About us

We’re a social enterprise that helps to provide innovative solutions  for young people and families to navigate our rapidly changing world.

Jane Hanckel    Co-founder & Director 

I have a background in film, communication, business and education. I have worked with leading Australian filmmakers, including co-producing with Chris Noonan and Richard Mordaunt in the 1980’s one of Australia’s most acclaimed documentary films – Stepping Out and editing with Sara Bennett 14’Good, Eighteen’s Better directed by Gillian Armstrong. In the 1980’s I was the Documentary Project Manager at the Australian Film Commission for two years overseeing the Documentary Production Fund and the Documentary Fellowship Program with Tom Haydon.

I am an author and creator of two books, Growing Greener Children and Parenting as an Art, internationally published books on education. Parenting as an Art was translated and published in China by Lipin Publishers, Beijing and by Huy Hoang Publishing House in Vietnam. I have introduced successful innovative education programs into disadvantaged communities across Australia, spoken at international conferences across the world on education, health and wellbeing and in 2017 I created the Amazing Child Online Course which brought together research and knowledge for parents and educators.

In March 2019 I traveled to the UK and Finland to start filming CREATIVE RESONANCE. The film and development of the concept is informed by my fourteen years of research in socially and economically disadvantaged communities In Australia, including Aboriginal urban and remote communities where I developed and ran programs to support wellbeing of children and families. I have worked with and seen the struggles of children, families and communities as they attempt to try to establish meaningful relationships with each other and try to keep their children at school in a system in which they have little faith and belief. I believe the film and the iVALUE App will provide much needed support for these families to make more informed choices and to establish better communication and connection that will result in improved well being, resilience and self-esteem for their children.

I am an Associate Board Member of the Northern Rivers Community Foundation, a foundation that connects people and communities to tackle challenging social and environmental problems in the Northern Rivers. NSW, Australia.

Gabrielle Dalton – Consultant Producer, Creative Resonance 

Film Producer-Mentor

Gabrielle Dalton has been working creatively in multi media platforms from the outset of her career, combining her skills as arts journalist, fine art curator, filmmaker, script researcher-writer and producer, radio producer, arts program initiator and published author. She has developed and led key creative teams and produced highly innovative cultural explorations from concept stages to broadcast and public exhibition, both nationally and internationally. She has been the recipient of grants from Screen Australia, Australia Council, and acquisition from Broadcasters, which have always been successfully acquitted and publicly well received.

Dalton has a 40+ year track record in scripting and Producing broadcast and theatrical Feature Documentaries, all exploring themes of society and culture.

As a Producer, she headed a production company and creative team which has become internationally acclaimed for the trilogy of feature films Soundtrack to War (05) Rampage (06) and The Miscreants of Taliwood (09), all on the themes of popular music, and cultures in conflict, and highly awarded for creativity and originality of subject matter: screened at MoMA -NY 2005/7/10 curator Sally Berger, 2009 Telluride curator Tom Luddy, and London, New York, Chicago, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Montreal, Vancouver, Amsterdam, Brussels, Berlinale Film Festivals, & IDFA by invitation and award. She was also a contributing Producer (credited) on Fahrenheit 9/11.

Gabrielle Dalton – resides in the Northern Rivers Region of NSW, and currently works as a Film Mentor-Producer, (with a special interest in contemporary fast paced evolutions in media and culture), Dalton is also a scriptwriter and Fine Arts advisor.

Derek Spice Foundation Creative Intelligence  Co-founder

I have an extensive business background ranging from cocoa trading, music, motor racing, horticulture and education. Since 2004, with Jane Hanckel, I have helped establish InspirED and The Foundation for Creative Intelligence to help children realise their full potential.

 

Collaborators

Rodrigo Serran Vives

Nadine Jaeger 

Graphic designer

Nadine is passionate about environmental and community activism, sustainable living, design, with a practical understanding of the need to understand the bigger picture.  She is enjoys supporting people with her design skills to make a change in the world.

Nadine is responsible for initiating and leading the redesign for our social impact enterprise.

 

Eric Wang

Web & Platform Developer

Eric is originally from mainland China and Hong Kong and joined InspirED to develop a Social Network Platform for building parents’ community and parenting education.