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Blake Hudson
Landscape Designer + Permaculture Consultant
Ph: 0448 938 270
blake@organicmotion.com.au
Blake also has a background in multimedia design and produces high quality graphics and 3d renderings for our Custom Designs & Manuals. Combining his multimedia skills and the understanding of living systems, he has balanced the art and science of permaculture to illustrate quality landscape designs to his clients, which are ultimately installed through his landscaping services or through facilitating workshops.
Blake teaches multimedia skills as well as hands on workshops for permaculture gardening including natural building using earth bag. He is also our resident ‘Rocket Stove’ creator.
As one of the teachers for our annual PDC, Blake will be sharing his knowledge to effectively take a landscape vision convert it into a plan which are to scale and geographically referenced. Blake will share some useful technology skills for practical design illustrations as well as paper to pen for your group design project. He will be offering a toolkit of hints and tips to get you started in designing stunning landscape designs.
When he’s not creating functional and organic permaculture gardens for the tropical climate, he can be found exploring and delving into the patterns of nature to present the geometry and imagery in his visual projection mapping projects with Culture Mechanics.
Tonielle Christensen
Educator + Permaculture Consultant + Life Coach
Ph: 0422 068 995
tonielle@organicmotion.com.au
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Tonielle is an author and a holistic life design coach to support people to connect, nourish and grow themselves and projects through transpersonal practices to achieve their goals. Her specialised service moves people beyond their vision for self-sufficiency into the daily actions to bring about the lifestyle behaviours and quality of life they seek.
Although she engages in the creative concept design sessions with her team, she focuses more on the report writing, education and research. As the driver of the ‘educate’ aspect of Organic Motion (OM), she is a qualified trainer and assessor and co-ordinates events for various workshops and courses, facilitated by the OM team or hosted associates.
In the past, she has facilitated regional recycling projects, consulted for conservation groups, co-ordinated protest events for Coal seam gas awareness and assisted a company to establish carbon trading units to improve soil carbon through sustainable farming practices.
She has studied her PDC with Darren Doherty from Regen Ag, Permaculture Landscaping and Consultation with Geoff Lawton and Nick Huggins, Dynamic Governance and Decision Making with Robin Clayfield, Permaculture Teacher Training with Robyn Francis and Sociocracy with the Gina Price.
As an advocate for ‘Sociocracy’ (governance) designed social systems, Tonielle shares this in her work with community facilitation, using this effective framework for decision making and dynamic governance to assist groups and businesses to function for success.
In her spare time, you will find her in a garden hanging with her favorite plants and being a kitchen witch, preparing fresh recipes and making medicinal concoctions. From growing up in the bush and beach, sailing on the ocean and backpacking internationally, she is a now a forest dweller with an affinity for living close to nature.
Jay Jackson
Project Manager + Permaculture Consultant
Ph: 0408 555 368
jay@organicmotion.com.au
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Jay Jackson is always ready to face challenges and find solutions. A born leader at heart, Jay spent his younger years rebelling against the system he was born to change. Coming from a tradie background he knew there was more to life and always looked for the next level. That’s when he found permaculture and later co-founded Organic Motion. Finding fulfillment in any landscape, Jay now happily and confidently handles life as one big (ever-changing) design. He lives to share joy in life!
As our project manager, Jay ensures that our landscape designs meet clients visions, obtain on ground outcomes and handles the puzzle work of timelines, budgets, suppliers, managing workers and meeting deadlines. His gregarious nature and great communication is what our clients and students affectionately remember. His ability to achieve the ‘big picture’ and finesse the details whilst considering all the stakeholders along the way makes Jay an integral part of Organic Motion.
In the past, Jay has worked in various industries which all add to the mixing pot of his skills and abilities. Jay has been influential on the committee for different community groups, ran dozens of public workshops and travelled 6 countries to gain experience and see examples of permaculture landscapes. Jay has established community gardens in Townsville and Cairns which he currently coordinates at the James Cook University Cairns campus. Jay has all the relevant permaculture certificates and participated in many other professional development courses. Jay’s experience as project officer in natural resource management lead him into a deeper understanding of conservation and land management, which he also blends into his design and consultancy work. Always open to a good conversation, Jay will ensure you feel safe and supported to get the most from your landscape and what Organic Motion can offer.
Affiliate consultants
Bruno Martin
Landscape Architect
In 2010, Bruno decided to travel to, and around Australia to continue his research.
Australia was the birthplace of Permaculture, and also represented a very unique, interesting country, with a vast diversity of landscapes and flora and fauna. He worked on a variety of Permaculture designed farms for a year, including a 4 week stint in Tasmania, on the property of none other than Bill Mollison, the co-founder of Permaculture.
Bruno chose to settle in Far North Queensland due to its vast beauty and diversity, where he met the Organic Motion team. They decided to collaborate and work together to combine their passion, knowledge and skills of Permacultue and Landscape Architecture. He completed Organic Motion’s in-depth and comprehensive Permaculture Design Course in 2017. Organic Motion produce effective, high yielding Permaculture Gardens while Bruno’s creative input further ensures a harmonious, aesthetically pleasing design. His passion is above all to participate in bridging and connecting people with their environment.
Rupert Faust
Environmental Engineer
As founder of Grounded Permaculture Action Party (Inc.) and Beanstalk Records, Rupert’s enthusiasm for growing music and food is highly contagious and his dedication to social change is second to none. Aside from all his music endeavours, Rupert graduated from UQ in 2009 with a Bachelor of Environmental Engineering and spent a number of years in the water and wastewater industry. Working for both the public and private sector on multi-million dollar projects he gained a breadth of experience in the planning, design, operation and construction of urban infrastructure. A high level conceptual holistic systems thinker, he quickly got bored developing patch work solutions for a dysfunctional system within the current paradigm, and his interest in plants, growing food, living off-grid and taking responsibility for his own existence inevitably led him down the path of permaculture.
In 2014 he moved back to his family property where he grew up to build the studio for Beanstalk Records and began researching ways to regenerate the 30 acre site whilst aligning with his families context. During 2015, Rupert dove deep into the world of permaculture. On sabbatical, he spent much time on different farms, and completed many courses including his Permaculture Design Course, with Geoff Lawton at the Permaculture Research Institute (PRI). This time gave him a profound insight into how to build a bridge between the alternative world of permaculture and the well established corporate world of urban infrastructure planning… he subsequently founded the Grounded concept. A self-confessed jack of all trades and master of his curiosity, he is as good with his hands as he is with his head. A specialist in high level conceptual planning, systems thinking and making things happen, Rupert is on the Organic Motion team as a project manager and engineer to facilitate efficient and effective planning, design and construction of your next project.
Marenn Sagar
Urban Designer + Life Coach
Marenn grew up surrounded by a strong community and stunning natural environment in the rural Sapphire Coast of rural Far South Coast of NSW. After a year travelling around Australia Marenn moved to Cairns in 2012 for University to complete a Bachelor of Sustainability at James Cook University (JCU). Marenn’s degree lead him to travel and study abroad in Scotland and western Europe on a Global Environmental Sustainability Program Scholarship. After completing his degree in Cairns Marenn travelled through Southern Asia experiencing a whole new range of sustainability challenges and solutions, which lead him to complete a Permaculture Design Course in NSW with Elemental Permaculture (2015) and Permaculture in Development with Rosemary Morrow (2017).
Marenn completed a Masters in Tropical Urban & Regional Planning at JCU and is professionally recognised by the Planning Institute of Australian. Marenn completed research which investigated agricultural diversification and change as a means to support economic and community development. This project responded to the Hinchinbrook Shire Council’s strategic planning framework, and worked with Agricultural Industry bodies, regional natural resource management groups and most importantly farmers to identify barriers and opportunities for large-scale agricultural transition.
Marenn has worked as Environmental Managers Assistant with the JCU Sustainability Department for the last 2 years, gaining experience in operationalizing and building a culture of sustainability in the tertiary sector. Whilst at JCU Marenn has been involved projects such as the United Nations Urban Thinkers Conference in Cairns which sought to identify how urban design and infrastructure can support healthy, active and socially inclusive communities. Marenn was employed to collate the data in preparation for presentation to Cairns Regional Council, Townsville City Council and finalization in a UTC Report to the UN. Now Marenn is working on a new major research project about urban design and green-blue infrastructure which will help inform the role out of future collaborative ecosystem-based infrastructure projects in Cairns.
Marenn’s role with Organic Motion seeks to synthesize his honed sustainability, planning and urban design skillset with the principles and vision of Permaculture design. Key objectives are to understand the requirements of pubic space developments and develop linkages and partnerships with local government and development sector. This new avenue for permaculture development projects seeks to leverage and value add to public greenspaces around Australia, providing stronger social and environmental benefits to local communities.
About us
Organic Motion was established in 2011 in response to the growing global awareness of the connection between physical and environmental issues. We strive to meet the increasing demands of conscious lifestyle choices in regards to developing sustainable personal, commercial and planetary health and well-belng practices. The founding team - Tonielle Christensen, Blake Hudson and Jay Jackson, represent over 20 years of collective experience, implementing ecological design principles that engage and empower people in self, community and land care, strengthening our ability to support enriched lifestyles into the future. Together we have designed and installed hundreds of edible gardens, taught thousands of people skills for sustainability and provided services throughout Australia and across the globe.
Our Vision
A global community culture of sustainable, organic practices that inspire, engage and integrate earth and people care for optimum health and well being now and into the future, across every aspect of personal and commercial endeavors.
Our Mission
To design and create nourishing landscapes that are functional and beautiful in support of sustainable healthy and productive lifestyles.
Organic Motion was established in 2011 in response to a desire to provide organic and localised food production. Realising the impact that this has not only for our health and well-being, but also this incredible earth that supports us and all of life.
Together as a team we nurture this enterprise for the love of engaging with inspiring like-minded people who value a nature connected lifestyle, and want to leave a legacy for future generations. Throughout the years, we have designed and installed hundreds of edible gardens, taught thousands of people skills for sustainability and have provided services throughout Australia and overseas.
Our Vision
Home grown edible gardens & sustainable landscape design that inspires and engages a culture honouring the earth ensuring that the next seven generations thrive.
Our Mission
To design and grow food producing landscapes and share skills for sustainability that support the health and wellbeing of life on the earth.
