
Beck Ronkson
Beck is a Facilitator, Coach, and Systems Change practitioner with a background in Arts-based practice. From her home on Awabakal and Worimi land (Newcastle NSW) she consults to large systems-wide organisations and smaller regional initiatives and groups to build capacity within individuals and systems, with a particular focus on skills and structures to support Collaboration and Community Leadership.
Beck is a dynamic collaborator with skills forged in the fires of communities where she has extensive experience with community engagement and particularly in navigating collaboration and conflict. She has worked in the Social Change sector for the past two decades, was Director of Milk Crate Theatre, working with people with a lived experience of homelessness and complex mental health, ran group programs for Mission Australia, St Vincent De Paul, Salvation Army, Wesley Mission, Richmond PRA, in Juvenile Justice, CALD & Indigenous communities, and in schools.
She regularly facilitates collaborations of multiple stakeholders, including Local Area Health services, community housing providers, large and small NGOs, usually in the areas of collective impact and community self-determination. She currently runs public trainings in Facilitation, Working with Conflict in Groups and working Creatively with difference in groups. Aside from her own practice, she is the Public Program Lead and on Faculty for ANZPOP (Australia New Zealand Process Oriented Psychology), is on the Executive Committee for Whale Chorus (Newcastle-based Theatre company) and is an Associate with Collaboration for Impact.