My professional experience includes:

• ongoing research in creativity
• foundation of the School of Creatology
• creation of the Creatology Curriculum ‘SHiNE’
• foundation of a creative primary school
• foundation of its not-for-profit company
• foundation of creative preschool and home-school programs
• co-creation of a specialist primary school
• photographic biz, portraiture of children with disabilities
• 15 years education and educational consultancy for the blind and vision impaired

My dream goal is:

to design and create physical Creatopia Villages

(arts-eco style)

where people from school groups to organisations

can experience, learn about, and expand their

creative natures and power.

A little about me as a self-doubting young adult. 

I daydreamed, a lot!

I was told that I am, “airy-fairy, unrealistic, idealistic, naive, inexperienced, too esoteric, wear rose-coloured glasses, and

live in the clouds of la-la land”.

I love Lala Land.

The last time someone said to me, “You know what your problem is? You’re a dreamer. I’m a realist” was in 2008. I was 39.

I had not stood up for myself until this day. I was a very socially-anxious wall-flower.

Anyway, I told him I believed realists are ignorant.

I’m not sure I meant that exactly, but I needed a quick way of saying that maybe some realists ignored an aspect of life that holds a great deal of value.

Rather than feeling the shame that I think these comments were designed to create,

I was proud to be these things!

We need more dreamers in the world. Just ask John Lennon.

As a child, my daydreaming time was musically-inspired contemplative time, Zen time, zone-out time, ‘not-thinking-about-someone-else’s-thinking-other-than-my-own-thinking’ time.

It was space to imagine and temporarily return to the 12thD world that felt much more like home…

of village, of tribe, of music around the fire pit, hand-built houses and hand-made jewellery, dancing, playing games, forest pathways, no money, wilderness around us, and a love that seemed to transcend our society’s expression of it.

As a teen, lots of rebellion was going on within me.

I was suffocating with unexpressed argument, self-consciousness, and self-doubt, and was always socially shying away.

I wanted to change society for the better… that was all I could think about.

Not understanding myself and my place, I searched in book shops for the book that would give me answers to my questions (when bookstores were sacred zones back in the 80’s and 90’s)…

who am I, why do I feel like I don’t belong, how can I avoid coming back to Earth, what use am I, why are there issues like poverty and extinctions, why don’t people create something better?

Rows of religious texts, art books, and self-help books never had that one book I was looking for.

During my late 30’s, I decided to re-write my life and leaped into a Masters of Social Change.

Being an action-research Masters, I chose to pursue my question about the role creativity plays in ‘creating a better world’.

And 50,000 words later, I’m writing the book I was looking for. 

It’s all about creativity, what it is, how it works, what it does, why it does it, how it does it through us,

and most importantly, it shows without a shadow of a doubt, the creativity itself… our creativity… has every single element needed to ‘create a better world’.

Creativity itself is the pathway of something better. 

I’ve transformed my book into a curriculum

because we don’t increase our creativity by reading about it!