Our Sanctuary mindset is multi-sensory, immersive, creative, educational, conservation-minded, respectful of First Nations Country & culture & nourishing to both mind & body.

Our Team & Associates

We have track records of professional leadership spanning Tourism, Business, Education, Cultural Policy and Heritage Conservation, Regenerative Agriculture, Creative Practice, Product Design & Manufacturing, Environmental Conservation, Circular Economy and Advocacy. Furthermore, as locals, we share combined lifetimes of volunteering and community service in this region.We fully grasp the social, environmental and economic challenges of rural and remote East Gippsland.

Jo Moulton, Convenor, Creative & Strategic Designer,Web Publisher,Cultural Tourism Advisor/Studio JOMO

Jenny Toye, Artist and Educator

Jenny Robertson, Regenerative Farmer, Victorian Landcare Board Member (retired)

Tim Gibson, Regional Historian, Member of East Gippsland Historical Society, Archivist & Horticulturalist

Claire-lise Gamble, Remote East Gippsland Tourism Entrepreneur (Ontos) and Community Leader.

We work closely and with the guidance of our associates:-

Michael Trudgeon, Professor of Architecture & Design, RMIT University; Director of Crowd Productions Design Studio

Dr Daniel Hromek, Spatial Designer and Yuin (Saltwater) Woman; Director of Djinjama, she publishes on how to place Country in the centre of co-design with First Nations communities.

References:

1. Djinjama Cultural Design & Research by Dr Daniel Hromek https://djinjama.com/

2. The Value of Co-design by Professor Michael Trudgeon https://www.sanctuaryeastgippsland.com/post/co-design-for-wicked-problems

We do Advocacy, Co-design, Strategy & Publishing

Our Purpose

We are a non-profit advocacy group that promotes community recovery and prosperity through ECO-CULTURAL-TOURISM. We bring community together into a creative, strategic and sensitive workshop approach where 'lived experience' and specialist experts (including Traditional cultural custodians) share knowledge. In this context we co-design places, spaces & ‘experiences’ to showcase heritage, environment, culture and community identity while securing our rich biodiversity. Our approach drives innovation in a world that is shifting from extraction to regeneration, from competition to cross-cultural, cross-sector, cross-disciplinary collaboration.