Based out of Melbourne, Australia, Joel is an award winning writer, keynote speaker, creativity specialist, educator and, having performed for hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world, is one of Australia’s most successful internationally touring, performance poets.
Full-time in his creative career for the past fifteen years, Joel was the third ever Australian representative at the Individual World Poetry Slam Championships in the USA as well the co-founder of community arts organisation, ‘The Centre for Poetics and Justice’.
He has five published books as well as five spoken word/music albums and is currently the Director of The School for Creative Development, the Artist Ambassador for aid and development organisation ‘TEARFUND Australia’, and is the co-founder/host of the The Deep Place: On Creativity and Spirituality Podcast. It is this intersection, of creativity and spirituality, he is most passionate about and over the last 15 years has taught his creative process to more than 70,000 students in colleges and schools all over the world.