Supporting you to help others
Who is Savi Consulting and what do we stand for?Why we get out of bed in the morning?We want to help people gain skills to communicate better and to be able to encourage positive behaviour. We know this leads to less problem behaviour. And that means happier and healthier lives and relationships.
But we want to help as many people as we can. So by helping organisations increase the skills of their staff in encouraging appropriate behaviour, this in turn helps their clients adopt more positive behaviour and to communicate better. This creates opportunities for those clients to experience more positive relationships leading to happier and healthy lives. By helping you we know that we are helping others.
What we want to do about it
We have develop training on how to respond to inappropriate and bullying behaviour. To have the biggest impact we offer a range of printed and online material that is accessible and affordable. This is so anyone, from parents and volunteer youth leaders to professionals can easily access and learn how to encourage appropriate behaviour.
For organisations within Australia that work towards building life skills or supporting people, we offer help in training their staff. We want to support practitioners so they can be as effective as possible. Through the efforts of practitioner’s we would then see these skills being past onto their clients.
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Who works at Savi Consulting?
Savi Consulting is owned and managed by Murray Irwin.
Murray is an outdoor educator and adventure therapy group leader with over 15 years of experience. For five years he worked with at-risk youth and spent three years designing and delivering award-winning sustainability behaviour change programs. He currently divides his time with a community organisation co-ordinating psychosocial programs for people living with a mental illness and running Savi Consulting.
Fascinated by the therapeutic aspects of outdoor adventure led Murray to work with at-risk youth. The work was intense: a remote cattle property in central Queensland was the base for Youth Enterprise Trust’s 14-day residential program. Typo Station’s 20-day residential program including a 9-day hike in remote areas of Victoria, of which Murray is a veteran of many expeditions. Spending days on end with groups of adolescents confronting issues was rewarding but challenging. Murray also worked for the Brotherhood of St Lawrence, twice being a team leader for 6-month long workplace skills training programs for young adults.
At Environment Victoria, a not-for-profit organisation, he facilitated behaviour change programs. Working with local communities and groups, he helped promote behaviours that reduced water and energy use along with teaching applied learning certificate students’ leadership skills and sustainable behaviours. Before leaving Environment Victoria, Murray oversaw all of their community education and behaviour change programs.
Murray currently divides his time between writing, running Savi Consulting and being a part-time coordinator for psychosocial and respite outdoor programs that promotes wellness for those living with a mental illness. When not outdoors Murray enjoys reading non- fiction and planning treks to do when he next returns to Nepal. He currently lives in Melbourne.
Murray currently divides his time between writing, running Savi Consulting and being a part-time coordinator for psychosocial and respite outdoor programs that promotes wellness for those living with a mental illness. When not outdoors Murray enjoys reading non- fiction and planning treks to do when he next returns to Nepal. He currently lives in Melbourne.
To find out more about Murray contact us and chat to him or
see his profile at www.linkedin.com/in/murrayirwin
see his profile at www.linkedin.com/in/murrayirwin