Founder and Senior Facilitator/Mentor

Kate is the founder of The Black Cockatoo space. She used to run and own the wellness and yoga studio, Connect the dots until covid – 19 hit when she decided to take her face to face program, online. Since then she has worked to lay the foundations for a new space of wellness. Creating and facilitating the 12 week and 12 month program to support people in transformation through the subtle, slow and sacred container’s. She is now mentoring others to do the same, whilst developing other courses to support organisations to introduce models of reciprocity and wellness.

She is a mother, wife, Gestalt and family constellations psychotherapist, yoga and meditation teacher and budding Herbalist in training. She has held women’s and mixed ceremonies, retreats and workshops for the past 10 years and believes in the power of ritual, ceremony & relational humanness held in a sacred container. Kate believes we are forever changing and growing when our hearts are open and feet anchored deeply in the Earth.

Kate’s farm in Mullumbimby is set on 114 acres and aims to provide an face to face educational and reciprocity model in action. With her vision of the Black cockatoos slowly dwindling, she hopes to plant more trees and contribute partial profits of these courses toward conservation.

Course Connector

Lucy is a yoga teacher and chanting facilitator with a special interest in Bhakti yoga and sound healing.

She is passionate about sharing the powerful practices of mantra & sound, and creating experiences for people to reconnect with and remember who they are.

Creative expert

Jessi is the multi-dimensional creator behind Bloompress–a creative destination returning clients to their own magic & power. She is an author, photographer & Evolutionary Astrologer, supporting truthful expression & reflecting back experiences of soul. She has a truly embodied & connected way of co-creating brands, heartfelt moments & of teaching & sharing that needs to be experienced in order to be fully understood.

Through her soul-led creations, her weaving of everyday life & her creative client work, Jessi holds space for true transformation to unfold. Deeply rooted in her strong yin feminine energy, she works with the natural cycles of life. Jessi shares her cosmic & embodied knowledge most notably through her Creative Embodiment Space: The Inner Temple, which holds teachings which support a return to internal power, embodiment & integration.

Senior Facilitator/Mentor

Born and raised in Sydney of largely Celtic heritage, I now live on Gumbaynggiir lands on the NSW mid north coast. I have always felt a strong affinity with the land, the stars, animals, stillness and Spirit. Meditation led me to yoga asana in the mid-1990s. Along with ritual and deep listening, these are integral to my daily life. I love crystals and walking in nature; singing and sharing the healing vibrations of sound. I am a proud mum, a sacred space holder, bodyworker, yoga and meditation teacher who works with subtle energy to support others to become more of themselves.

I hold a Bachelor of Science (Adv, Hons), Diploma of Remedial Massage and am a Reiki Master. For about 20 years I worked in palliative care research, strategy and service development. Supporting people to live the life of their choosing as they approach the end of their life is very close to my heart. In more recent years, I’ve completed Meditation Facilitator training, nearly 500 hours of Yoga teacher training and two courses with Kate - Sacred Circle Facilitation and the year-long Shamanic Bodywork program. I am in the final stages of studying Celebrancy. I feel deeply grateful to have teachers who have chosen the path of personal commitment to authenticity, humility and integrity. Thank you for leading the way.

Senior Facilitator/Mentor

Zoë is a Gestalt psychotherapist specialising in supporting women through the varied transitions of female life, especially motherhood. Her previous years as a pregnancy, labour and post-natal massage practitioner and doula provide her with the professional and personal skills that complement her therapeutic approach.

Zoe is fascinated by group work and the healing power that can be experienced and witnessed in such configurations. She desires to help individuals connect deeply to themselves, others and the world they inhabit, with a passion for their lives that will sustain the interconnectedness of humanity.

Guest Speaker

Nidala is a musician, custodianship educator and Indigenous knowledge keeper. Born of the Djugun and Jabirr-Jabirr people of the West Kimberley she utilises the gifts of her ancestry to help her others remember their place within the world, fostering deepest belonging and an acceptance of shared responsibility to for the work that needs to be done.

Facilitator

My name is Amy and I am currently living, working and studying on Bidjigal Land.

I am a mother, a musician, a deep thinker and an explorer.

My time is spent nourishing and nurturing my children and holding space for others to practice yoga, come together in circle and rest deeply.

I am studying social work at UNSW and hope that this will lead to further skills in group work.

Bringing community together lights me up and I love creating spaces that can form and build relationship - with self, others and the environment.

Facilitator

My passion is to elevate and guide you to better health and wellbeing through creative movement, breathe work, connective tissue and lymphatic release & rehydration using a number of unique modalities and pulling them altogether so you can experience a journey of letting go and then experiencing a coming home to your heart centre.

Vera is a body worker with over 25 years of experience she has trained in Pilates, Connective Tissue Release and Lymphatic Drainage, Reiki, and is currently studying Ayurvedic Health.

Facilitator

Sigrid is a Sacred Circle Facilitator, Womb Healer and Hawaiian Bodyworker.

She has been holding space for 1:1 healing for several years and loves the nurturing, restoration and inner peace that energy healing and intuitive massage can bring. In her group circles Sigrid works deeply with the elements, the seasons, Mother Gaia and the somatic body. Her intention as a space holder is to provide a safe, nurturing space for each participant’s authentic truth to immerge. Healing within a group is very powerful and through Blessingways, Rites of Passage Ceremonies and Women’s Circles she has witnessed the beauty of connection, clarity and deeper heart connections occur. Her prayer is to guide herself, clients and fellow travellers back into the heart and deep listening and communion with the Mother Earth.

Facilitator

Heart-centred, earth-centred, deep, slow, soulful - and just a little cheeky. Jess's spaceholding flows out from her own journey with embodiment, returning always to gentleness, connection & self-trust at the heart of it all.

How can we pave the way to a paradigm of heart-centred leadership? Jess wishes to softly support others into remembrance of their own unique gifts, vibrant expression and self-guidance. To restore trust in our own inner knowing, and our ability to hold others even in our sacred differences. To return us to the intelligence of the heart, the wisdom of our bodies & the cycles of nature. And above all, to support us to feel deeply at home, safe and thriving in our own body and being.

Jess is a facilitator of deep rest, ceremony, and embodied yoga practices, weaving the guidance of astrology, plant medicine, subtle energetics and emotional integration. In all her offerings, as in all of life, she sees embodiment as the key foundation to aligning with wholeness, connection and integrity with ourselves.