Marianne Jago-Bassingthwaighte is a researcher and story-teller on humanitarian aid, with a focus on empowerment, gender equality and sustainability. Her work is increasingly focussed on mentoring and personal development, and she is particularly interested in facilitated transformation processes (transpersonal coaching, shamanic visioning, gender reconciliation). Marianne is a lawyer by training, and formerly worked as an Australian Government aid worker, including in Myanmar and Chile. She was a resident of San Francisco Zen Centre (2008 - 2009) where she undertook extended zen practice periods. Marianne moonlights as a refugee activist, singer/songwriter, & aspiring memoirist (mariannejago@yahoo.com.au)