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Yvette Timmins has covered everything in Floristry from Casual Florist Assistant to Apprentice, Senior Florist, Florist Shop Manager, Florist Shop Owner, Floristry Teacher and Principal of her school Bloom College she founded in 2013.  Yvette was also a founding director and board member of Australia’s peak national body, Flower Industry Australia. Yvette is also a co-founder of the charity Floral acts of kindness, which was set up by Bloom College graduate Dr Isabelle De Solier, the charity delivers flower bouquets to nursing homes and hospitals.  It could be said that Yvette’s passion and skill for working with flowers is in her blood, Yvette’s Grandmother, Great Aunt and Great Grandmother were all florists. Yet Yvette will tell you that arranging flowers is not an inherited special skill reserved for only a few, but rather is available to everyone. Yvette believes we are all born with an innate sense of creativity and a need to connect with nature. Arranging flowers feeds both of those human needs simultaneously; the only requirement she says is to enable the process by getting our own inner negative self talk and criticism out of the way. Creating a comfortable and nurturing environment allows our creativity flow. The ongoing positive flow on effects that Yvette has witnessed first hand over her 30+ years in the industry include, but are not limited to, a decrease in feelings of anxiety and depression.  Yvette is passionate about many causes, yet possibly the highest on the list is; the need for greater opportunity to connect with nature and our creativity for the purpose of generating positive effects on our mental health. It is this reason Yvette has developed Bloom College courses Online and via the App to ensure people are not restricted by location or mental or physical ability. Yvette’s most recent project is her recently published book – Feed Your Soul with Flowers

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