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Meet Jessamie

Jessamie (she/her) is an activist, engineer, researcher and artist with 10 years of experience working in sustainability across residential development, political engagement, building design, landscape design and environmental advocacy.

Jess cultivates caring and commitment amongst people, drawing upon systems-thinking frameworks from old wisdom, indigenous wisdom and contemporary knowledge to help create a culture within groups, communities and their environment that goes beyond the current paradigm of ‘do less harm’. Through her consultancy, she likes to cultivate ideas which disrupt contemporary values and order, finding creative ways to help people connect to and care for their local places.

Born in Australia of Anglo Italian ancestry, she resides on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people in Naarm/Melbourne.

Starting out as a civil engineer, Jessamie was always just as curious about why structures were made as she was about how they were made. This kind of curiosity led her to a journey through work and training in the fields of Architecture, Permaculture, Ecology, Environmental Advocacy, Campaign Leadership, Regenerative Development and, most recently, Complex Systems Thinking.

Her work is driven by the conviction that the state of nature and humans are intrinsically linked and interdependent, both able to co-evolve and regenerate the other, and that all developments can achieve this, because they have before. She aspires for holistic outcomes that are able to transform cultural, environmental and economic wellbeing simultaneously.

Jessamie sees experience as essential to inspiring change. Through facilitation she cultivates caring and commitment amongst people, supporting them to reimagine their project and role with new potential. Her strength comes from an ability to combine technical knowledge with a deep curiosity of ecological systems and human behaviour, sharing and communicating this with warmth and candour.

Training related to design & engineering:

  • Civil Engineering (Swinburne, 2015)

  • Sustainable design mentorship – Paul Haar Architecture (2015-2018)

  • Permaculture design certificate (Ceres, 2016)

  • Women in Environmental Leadership Australia program (The Green Institute, 2018)

  • Energy Efficient Sustainable Building Design (RMIT, 2018)

  • Unlearning for change agents (Charles Eisenstein, 2019)

  • Regenerative Design (Regenesis Institute, 2020)

  • The Systems View of Life (Fritjof Capra, 2021)

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