Heather Blakey has had over thirty years experience as a secondary school teacher in Melbourne’s Northern suburbs and she graduated as a Master of Social Work at Monash University in 2018.
Between 2000 and 2010 she built and managed the critically acclaimed Soul Food Cafe , a site which was given high praise by Writers Digest and authors such as Sark and Jean Houston. While she no longer runs this labyrinthine website, Soul Food informs how she works and has influenced writing courses that she regularly runs.
Heather describes herself as a purveyor of stimuli and an artistic midwife. She has worked as a specialist teacher of writing with people of all ages and believes that the expressive arts, and writing in particular, not only promotes wellness in those who trust the process and engage but helps people identify and value their unique voice.
When she managed the Soul Food Cafe Heather led people on adventures through a portal into the Cave of the Enchantress and Lemuria. Lemuria was a cyber retreat where travellers wandered, joined a gipsy camp, sat around telling stories and called in at places such as the House of the Serpents and the Lemurian Hermitage.
Travellers used Riversleigh Manor as a base but went off trekking with donkeys into more remote regions such as the Camp of the Amazonians, White Owl Island, The Isle of Ancestors, Rainbow Beach, The House of Baba Yaga, The Lemurian Hermitage and the Lemurian City of Ladies. Much of the journey was celebrated in her annual Advent Calendars, links to which can be found at the site she created While Waiting For Godot to reveal a fresh direction.
Heather stopped running Soul Food in 2010 after yet another death all but extinguished her creative flame. However, she has never stopped working as a purveyor of creative stimuli.
Specialist Teacher of Writing 