Pottery can change your life. Most potters already know this, but Chris and Michaela Goan are living proof of this. Chris was a mental health manager, exhausted by almost 30 years of social work and community mental health provision. Michaela is a former community worker and still loved her work but not the direction of the organisation she was working for. Both longed to live a more creative and sustainable life, and ceramics became the means to achieve it. Seatree, the business that grew out of this change, is a collaboration of words and clay. Chris writes the poetry, and Michaela is the chief potter.
This is just part of the story, because a change of life requires much more than just a new way to earn money. For Chris and Michaela, this involved a major re-evaluation in the broadest
