For parents
Wonder who you're becoming.
You're at the age when everyone has an opinion about your future — what to study, what to become, who to be — and underneath all that advice, your own questions are quieter and much bigger. What am I actually good at? What do I care about? Who am I, apart from what's expected? Wonder Together is unhurried time with someone who won't rush you to an answer — a mentor to think out loud with, make things with, and take your questions as seriously as you do.
A mentor for the questions that matter.
Most guidance rushes you toward a plan. This is the opposite. We meet regularly, over time, and follow your real questions wherever they lead — sometimes in conversation, sometimes by making something together, walking, playing, or building a project that actually means something to you.
I'm not here to fix you or hand you a five-year plan. I'm here to wonder alongside you, with real curiosity and no agenda, so your own clarity and your own direction have room to surface. That's slower than advice. It also lasts a lot longer.
Not answers handed down — room for yours to surface, and someone steady alongside while they do.
The questions worth taking time over.
Talent & vocation
What you're genuinely good at, and what you might have to give the world.
Identity
Who you are underneath the roles, labels and expectations you've been handed.
Relationships & belonging
Connection, family, friendship, and how to be honestly yourself with others.
Meaning & philosophy
The big ones — purpose, values, and what any of it is actually for.
Health & wellbeing
Body, mind and energy — and how to actually feel okay in your own life.
Handling pressure
Exams, expectations, comparison, the noise — and how to carry it more lightly.
How we explore them is up to the day — talking, music, scent, sound, a walk on the land, a game, or a project we build together. Wonder is the way in; the medium just follows what helps.
A safe, steady adult to think with.
The years from fourteen to twenty-five hold some of life's biggest questions. Wonder Together gives a young person unhurried time with a grounded, experienced adult who listens without agenda — mentoring, not therapy. A companion to their growing up, not a fix for something wrong.
Regular one-to-one mentoring — presence, real conversation, and projects that follow what matters to them.
I don't diagnose or treat. I mentor and guide. If something needs a counsellor or doctor, I'll say so and help you find it.
Their trust is real. The only exceptions are safety — risk of harm, or anything a child-safety duty requires — and I'll be open with you about those.
For under-18s, sessions happen with your knowledge and agreement, in the open, nothing kept secret from family. You're always welcome nearby.
I hold current Queensland teacher registration and a Working with Children (Blue) Card, and work to Queensland's Child Safe Standards.
Give what feels right and what you can. Cost should never be the reason a young person misses out.
What I bring
Wonder Together is mentoring and educational companionship. It is not counselling, therapy, or medical care.
A few doors to start wondering.
Explore your strengths
A guided tool to start naming what you're good at and what you're drawn toward.
Try it A gameDranzhin
A contemplative card game — play as a quiet way back into presence and curiosity.
Play My workEducational design
My work designing learning experiences for communities and retreat centres.
See the work
However you arrived here
Whether the questions are yours, or your young person's — there's room here.
No goals to bring, nothing to prepare. Just a wish to slow down and wonder. Reach out, and we'll find a time.
Wonder with me