About Andrew

Minister of the Word in The Uniting Church in Australia, degrees in Agriculture and Theology, worked in Aboriginal communities, on farms, in Uniting Church congregations and in Information Technology....

Computing  more

I met computers in 1975 with punch card programming and was only saved from serious addiction by spending the next few years "outback." 

I have been working as a Consultant Technician since 1999, specialising in Microsoft Small Business Server.

A good deal of my work has revolved around teaching people to be at ease and efficient with computers, and to fit them appropriately into office procedures. This has included introducing people to computers from scratch, through to setting up of home offices for Corporate Staff who are working from home.

My computing work has involved extensive research of new methodologies and technologies, becoming rapidly proficient in them, and then adapting them to the expressed needs of clients.  more

Values  more

A good and successful life does not come about by accident. It takes deliberate work. Neither does a good society "just happen." It too, needs work and intention, and by people who know something of who they are.

Values consulting is about helping people and organisations identify and articulate what is most important for them. Values consulting does not tell a person what to believe.  It is about helping people find ways to act on those values. more

Raison d'être

In our society in Australia we have some confusion between who we are and what we do for a living. At meetings, and parties and down the pub, we ask, "What do you do?" It's a pragmatic and sensible question; "I'm a Gypsy Joker," versus "I'm a cop" tells us quite a lot! In some cases, as at a trade fair where it's all schmooze and networking, it's the proper question for the occasion.

The problem is that for many of us, that's as deep as we get. There are relatively few role models for asking and answering the questions, "Who are you? Who am I?"  Often we need a long road trip, or hours around a remote camp fire before we are really comfortable with these questions.

It's not that we are disinterested,
or shallow, or uncaring,
or without needs.

But something in our society has always held us "at arm's length" from each other, and often ourselves, especially the men.


The important question in life is Who am I, not What do I do?
A deeper, and more meaningful life depends on how we answer this question. When we know who we are or, at least, have consciously begun that journey of discovery, all our endeavours have the potential to be
more focussed,
more satisfying,
even more profitable.

If we never seek
an answer to who we are, we are missing the depths of life, pushed by unconscious desires and fears, naively paddling in the shallows, and when the savage side of life bites us hard, out of our depth. The clearer we are about who we are, the better we will do what we do.