Directors

DIRECTORS 2025-2026

Amie Storer - Treasurer
Amie has worked in a wide range of roles across the community sector and has a strong commitment to Social Role Valorisation (SRV) and supporting people to access the good things in life. She was first introduced to SRV in 2012 through the two-day Towards a Better Life workshop in Brisbane. This experience strongly shaped how she sees the world and continues to influence her personal and professional practice.

Since then, Amie has deepened her SRV learning by completing PASSING and SRV 10 workshops, and spending five years in formal preparation to become an SRV educator. She presented at International SRV Conferences in 2018 and 2025, and was a Speaker at the 2024 Australian SRV Gathering. Amie is now an accredited SRV Lead Co-Teacher and delivers the Towards a Better Life workshop across Australia.

A member of the ASRVA community since 2016, Amie brings creative problem-solving skills, extensive experience, and a strong commitment to SRV principles to the Board.

Amie’s SRV work is also shaped by lived experience. As a parent of a son with a disability, she has seen both the value of applying SRV in everyday life and the systemic challenges faced by marginalised people. This perspective informs and strengthens her advocacy, leadership, and governance work.

Professionally, Amie is the General Manager of Better Together, a not-for-profit organisation supporting marginalised people to build skills, connect with their communities, and gain meaningful employment. She has worked with Better Together since 2011 and values the ongoing opportunities it provides to learn, apply, and teach SRV within both organisational and community contexts.

Outside of work, Amie enjoys travelling, crafting and painting, playing team sports, and spending time with friends and family. She also enjoys podcasts and a good film or television series.

Kane Morgan - Secretary
Kane Morgan has experienced social devaluation both personally and professionally. He strongly believes in using Social Role Valorisation (SRV) to guide action that counters and reverses its negative effects.

Kane has been a member of the ASRVA Board since 2016, where he has contributed to the growth of the Australian SRV community. He is passionate about supporting an expanding SRV community of practice and sees it as an important space for people to learn, grow, and feel part of something meaningful.

Kane has a particular interest in PASSING (the SRV practicum workshop). He sees PASSING as an essential SRV learning experience for those who really want to understand SRV and how to apply it.

Growing up in Sydney, Kane gained a wide range of formative experiences through youth leadership roles and family life. While still at school, he began volunteering in recreation and social programs for young people and people with disabilities. He has since worked across a broad range of human services in both government and non-government settings, supporting people from childhood through to older age.

Alongside his practical experience, Kane completed graduate and postgraduate studies in Education, Health Science, and Developmental Disability. However, it was through his introduction to SRV that his learning and experiences came together. SRV helped him understand what was going wrong and how to create positive, lasting change.

Since then, Kane has remained committed to ongoing SRV learning and connection with others who share this interest. He has attended numerous SRV workshops and events and believes that every learning opportunity offers new insight and understanding.
Kane has been involved in many PASSING workshops in roles ranging from participant to team leader and co-leader, and he is actively involved in the SRV educator group. He has attended and presented at conferences in Australia and the United States and has participated in the SRV10 study group, as well as numerous ASRVA online education and discussion sessions.

Outside of his work in SRV, Kane enjoys outdoor activities and values family and community life with his wife on the NSW South Coast.

Leanne Pearman
Leanne Pearman has more than 35 years of experience in the areas of disability, community, and human services. This work is grounded in a deep belief that every person has value, purpose, and the right to belong. Social Role Valorisation (SRV) has deeply shaped Leanne’s work. For her, SRV is more than a theory. It is a way of seeing the world and a guide for action that influences her leadership and everyday practice.

Over three decades, Leanne has learned, applied, taught, and shared SRV and its core ideas. These include the importance of valued social roles, positive social image, skill development, and meaningful participation in community life. She has introduced and supported the thinking and use of SRV in leadership development, service design, organisational culture, and safeguarding practice, particularly in the areas of community inclusion, individualised living, and supported decision-making.

As CEO of the Australian Inclusion Group, which includes Inclusion WA and Inclusion Solutions, Leanne has embedded SRV principles into governance, strategy, and daily practice. The organisation provides individualised support to people with disability to pursue real lives in the community, including meaningful work, relationships, home, and contribution. Earlier in her career, her work with WA’s Individualised Services also focused on strengthening the practical application of SRV with people, families, and service providers.

Leanne is an active contributor to the SRV community in Western Australia, nationally, and internationally. She presents at conferences, supports direct support workers and leaders, and developed training on contemporary applications of SRV, particularly how SRV can guide safeguarding, inclusion, and leadership in today’s complex systems. She co-leads the WA SRV Community of Practice and is a member of ASRVA and ISRVA.

Bringing experience as a CEO, trainer, and advocate for system reform, Leanne is known for helping others translate SRV thinking into real contexts. She is deeply committed to mentoring emerging practitioners, strengthening reflective practice, and building bridges between SRV theory and day-to-day practice, so that SRV remains so that SRV remains strong and well applied in Australia.

Greg Mackay - Chair
It was 1973. Greg was a student psychiatric nurse in a very large institution. A colleague gave him Wolfensberger’s book The principle of normalization in human services to read. Then they and others formed a group to voluntarily find more typical living options for people leaving the hospital (usually people would end up in dreadful hostels). That book was a great advance on the original idea of Normalisation and was a prelude to SRV.

Fast forward to now, and Greg is Chair of the ASRVA Board of Directors. He has studied Psychology, Community Services, Peace Studies, and Business Management among others. His training in SRV and related areas include all the major SRV learning opportunities: several Towards a Better Life (TaBL) workshops, three 7-theme SRV workshops, three 10 theme SRV workshops, threePassing practicums, two Passing Masterclasses, one Model Coherency Impact Passing workshop, two Service Design (Model Coherency) workshops, two Resilience events (Raymond Lemay), and a 2-day Team Leader workshop.

Greg has participated in several events run by the Training Institute. These include the 7-day moral coherency workshop, the 11-day Conceptual & Moral Foundations workshop (member of organising group), the Limitations of the Law, Liberation of Oppressed and Handicapped People, History of Human Services, and an Advanced SRV theory workshop presented by Prof Wolfensberger and Susan Thomas in Indianapolis.

In his voluntary SRV roles since 1996, Greg has coordinated three SRV 10-theme workshops, fifteen SRV 7- theme workshops, twenty-eight TaBLs, two Passing Masterclasses, nineteen Passing practicums, the 2024 Australian SRV Gathering, and numerous short events.

Over the past decade in ASRVA, Greg has focussed on several key matters. These include organisational viability; the replacement of retiring Senior Trainers in both Teaching and in Passing; moving ASRVA to being a Community of Practice and thus developing an identifiable Australian SRV Community; ensuring that the great work that Australians do using SRV is shared; placing energy into supporting the application of SRV rather than just the teaching; and the strengthening of ASRVA’s safeguarding of theory and materials and of its accreditation processes.

Greg’s work history has long been influenced by SRV. In particular, he has drawn on the SRV concept of Model Coherency, aligning each organisation’s strategic direction with ensuring that human services truly serve the people by knowing them and their needs well and ensuring that relevant and potent efforts are delivered at the right time and in the right place. He has used SRV in services assisting people with disability, with aged people, in domestic family violence responses, in the criminal justice arena, in social housing, with refugee and asylum seekers, and in Indigenous responses.

Kylie Duncis
Kylie has worked with people with disability and their families for over 20 years in a range of roles. She brings a strong and continually growing commitment to Social Role Valorisation (SRV), as both a long-time student of SRV and an accredited SRV Teacher.
Kylie’s interest in SRV began around 2010 while she was managing a group home in Adelaide. By that time, she had spent about seven years working in segregated and congregated service settings. Through this work, she witnessed the impact of low expectations and the ways people can be treated when they are seen as less than fully human or as ‘eternal children.’ This model of support increasingly conflicted with her personal values and prompted her to search for better ways of working.

Kylie was introduced to SRV by a long-time student and user of SRV, Jayne Barrett. This led to Kylie reading widely about SRV and seeking further learning opportunities. In 2012, while teaching Certificate IV in Disability, she incorporated SRV concepts into the curriculum.

Her engagement in the SRV community of practice was aided by attending the two-day introductory SRV workshop, Towards a Better Life (TaBL) with Jane Sherwin, followed by the more challenging leadership-level 10-theme SRV workshop. Kylie later attended her first 5-day SRV practicum, called Passing which she describes as the deepest learning experience of her life.

In terms of her work role, Kylie has been a Circles Facilitator in Adelaide for the past decade. The individuals at the heart of each circle are highly vulnerable to social devaluation, and the use of SRV has been critical in working towards a better life for each person, alongside members of each Circle.

Kylie was a member of the SRV Educators Study Group, undertaking several years of study and practice to become one of the next generation of SRV teachers. She is now a committed member of the Australian SRV Educator’s Community of Practice and an accredited TaBL Teacher. Kylie has since led and co-taught TaBL workshops across Australia, and is a Team Leader in Passing workshops.

In addition, Kylie has developed and delivered a range of SRV-related short sessions, including Introduction to SRV, Introduction to Social Devaluation, Valued Roles, and Right Relationship. Alongside her roles of teacher, student and user of SRV, Kylie has been an SRV keynote speaker, and presented well-received SRV-based presentations at seminars.

Rhiannon Brodie
Rhiannon has been involved with ASRVA for several years and brings both professional expertise and lived experience to her role. She was first introduced to Social Role Valorisation (SRV) in 2011, an experience that proved to be a defining moment both personally and professionally.

Growing up with a sister who was born with a significant intellectual disability was formative. This shaped Rhiannon’s understanding of inclusion, belonging, and the importance of intentional support. SRV gave language and structure to experiences her family had long lived. It has helped to clarify why meaningful relationships, valued roles, and everyday life opportunities often require thoughtful planning and strong advocacy.

In 2011, Rhiannon attended the International SRV Conference in Canberra, followed by the two-day Towards a Better Life workshop. She has since continued to deepen her practice and learning through ongoing SRV training and development, including completing PASSING, Master Class PASSING, Moral Coherency, and SRV 10. From there, her involvement grew through the NSW SRV local group, Foundations Forum, where she has served as Chairperson for several years. Through this role, she has supported learning, connection, and leadership within the SRV community and contributed to building strong learning communities across New South Wales.

Although her professional career has since shifted into a different field, the SRV framework continues to underpin how Rhiannon approaches her work, her relationships, and her broader contribution to community. It remains central to her sister’s life and to many of the personal and professional connections she holds.

Rhiannon brings strong communication skills, sound judgement, and a collaborative, thoughtful problem-solving approach to her work. She is committed to continuous learning, personal development, and building the capability of others through coaching, collaboration, and shared leadership.

Outside of work and volunteer roles, Rhiannon enjoys being active, spending time outdoors away from technology with her kelpie puppy, travelling, and connecting with friends and family. She also loves cooking, watching films and theatre, and listening to live music.