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Liem Truong. Tutor of WEA Sydney

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Vivian, BA, Grad Cert in TESOL, is an experienced and innovative educator with over 30 years of teaching English and Arts and Crafts in both Hong Kong and Australia. She has also taught Chinese (Cantonese) at the Wollongong Community Language School. Vivian has tutored at WEA Sydney and MCC since 2022. She believes in facilitating creativity, confidence, and lifelong learning through hands-on, student-centred approaches. Driven by a passion for teaching, Vivian enjoys sharing her knowledge and creative techniques with students in a fun and engaging learning environment.

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Mia Tsikrikas, (Master of Teaching, BA (Honours Class I)), has taught English Literature for the past six years and has been at the WEA since mid-2022. She majored in eighteenth-century literature, with minors in Ancient History and Italian, and received first class honours for her thesis on eighteenth-century ballet and its influences on the literature of its time. Mia is a creative at heart and enjoys writing short stories just as much as she does reading them, as well as picking up her crochet hook or knitting needles in her spare time. She believes there is no one-size-fits-all approach to learning and practices a student-centred pedagogy, differentiating her lessons according to her students’ interests and learning styles. Mia is ultimately an advocate of life-long learning and believes that one’s education never truly stops.

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Silvia is a native Italian speaker. She grew up in a small town close to Milan, then she moved to Madrid and in 2012 she came to Sydney. She received a Bachelor Degree in Marketing and Public Relations, a LOTE certificate from the University of New South Wales and a Teaching Certificate from the University of Sydney. Silvia has been teaching Italian to children, HSC students and adults at all levels for a number of institutions and schools including Co.As.It, Australian Catholic University and several local Sydney Community Colleges.

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Gavin brings a lifelong engagement with philosophy to his teaching, shaped by some 30 years professional employment here and overseas. He holds a double major in English and Philosophy (BA), and an MA (Honours) in Literature. He has tutored at the University of Sydney, and taught Communications at TAFE for over a decade.

By “going back to school” in early adulthood, Gavin experienced first‑hand the transformative power of education. In this time, he developed enduring commitment to philosophical study and inquiry. More than the study of ideas, he sees philosophy as an awakening—a way of discovering and resolving forms of un-freedom and, perhaps, to see afresh, at some deeper level, what we already knew

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After working as an osteopath in the UK for 16 years John realised a life-long dream and went to China to study Tai Chi for three-and-a-half years, receiving his teaching certificate in Tai Chi & Qigong there. He is also qualified as a Gym Instructor & Personal Trainer, which along with his osteopathic training and experience means he is comfortable teaching people of all ages and abilities. Since moving to Sydney he has taught in a variety of situations, from nursing homes to outdoor classes in Redfern Park.

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Wesley Watkins. Tutor of WEA Sydney

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WEA Sydney Ramblers. Tutor of WEA Sydney

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Martin Wetherill is a commercial Videographer / Photography teacher. He has taught Cinema Studies & Visual Literacy in High Schools in Mexico & in Rome; where he discovered the art of the 16th Century Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio. His book Caravaggio da Roma will be published in 2026. He currently leads Photo Walks in Sydney’s Rocks district at night, and daytime explorations of the cinematic abandoned spaces on Cockatoo Island.

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Having spent 20 years in project and senior management in the IT industry working for companies such as IBM and Microsoft, Jenni-Lee moved into independent schools in 2003 as a science teacher initially and then in senior executive positions. Joining the AISNSW Leadership Centre at the start of 2016, she became the Dean in 2021. A strong believer in lifelong learning, Jenni-Lee has also taught in each of her roles, delivering Business Analysis and Project Management courses in Asia Pacific for IBM and Leadership development courses in her last role.

Jenni-Lee is passionate about neuroscience and has completed several qualifications through the Neuroscience Academy and the NeuroLeadership Institute in New York. Subsequently, she developed several neuroscience frameworks around leading in uncertain times and how the brain learns, and published her book The Other AI; Finding your Superpower with Neuroscience in 2023_._