About Circle Wise
Circle Wise is a service providing an independent facilitator for meetings and workshops, to assist groups and organisations wishing to move forward.
Circle Wise also offers process design and advice services for community engagement and consultation.
Kate Lawrence, Circle Wise facilitator and community enagagement specialist, uses her experience and skills, focussing on inclusion, empowerment and purpose. Circle Wise brings the values of equal participation, a sense of belonging and consensus building, and working though conflict, in a structured and inclusive way.
Circle Wise also offers process design and advice services for community engagement and consultation.
Kate Lawrence, Circle Wise facilitator and community enagagement specialist, uses her experience and skills, focussing on inclusion, empowerment and purpose. Circle Wise brings the values of equal participation, a sense of belonging and consensus building, and working though conflict, in a structured and inclusive way.
About Kate Lawrence, Principal Facilitator at Circle Wise
Kate Lawrence spent over 15 years as a community lawyer, being privileged to interview and hear the stories of people from all walks of life.
She has worked with communities, as an employee of small community organisations, a large government bureaucracy and with threee local Councils. She has played and coached women’s Australian rules football for many years and volunteered with a range of other community groups.
Kate has a perceptive, intuitive and logical mind. She has a keen sense of justice for all. She is engaging, warm and inclusive. She always strives to work for the good of the group, not just those who have engaged her. She has an abiding faith in people and their ability and desire to work with others, to be part of something bigger than themselves.
Kate has been trained in facilitation by the CFA and has for the last four summers facilitated groups of neighbours to discuss and prepare for bushfires.
She has also facilitated community groups in her role as Community Infrastructure Coordinator for Macedon Ranges Shire Council where she worked until August 2009. More recently she has been working with communities recovering from the 2009 bushfires.
Kate has worked for Macedon Ranges Shire Council as an independant facilitator, facilitating multi agency workshops on heatwave planning, a shared council transport project and the Health and Community Care Interagency network.
Kate has been involved in the Victorian Facilitators Network, is a member of the Australian Facilitators network and the International Association of Facilitators.
Kate has studied facilitation methods and theory and completed several training sessions on facilitation. She is currently undertaking an Advanced Diploma of Facilitation.
She has worked with communities, as an employee of small community organisations, a large government bureaucracy and with threee local Councils. She has played and coached women’s Australian rules football for many years and volunteered with a range of other community groups.
Kate has a perceptive, intuitive and logical mind. She has a keen sense of justice for all. She is engaging, warm and inclusive. She always strives to work for the good of the group, not just those who have engaged her. She has an abiding faith in people and their ability and desire to work with others, to be part of something bigger than themselves.
Kate has been trained in facilitation by the CFA and has for the last four summers facilitated groups of neighbours to discuss and prepare for bushfires.
She has also facilitated community groups in her role as Community Infrastructure Coordinator for Macedon Ranges Shire Council where she worked until August 2009. More recently she has been working with communities recovering from the 2009 bushfires.
Kate has worked for Macedon Ranges Shire Council as an independant facilitator, facilitating multi agency workshops on heatwave planning, a shared council transport project and the Health and Community Care Interagency network.
Kate has been involved in the Victorian Facilitators Network, is a member of the Australian Facilitators network and the International Association of Facilitators.
Kate has studied facilitation methods and theory and completed several training sessions on facilitation. She is currently undertaking an Advanced Diploma of Facilitation.
