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At Life School we believe that learning should be engaging, enjoyable and relevant.
Our facilitators have worked as part of an experienced team to create these workshops
for you. You’ll see from the 
overview that the workshops cover a diverse
range of areas designed to provide highly interactive learning.
The workshop team have a broad range of experience in training, facilitation
and education. As a team they provide an energised, playful, dynamic and action learning
environment and are looking forward to working with you.
Kim’s background in adult learning is based on an extensive background in people and organisational
development within the Australian federal government, and as a consultant and adult learning facilitator
for many Australian organisations. He has complemented that
with his work with as a professional coach over the past ten years, and he is amongst the most experienced
of Australia’s professional coaches, having commenced coaching in 1997. Kim is well recognised
by many of his peers within the WA coaching community as “the coach’s-coach”,
having founded the local chapter of the International Coach Federation and WA's premier coach training
organisation, Coach School.
Kim brings to all his work, a strong personal belief and emphasis on individual personal development, with a focus on personal awareness and responsibility. He also has a strong interest in supporting people to improve their skills in dialogue and conversation (implying emotional intelligence) since nothing happens in families, organisations, communities or nations except through conversation. He is committed to facilitating processes which are deeply intentional, clear and well structured, and which enable those he works with to ‘own’ the learning agenda and to draw on their own inner wisdom. He enjoys adding value as a facilitator through a unique blend of intelligent caring support, challenge and accountability, metaphor and imagery, playfulness and humour, and the sharing of personal insights and anecdotes.
Kim’s qualifications include a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Sociology, from the Australian National University, study towards a Masters in Leadership & Management degree at Curtin University’s Graduate School of Business and he is first of only two professional coaches in WA to have achieved the status of Professional Certified Coach (PCC) status with the International Coach Federation.
Pauline is the co-ordinator of Life School and is involved in coaching and facilitation.
She brings a strong background of learning and development in the financial sector. Her
diverse education background enabled her to provide customised training solutions for a
broad range of corporate clients. Prior to working in the finance sector she had over 10
years teaching and training experience in Australia and overseas, including with young
offenders, secondary students and adults. She has been able to incorporate the transferable
skills of providing individualised and customised learning experiences into the TWS business.
Pauline is very interested in facilitated learning and the way this process encourages focus, stimulation and engagement for participants in training programs. She incorporates coaching as an approach to her facilitated learning repertoire.
Pauline has completed an 18 month Diploma of Professional Coaching from Coach School and has been working as a professional coach since 2005. She also has Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Education and Master of Education qualifications. She is a member of the International Coach Federation working towards her ACC credential.
Brendan has been a professional facilitator, educator and consultant in personal, community
and organisational change for thirty years, working with individuals and groups of
people in corporate, government and community sectors both in Australia and overseas.
From an early career background in education, Brendan has always been interested in exploring the boundaries of his profession. He was among the first secondary school teachers in the UK to develop initiatives in vocational education which led him to Australia in the early eighties to pioneer innovative programs for students and teachers in the area of alternative post-compulsory high-school education.
Born and raised in Northern Ireland, it has been no surprise to Brendan that he has specialised in models and processes of change that seek to acknowledge and include the presence of passion and conflict. He has learned, through experimentation, study and self-reflection, to embody nonviolence and creativity within the processes he designs. Brendan particularly enjoys, working with diversity and difference in the workplace and sees conflict as a wonderful opportunity for healthy growth in people and organisations.
Brendan has been a key figure in the introduction to Western Australia of Open Space Technology, a cutting-edge process for engaging people and systems in self-organising to deal with their significant issues. He is among the most experienced practitioners of this methodology in the region and regularly provides training for facilitators around Australia.
Through this engagement Brendan has been privileged to work with people who are innovative risk-takers and inspirational leaders with a deep commitment to the principles of inclusivity and collaboration.
Brendan thoroughly enjoys his work and confesses to gaining as much personally from each project as he provides his clients given that he sees himself as a co-learner in the journey of understanding people and systems.
During 2006, Brendan has worked in 'open space' with:
Brendan's qualifications include a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Economics, a Postgraduate Diploma and a Masters degree in Education. He is a member of the Australasian Facilitator's Network, the Open Space Institute of Australia and the International Training Network for Open Space Technology.
Jo joins Life School as one of the facilitators and program designers. She brings a
career of more than 20 years in Human Resources, specialising in personal and professional
career development, coaching, mentoring, facilitation and change management. Jo has extensive
experience, working in both private and public sectors, facilitating groups and working
on a one to one basis. She understands the benefit of focusing on the uniqueness of the
individual and believes in the power of continuous learning, and personal development.
These factors underpin her facilitation approach.
Jo has a Bachelor of Arts, Graduate Diploma of Education; Post Graduate Diploma of
Human Resource Management/Development and is currently studying her Diploma of Professional
Coaching with
Coach School. She is also a certified NLP practitioner and is accredited
in the following tools: Myers Briggs Type Indicator; Appreciative Inquiry; Richard Barrett’s
Corporate Transformation Tools; and 360° feedback processes.
Jo is committed to ongoing development and is a professional member of the Australian Association of Career Counsellors and is the Professional Development Director of the International Coaches Federation Australasia (WA Chapter).
Ken Maley has come to professional coaching via a twenty-five year career in the media. As a photographer with the West Australian newspaper, Ken learned the art of effective communication through daily interaction with people from all facets of society in every imaginable circumstance. He estimates that he has enabled well over 20,000 people to relax in front of the camera!
Jo Marshall has a background in management and education. She is passionate about facilitating a work place or a “school place” that is challenging and satisfying - a place where people can make meaningful contribution and also grow and develop - considering that we spend a large proportion of our lives in these spaces.| PO Box 484, Bentley, WA, 6982 | Tel 0431 486 062 | Email: pauline@lifeschool.com.au |