have been, a seeker, a lightworker, a storyteller and a woman on a Heroine’s Journey.
And at last I’m free to release my light and help others do the same.
Professional Bio
Professional Highlights…
- Creator of The Age of Aquarius Oracle Cards
- Author of Wisdom is the New Black and The London Letters
- Fellow of The RSA (Royal Society of the Arts) London
- Member of Dream Tending Discussion Group : Stephen Aizenstat PhD
- Member of the International Association of Journal Writing
- Member private group ‘The Manifesto Code’ – Jonathan Fields (Good Life Project)
- Creator of The Art of Journaling Program – through the lens of Anais Nin’s Diaries
- Speaker & Facilitator ‘Storytelling for Female Entrepreneurs’ London
- Speaker ‘The Story Party’ – Browns Covent Garden, London
- Founder of The New Heroines – Sister Circle, UK
- Editor Women Unlimited Worldwide portal for female entrepreneurs
- Co-organiser THRIVE – Women Unlimited at BAFTA 194
- Facilitator Storytelling Workshop for Parents – Evelina Children’s Heart Organisation
- Alumni Storynomics Program with Robert McKee
- Member of StoryU – World’s Leading Community for Business Storytelling
- Business Mentor SFEDI UK
- Senior Facilitator ‘The HR Forum’ (Oriana Cruise Networking)
- Lead Career Change Program Manager London – EMI Records take over by Citigroup
- Regional Director Asia Pacific IMCA (International Management Centres) in association with Oxford Brookes University
- Council member and marketing advisor to TAFE Qld Further Education – Brisbane Australia
- Convenor of the Millennium Project – with futurist Sohail Inayatullah – University of Hawaii
- State Manager Samsung – Speaker at Parliament House – Celebrating Technology
- Award for Highest Number of Textbook Adoptions (University Humanities Stream) for Pearson Penguin Publishing
- Winner of Butterworths Prize – BA (Justice Studies & Communications) QUT
Continuing Education
- A Jung Perspective on Tarot – Ken James 2023
- Jung Platform Summit – Engage the Shadow 2022
- Completion of ‘Symbols of Transformation’ Certificate: The Centre for Applied Jungian Studies
- Completion of ‘Shadow Work Practitioner’ Certificate
- Jung Archademy : Completion of Archetypes of Personality Course
- The Psycho-Spiritual Dilemma Of Our Time : Jung Platform Lecture by James Hollis
- Eros & Psyche : Jung Platform Lecture by Dennis P. Slattery
- God Image as part of the Innate Psyche & Archetypal Potential : Jung Birthday Lecture 2022 by Lionel Corbett
- 3 Day Retreat – Women Centered Coaching – Feminine Power – Claire Zammit PhD
- Global Women Conference London : Keynote by Ervin Laszlo Integral Theorist & Founder Club of Budapest