On the road travelled, after teaching in primary and secondary schools, I worked in school-based and district-based advisory and leadership capacities relating to shifts in educational theory, policy and practice, and did consultancy work in this area. I have taught, written coursework and/or conducted research for several universities, and from mid-2004 spent two years as full-time Lecturer in New Learning at RMIT University in Melbourne. My Ph.D. thesis, titled 'Investing in Intelligence: An Inquiry into Educational Paradigm Change', was completed at Deakin University in 2005.

I am interested in people, and in the ways we create the world we live in, and the ways we don't. I am interested in how we've learned to think about and feel about things in particular ways. Even though it is sometimes difficult, it is exciting and rewarding to explore different ways of thinking about who we are and how we live, different ways of being in relationship with other people, and different ways of seeing, accepting and changing the world we live in, here and now. There is so much inspiration to be found for living a richer life, personally and collectively, and I have become interested in making such Inspiring Stuff more widely available.

I am married to Clinical Psychologist, Dr Pamela Seaton. We have two gorgeous dogs, Buffy (right of picture) and Magic. I enjoy music, driving in the countryside with Pamela, and communing with nature. Whenever I can, I love working on our piece of land in the mountains of far northern New South Wales. We have a few horses, a few head of cattle and a few sheep.