4change with Margi Brown Ash

Margi’s professional life includes being a:

• Registered Counsellor MACA: 4change Studio: 4change coaching
• Taos Associate, Taos Institute, USA
• Performer (Gold Matilda Award Best Actor 2007; Acting Commendation, Adelaide Fringe, 2009)
• Director (Mouthful of Pins, Brisbane Powerhouse; Too Much Individuality, QUT; Gone to Earth, QUT; Chapel Perilous: Too Much Individuality, QUT;  Bubbles; Bubbles the Dreamer; Bubbles goes Punk; Arts Council Touring, W.A; Boundaries, Swy Theatre Company, Gallery, Fremantle; Spare Parts Theatre Company, Fremantle;)
• Devisor (co-writer/co-devisor The Knowings of Mary Poppins, published 2008; writer and co-devisor of Home with Leah Mercer; writer and devisor Boundaries, W.A; Writer and devisor Bubbles; Bubbles the Dreamer; Bubbles goes Punk, Arts Council, W.A.; Writer and devisor, Giant, Theatre of the Deaf, The Stables, Sydney; Co-writer and co-devisor The Bus Show, Murray River Performing Group, Albury, N.S.W.)
• Lecturer, Educator: has taught tertiary education for over ten years including

1. Master of Counselling, Psychology and Counselling School QUT: area of interest The Self as Therapist, Creative Supervision and Group Studies;
2. Performance Studies, Creative Industries, QUT: area of interest acting training and contemporary performance making.
3. Margi has taught in acting institutions and schools for over 35 years in Australia, as well as in London and New York. She has conducted private classes in acting training and more recently  ImpulseTraining at 4change, Metro Arts and Pullenvale, Brisbane  for over ten years.
4. Presently she facilitates workshops aimed at developing resilience and understanding of self using the arts. She also supervises experiential professional development workshops designed specifically for artists, educators and professionals in the  arts and social sciences throughout Queensland.

Margi is a committed supporter of the growing independent theatre industry in Brisbane. She works with a wide variety of artists helping them develop resilience and sustainable practice.  She also  consistently works with Leah Mercer in the nest (4 change) where they create innovative and socially relevant work.

Margi is a registered member of Australian Counselling Association, ACA; a member (34 years)  of M.E.A.A (Actors Equity).  She is a member the Australian Society for Performing Arts Health Care and The Australasian Association for Theatre Drama and Performance Studies (ADSA).  Margi is a Taos Associate. The Taos Institute is "a community of scholars and practitioners concerned with the social processes essential for the construction of reason, knowledge, and human value" (taosinstitute.net)