Director & Associate

Virginia is a Co-Director and lead facilitator with Groupwork. She brings a depth of experience in organisational development, global learning and a passion for sustainability.

Associate & Governance Group Representive

Steve is a Co-Director and associate with Groupwork. He brings his compassion, keen insight and analysis skills to support, embolden and empower others through his facilitation and training.

Associate

Andrea Jones an associate with Groupwork brings her skills in leadership, communication and education and is passionate about facilitating and encouraging the sharing of wisdom by individuals and groups. Her work draws upon over 35 years’ experience working within the education, health, disability, local/state government, social change and corporate sectors.

Associate

Henry is an experienced group facilitator and educator with a background in youth facilitation, project management, engineering. Henry is also a Gestalt psychoterapist and movement teacher and brings these unique skills to his work with groups.

Nancy is a passionate and skilled facilitator with a deep commitment to harnessing the power of groups to drive meaningful change. She believes in the transformative power of collaboration, helping individuals and teams work across differences to find creative, inclusive solutions that equalize power and open up new possibilities.

Associate

Jim is a freelance writer, editor and faciiltator, specialising in collaborative decision making around big and tricky decisions, conflict resolution and strategic planning.

Associate, Practice Lead & Governance Group Representative

Sarah’s approach to working with groups is lively, engaging and participatory. A key strength is helping people work together openly and productively for the best outcome.

Associate, Network Weaver, Secretary of Governance Group & Strategic Projects

Tanya is passionate about conversation and facing our fears. People everywhere need the capacity to do both. Using her experiences as an actor, performer, journalist, community campaign leader, coach and educator, she works one-on-one or with groups.

Associate

For more than 20 years, Jonathan Bedloe has worked with communities, businesses and groups in the areas of suicide prevention, men’s health and wellbeing, and community development.

Associate

A former Greens senator, Janet Rice has been connected with Groupwork since the very early years being a part of the first year-long course that Groupwork ran in 2001. It changed her life. Since becoming a Groupwork Associate in 2024 Janet has felt she has come home, working with people and an organisation so committed to working from the heart to create a better fairer world. 

Associate

Janoel is passionate about helping people learn how to connect better and works with any group keen to learn.  Every organisation needs enthusiasts and Janoel’s lens on life rarely strays from that place.  We are rapt Janoel is back in facilitator role!

Associate

Kate is a theatre-maker specialising in creating collaboratively devised performances. At Groupwork she found a team of exceptional facilitators leading with love and care and who, like her, believed in the power of collaboration and the possibility of creating meaningful change in the world through group processes.

Research and development Lead

She is a community ally for the first nations people in her area, the Gunditjmara, in awe of their achievements to reclaim and share Indigenous Ecological Knowledge through the UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Landscape Declaration: Budj Bim. Her wide range of professional experience, including community development and nature conservation and her involvement in tertiary education and the arts brings a dimension to Groupwork that is timely.  Carolyn’s ability to dig that little bit deeper into the organisation’s theoretical underpinnings and help us all ‘wonder’ a little more, has been inspiring and eye opening.

Associate

At the time, running the Future Makers Fellowship at the Centre for Sustainability Leadership, Groupwork supported the deepening and solidifying of his facilitation craft to provide fellows with deep and transformative experiences. That year he began to understand that facilitation is a political act and that connection and authenticity might be the most important facilitation skills of them all. Matt’s calmness and clarity is an amazing thing to behold. He can often see a way through during complex facilitation moments that he shares with an ease so helpful to whatever group he is working with. We are so glad to have Matt join the team!