Skip to main content

About Us

About Spirit Led Institute

Spirit Led Institute is an Australian independent education provider offering non-accredited online courses, practitioner development, reflective safeguarding education and free learning resources across four streams: Reflective Safeguarding, Healing, Healthy Communities and Spiritual Formation, alongside Professional Development.

Learning here offers knowledge and reflection, not individual counselling or clinical treatment. We provide frameworks to help you see what is actually happening and make an informed choice; your conclusions remain your own.

Founder

Sharon Mackenzie SpiritRSPrac

Founder & Educator

  • Diploma of Counselling
  • Accredited Chaplain
  • Narrative Practice Practitioner · Health & Harmony Colleges
  • Advanced Aromatherapy Practitioner · Health & Harmony Colleges
  • Trauma-Informed Care

Sharon Mackenzie is the founder and educator behind Spirit Led Institute. Her work draws on a Diploma of Counselling, narrative practice, accredited chaplaincy, trauma-informed care training. She develops practical education at the intersection of safeguarding, organisational culture, dignity, authority, psychosocial safety and individual healing.

SpiritRSPrac is a private credential of Spirit Led Institute. It is not statutory registration, AHPRA registration, government accreditation or an AQF qualification.

Sharon Mackenzie, founder and educator
Sharon Mackenzie · Founder & Educator

Outside the work

Coffee, cats and a few chickens

Outside the work, Sharon lives with her husband of 34 years, Shane, their daughter Anna, four semi-feral cats and six chickens. She works part-time at a local Aboriginal youth hostel, and spends her time writing, drinking coffee, eating pizza and playing with her cats.

Sharon’s family, community work and home life are her own, and are separate from the Institute’s education.

Collaborators

Working together

The Institute's courses, writing and resources are currently developed by Sharon Mackenzie. Organisations interested in working with the Institute are welcome to get in touch.

Contact the Institute
Eucalyptus overlooking an Australian valley at sunsetGolden Australian wattle flowers at sunset