Rachel Humphries, Centre Director

Rachel is a born and bred Highlander and worked as a temporary centre director for a year at Moniack Mhor in July 2007.  In a spontaneous fit she decided to do a post graduate in primary education at Edinburgh University and spent a year teaching small children to read and write and pretend to be animals of varying shapes and sizes.  She has fatefully found herself winging her way back to her Highland roots at Moniack Mhor.  Previous to this she was involved with the local authority supporting vulnerable young people and children in education.  She has also worked within several visual and musical arts agencies.

Cynthia Rogerson, Programming Director

Cynthia used to be a proper Californian, but that was over 30 years ago and now she is a kind of nebulous hybrid. She’s worked at Moniack since 2003, and so far has not found any two days the same (but that could be due to encroaching senility). She writes novels and short stories, and while at the centre experiences a constant urge to write, which accounts for her occasionally vacant expression. She likes writers. So it’s a very good job for her.

Lyndy Batty, Administrator

Lyndy was doing just fine treading the boards of theatres in England and her beloved Scotland when she foolishly thought that it might be more fun to stay at home and have babies. Twenty five years later she found herself drawn to the beautiful place in the hills and managed to convince the then directors that she should become one of the team. Six years later and she is still there experiencing all the ups and downs of an Arvon Centre; battling through the wind, rain and snow in winter and in summer marvelling at all that sky. Not a writer at all, but passionate about literature and one never knows! Perhaps she should go on an Arvon Course!

 Kelsey Morse, Education Worker

Kelsey recently joined Moniack Mhor as the centre’s first Education Worker. She is from the Midwestern United States, where she trained and worked as an English teacher. An international teacher training program brought her to the Highlands in 2010; everything but the rain stole her heart. Since then she has worked perilously to return for a longer period of time. When not at Moniack, Kelsey walks, blogs and travels to even the remotest areas of the country searching for new perspectives.