CURRENT MISSION

To continue to slow down and find a balance between contributing and enjoying myself

ABOUT ME

I am a singer song writer who makes my living helping others to find their voices. I run The Muse Community Music Trust who aims to break down barriers to participation in music making (www.themuse.org.nz). I live and work with my husband, Gary Easterbrook. (www.sing.co.nz) I am a mother of three grown ups who sometimes live with us too. We have chickens and cats. I run the choir A Capellago. www.choir.co.nz

PHILOSOPHY

Listen, connect,

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have just joined. I have been a wwoof host for several years.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

No experience yet.

Interests

green activism, Re-evaluation co counselling, alternatives to capitalism, music, especially world music, gardening, nature, pottery, playing games that make me laugh, cooking, preserving and baking. Reading great fiction.

• cats
• chickens
• writing
• singing
• cooking
• baking
• running
• gardening
• reading
• traveling
• pottery
• music
• world music
• engineering
• volunteering
• wwoof

Music, Movies, and Books

Some authors I love are Isabelle Allende, Alexander McCall Smith, Diana Wynne Jones and heaps of others I can't think of right now.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I ran a pretty amazing volunteer project after our recent earthquakes that helped people gain good listening skills so that we could knock on 2000 doors in a hard hit low socio economic area, and then coordinate to get information to people in a local trust who could respond to the immediate needs of people we spoke to.

Teach, Learn, Share

I am probably not that keen to teach people staying with me, as it is my full time job. When I travel I would be happy to share my knowledge of singing, music theory, cooking, preserving, co-counselling, sound engineering, building a community music centre, organic gardening and compost making. I would like to learn more about pottery.