About Us
Hi, I’m Katrina
Katrina Bell is an educator, life coach, and meditation teacher with a passion for helping learners thrive. As a parent of a neurodivergent child and an experienced teacher across schools and universities, she has seen how traditional learning environments can overlook individual strengths. This inspired her to create Joy Lab Learning, a space where learning is tailored, meaningful, and joyful.
Katrina believes that when learning aligns with a child’s needs, interests, and curiosity, everything changes. Her approach combines challenge with support, helping learners build confidence, develop mastery, and engage deeply with their education. She has designed innovative programs blending arts, research, and pedagogy — from creative geography projects using cake to reinforce concepts, to student-led wellbeing apps — always centering the learner’s experience.
Across her career, Katrina has taught Humanities, Social Sciences, Drama, and Performing Arts, worked with gifted and neurodivergent learners, and led programs that foster creativity, resilience, and self-expression. She has directed school and community productions, mentored teachers, presented professional development, and facilitated workshops empowering students to communicate, perform, and explore their potential.
Beyond the classroom, Katrina is active in community initiatives, from founding New Vision Theatre, a youth-focused theatre program, to presenting her Barefaced Stories, exploring resilience and neurodivergence, and raising funds for youth mental health.
Through Joy Lab Learning, Katrina creates a learning environment where curiosity is nurtured, challenge is welcomed, and learners experience the joy of achieving their potential.
MA Education (Research)
Certified Mindset Coach
Mindfulness & Meditation Teacher
Grad Dip Sec (English/Drama)
BA Drama Studies
Hi, I’m Jaye
I’m an experienced high school teacher who loves helping young people feel capable, curious, and excited about learning. I’ve worked in Perth schools for more than twenty years — across a range of diverse school settings within primary, secondary and Education Support. I’m passionate about guiding students as they grow and navigate new learning environments.
Creating a safe, calm, and welcoming space is central to my practice. Drawing on evidence‑based approaches through training I’ve undertaken with Berry Street Education Model and Dr Ross Greene’s CPS framework, I take a neuroaffirming approach that responds to each learner’s unique needs. This helps students feel understood, supported, and confident enough to take on new challenges and explore different ways of learning.
As a literacy specialist, with a strong background in English and English as an Additional Language or Dialect, I help students build essential capabilities — critical literacy, creativity, problem‑solving, and interpreting what teachers are really asking for. My style is supportive, relational, and designed to help students feel prepared - both academically and socially. I also encourage them to understand who they are as learners, what helps them thrive, and how to recognise the strengths and talents they may not yet see in themselves.
I’m highly skilled at facilitating groups where everyone feels included and able to contribute. As a trained Coach Practitioner, I support students set meaningful goals, build self‑efficacy, and develop the social‑emotional tools they need to feel assured in new and challenging contexts.
Most of all, I want young people to enjoy learning, feel proud of what they can do, and discover that they’re capable of more than they imagine.
Grad Dip Education (Major: English, Minor: ESL, Additional Units in Special Educational Needs)
BA – Humanistic Studies
Dip Languages & Literature
Coach Practitioner