About Co-Creative Academy

Co-Creative Academy is founded and directed by Nina Farid, a contemporary artist and trauma-informed creative wellbeing director with a background as a senior corporate professional.

Originally trained in electrical engineering, Nina’s career progressed into senior technical and leadership roles including Electrical Engineer, Radio Frequency Engineer, Solutions Architect, and Senior Manager within one of Australia’s largest retail organisations. Over many years, she became a recognised high performer, working across complex systems, strategy, and leadership.

Alongside this success, a deeper inquiry quietly accompanied her journey. A recurring question beneath productivity and performance. What does it truly mean to be human, and is this all there is?

Driven by curiosity rather than dissatisfaction, Nina began studying science and spirituality in parallel, exploring systems theory, quantum physics, consciousness, and the nature of human experience. This inquiry gradually shifted her focus from optimisation and output toward wholeness, deep awareness, meaning, and presence.

She later trained in the Aletheia Coaching Method, a presence-based approach grounded in the understanding that the human being is already whole and nothing is missing. The work centres on unfolding rather than fixing, allowing awareness and integration to emerge naturally. This philosophy remains foundational to her directorial style and the guiding principles of Co-Creative Academy.

From this place, Nina went on to study art therapy and became a certified trauma-informed art therapist, grounding her work in emotional safety, nervous system awareness, and non-verbal expression. Art became both a practice and a language. A way to access depth beyond words.