Jill is a trained clinical counsellor who has worked with individuals, couples and groups. Early in her career, she discovered her passion for facilitating groups to help them live vibrantly and she has focused her energy on this mission for the past 26 years.

Jill first participated in the Mastery workshop in 1996. The experience was so powerful for her that she immediately began assisting the program and subsequently trained to lead the workshop under Larry Gilman. She also became an enthusiastic member of the Vancouver Mastery community. Jill began leading the Mastery herself in 2003, creating new communities in Calgary, Edmonton and Kitchener/Waterloo. Over the years she has supported thousands of participants to fully express themselves in over one hundred Mastery workshops nationally. Jill also co-leads the Mastery Leadership workshop in Western Canada.
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Beyond her leadership of the Mastery workshops, Jill has worked extensively in corporate team building and leadership training with the consulting firm ViRTUS. Here she has brought her love of personal and professional development to a wider audience by working with groups of entrepreneurs and companies such as Telus, BC Hydro and Cactus Club. Her work emphasizes self-responsibility, personal and professional boundaries, resolving conflict, unleashing creativity, and bringing soul to one’s life and work.

Jill is the mother of two teenagers and is married to an intense Greek man whom she met through the Mastery. Along her own healing journey she has developed a strong spiritual foundation. Her meditative practice aligns with her passion for personal health and the well-being of the planet. She devotes a good portion of her spare time to the David Suzuki Foundation’s Butterflyway Project, the Farmer’s Footprint (regenerative agriculture) and sharing the work of parenting genius Dr. Gordon Neufeld.

“The Mastery is where I see people move the furthest the fastest - in just a weekend - after which they have a community of willing participants to play big with which helps them keep the spark alive."