40 Years in the Making
My business is built on 40 years of working with people, in all kinds of settings, and the challenges that bring them to the table. Youth worker. Teacher. Counsellor. Funeral Director, Ive worked with not for profits and in the government sector, 13 years as a union organiser with the CPSU and ASU. And throughout it all, I’ve been an active volunteer in many capacities too.
Different roles, different rooms, but the same work underneath. Every one of them taught me to look beneath the surface. To read what is really going on between people, and inside them. That skill, honed over four decades, is what I bring to the mentoring I do now.
In 2022 I completed the Master of Leadership Mentoring program with the Wellness Breakthrough Academy. It is here that my experienced blossomed into the understanding, that we can’t hope to help others without first being willing to help ourselves. That training gave me much of the language and tools I use today: a way of moving people from head to heart to body where the truth already lives. It gave me a way to describe what I had been learning to do for 40 years.
How It Started
Like so many of us, I once hid my self-doubt inside a carefully constructed world of being in control. The Black Summer bushfires stripped that back, laying bare how scared, anxious, and alone I really felt underneath.
Five years of mentoring, training, and support later, I have come out the other side stronger, wiser, and more at peace than I have ever been.
That experience matters to the work I do now for two reasons. First, because I know what it is like to have the floor disappear beneath you, and to have to rebuild. Second, because doing that work on myself taught me what a good mentor does, and what it takes to be one.
The people I work with come for all kinds of reasons. Grief. Addiction. Burnout. A toxic workplace. A relationship that isn't working. A career that has run out of meaning. Whatever brings them, the work is the same: looking honestly at what is getting in the way, and finding the courage to move through it.
Values and Vision Trust. Respect. Empowerment.
I work with the matrix of Trust, Respect and Empowerment.
Trust and respect are the cornerstones of empowerment. Learning to trust ourselves is essential to building respect for ourselves and others.
My vision is to create a supportive environment where I give my clients the opportunity to trust in me as their mentor as they learn to trust themselves. Being able to trust allows us to build respect for all that we are, and all that we can be.
With trust and respect, we empower ourselves and others to break free from the limiting beliefs that bind us. Trust, respect, and empowerment are the ground this work stands on.
Break Free from Old Patterns
Are you trapped in the same old patterns and looking for a way to break free?
At Mistymatta Mentoring, we believe every moment in life has something to teach us and a richer more fulfilling life is achievable.
Mistymatta Mentoring offers the insight and support you need to identify and overcome the subconscious thoughts and beliefs that are holding you back.
You can make a Choice, you can take a Chance and you can Change