GLOBAL CITIZEN, STORY TELLER & GRIEF REVOLUTIONIST
Kaye Cleave began her career as a school teacher in Australia, and then in England, and has taught a variety of subjects in diverse settings—acrobatic skills at a circus school, mindfulness at a Buddhist Monastery, and poetry in a maximum security prison. She has an MFA from the University of San Francisco, a PhD from the University of Adelaide, and was a research scholar at UC Berkeley. For twenty years she ran her own consultancy, offering emotional resilience seminars to managers and staff in private and government organisations. Her book on Emotional Intelligence—Once More With Feeling—has sold in countries around the world; her chapbook of poems—Cartwheels of Love and Loss—was the alternate winner in the Minerva Rising Press Dare to Speak contest; her memoir—My Beautiful, Reckless Girl—was a finalist in the Panther Creek Book Award; her children's picture book—A Kangaroo Tale—helped raise funds to build a school in a remote Nepalese village in memory of her daughter. Kaye is currently on the Advisory Board for Impact Schools in Nepal and co-leads Grief & Healing Retreats at Laguna Writers in San Francisco. Her award-winning documentary—Catherine’s Kindergarten—has screened at film festivals world-wide and she is now working on a second film—Ageing Disgracefully—which challenges the way we think about growing old.
