Caitlin is a qualified social worker and community development practitioner, and co-founder of MakeShift, a creative and social prescribing agency. Caitlin is the co-author, along with MakeShift Co-Founder Lizzie Rose of Creative First Aid: The Science + Joy of Creativity for Mental Health, published in February 2024 by Murdoch Books in Australia, UK and USA. She has over fifteen years experience working in complex direct service settings and community development and leadership roles. She is a Mental Health First Aid Instructor and has facilitated accredited training for over 2000 people across Australia. Caitlin is also a senior Trainer/Educator with Full Stop Australia, a violence prevention organisation, and has delivered training on Psychological Safety, Vicarious Trauma Management, Burnout Prevention and more to leaders and managers in corporate settings, Australian Defence, Police NSW, Communities and Justice, and many more. Caitlin worked with Support Act, the peak charity that supports the Music Industry, in 2022 to co-design, write, evaluate and deliver Access All Areas Training for the Music Industry - a workshop designed to skill people in appropriate responses to bullying, harassment and cultural discrimination in the workplace. The development of this training was in response to multiple surveys and sector-wide disclosures of a prevalence of sexual assault, transphobic and homophobic attitudes, racial discrimination and workplace bullying. She has trained Senior Management and Leadership teams across the music industry and training touches on spheres of influence and privilege, intersectionality, trauma-informed workplaces, and the 5 D’s Response framework. Caitlin has extensive experience in public speaking, presentations, training design, facilitation and education, collaborative partnership methodology, community engagement and social change work. She has worked in and alongside the arts sector in Australia for over twenty years.