Liz Scarfe

Please note: Liz is currently on a Leave of Absence from faculty, returning January 2026.

Liz works as an educator, facilitator, consultant, supervisor and psychotherapist.

She is a white settler of English and Scottish ancestry, born and living in unceded Wurundjeri land in Naarm/Melbourne.

Liz began her journey as an educator in the forest campaigns of southwest Western Australia, learning and teaching about nonviolent direct action, conflict transformation, deep ecology, and collaboration.

Moving back to Melbourne, she continued learning and teaching in these areas, studying with deep green activist elders like John Seed and Joanna Macy, and teaching in local nonviolent community groups and with Peace Brigades International.

Prior to discovering Processwork, Liz worked in adult education, community development, human resource management, quality and risk management, non-violent community safety, and local government.

Liz was a facilitating staff member at the Poland Worldwork forum in 2014 and in the Greece Worldwork forum in 2017 and is also a faculty member of the Processwork Institute of India. She joined the ANZPOP faculty in 2017 and served as the Executive Director for six years.

Liz completed the Masters of Culture, Health and Medicine (medical anthropology) in 2024, leading to her current PhD studies in anthropology.

In her spare time, Liz enjoys making things with her hands and writing about herself in the third-person. She also has two YouTube channels - Collaborative Learning for Cultural Repair (lots of videos but currently on hiatus) and My Woolly PhD (a weekly vlog about what she's learning and making each week in her PhD).