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.

As a politician, she has worked in some of the most challenging environments where validation is often a rare commodity.  Maybe because of this, she is known as a great facilitator within the Greens and community and other groups she is associated with, being able to help people hear across sometimes huge difference as she models the great art of listening to understand.

 This breadth of experience has already deepened the Groupwork thinking and perspective on the times we are living in and how we best respond to them. 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.