Kirrilee is a post-menopausal woman entering into her mage years, mother to five children, professional craft artist and emerging mental health educator.
With a background in Steiner early childhood education and teacher training, Kirrilee has held a long-term evolving artistic practise initially based in anthroposphical principles and more recently archetypal imagery. Together with Yia Alias, Kirrilee facilitated 'Crafting a SacRed Yoni' workshops, a favourite at Seven Sisters Festival and also held at HearthGround as well as the first Wise Women Gathering.
Kirrilee has been navigating the terrain of trauma and complex mental health outside of the system since her own trauma memories emerged with the onset of perimenopause nine years ago. She is completing post-graduate psychology studies and is the founder of the Ritual Abuse Survivors' Association, an initiative borne of lived experience that provides education and advocacy for survivors of ritual abuse, organised extreme abuse and who live in plurality. In her emerging professional path, Kirrilee advises clinicians on issues around working with survivors of ritual abuse, and has written a resource on suicidality in this group. Her capacity to articulate the unique and little-understood experience of ritual abuse survivors has been recognised and shared internationally.