Born in Sheffield and growing up on the edge of the city, Kat developed an interest in the natural environment at a very early age, and particularly in water wetlands and was in constant trouble for returning home from play soaking wet and covered in mud.
In the early 1980’s Kathryn moved, with her family, to the Southwest of Australia and built on this early curiosity and love by studying environmental sciences and aquatic ecology at Murdoch University. After ten years as a government employed environmental scientist she discovered another passion. Finding great purpose and pleasure in working with communities to support their action learning and collaborative decision making, Kathryn has dedicated 20 years of her life to learning and refining the skills to support deliberative dialogue and non-extractive community engagement.
Alongside the development of her career and professional life Kathryn maintained a curiosity and commitment to inner work. Having explored several contemporary religions in her teen years as well as more esoteric and ‘new age’ philosophies she now describes herself as a contemplative.