Julia is a

• Mother and wife,

• Artist

• Footy trainer, team manager, spectator

• Surf lifesaver, facilitator and age manager

• First aid facilitator,

• Chakradance & Chakradance Kids facilitator,

• Tuning into Kids facilitator,

• Holistic emotional well-being councilor including Holistic Integrative Creative Art Therapy

• Crystal Energy Healing practitioner

• Tarot Reader

• Mental Health First Aider

• Barista (coffee lover)

• Student (loves learning and currently studying Master Practitioner in Holistic Art Therapy)

• and holds a Cert IV in Youth Work and Cert IV in Training and Assessment

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My story

Creativity is my passion. Art was always my favourite subject at school right through to A-level.

Unfortunately once I started working it took a back seat as I followed my father’s footsteps into

the corporate world. Although my career touched on creativity during my marketing days it was

very briefly in the fore front.

 

My husband and four kids then became my priorities and fill me with love.

 

A passion for surf lifesaving and first aid training followed. Although I occasionally found time to find

creative outlets (usually in the form of activities with the kids), life kept getting in the way. My skills in

administration followed me from the corporate world to the volunteer environment taking up much of my

spare time. With ‘burn out’ inevitable, 2019 was the year to put down the admin pencil and pick up the paint brush. With my family still my priority, Art and Crafts would become my second focus for the year and I began to create, picking up some old and new skills.

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Mum, also keen to follow her love of art (but never knowing where to start), joined me in a weekly oil painting class with Pat McKenzie. Thanks Mum and Pat for helping me back on the path of creativity.

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I have been on a number of committees/boards which have given me a keen insight to business operations. My corporate experience covers a range of skills from administration (including policies and procedures) to human resources to sales & marketing.  I have over a decade of experience in training and assessment within surf lifesaving including first aid, 14 years of experience in volunteering with children age 5-17 through surf lifesaving, in particular as an age manager for nipper programs, and through training. I have over 10 years of volunteering in my children’s’ school as a parent helper in a range of roles including in the classroom, on excursions, in the office, on school council and on the parents & friends committee.

 

I am passionate about alternative modalities including but not limited to crystal healing, energy healing, tarot reading, and astrology. I have tangible experience in offering these modalities to friends, family and like minded people for over 20 years. My passion around first aid extends beyond the physical to mental health leading me to combine my empathy for others and my creative side to embark on a diploma of Holistic Integrated Creative Art Therapy. Throughout much of this experience my creative outlets were pushed to the background and although I continued to dabble in the arts, they were not my full time focus. It is time for my passion and creativity to come to the forefront and shine.

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