Murray Irwin is an outdoor educator and adventure therapy group leader with over 14 years of experience. For five years he worked with at-risk youths and spent three years designing and delivering award-winning sustainability behaviour change programs. He currently co-ordinates psychosocial programs for people living with a mental illness. Murray's first career was in commercial finance. To pursue his love of the outdoors he completing a Diploma of Recreation and has since spent most of the past 14 years working with young people as a group leader, youth worker and educator. As an outdoor educator Murray led week-long bushwalking, rafting and canoeing expeditions with school groups, teaching outdoors skills along with environmental awareness, leadership and personal development. He has worked for the Outdoor Education Group, Evolve and Geelong Grammar - Timbertop. Fascinated by the therapeutic aspects of outdoor adventure led Murray to work with at-risk youth. The work was intense: a remote cattle property in central Queensland was the base for Youth Enterprise Trust's 14-day residential program. Typo Station's 20-day residential program including a 9-day hike in remote areas of Victoria, of which Murray is a veteran of many expeditions. Spending days on end with groups of adolescents confronting issues was rewarding but challenging. Murray also worked for the Brotherhood of St Lawrence, twice being a team leader for 6-month long workplace skills training programs for young adults. At Environment Victoria, a not-for-profit organisation, he facilitated behaviour change programs. Working with local communities and groups, he helped promote behaviours that reduced water and energy use along with teaching applied learning certificate students' leadership skills and sustainable behaviours. Before leaving Environment Victoria, Murray oversaw all of their community education and behaviour change programs. His first book Encouraging Appropriate Behaviour: A Six-Step Approach provides a training framework in dealing with difficult behaviour. Murray currently divides his time between writing, running his training company and being a part-time psychosocial and respite programs coordinator that promotes wellness for those living with a mental illness. When not outdoors hiking or paddling a river, Murray enjoys reading non- fiction and planning treks to do when he next returns to Nepal. He currently lives in Melbourne.