About Us

Join us to breathe fresh air, to strengthen your physical and mental wellbeing and create a deeper sense of community connection.

Capacity Building - a community organisation dedicated to bringing evidence-based transformational skills to all who need it.

Our Story

Darci and Evie founded Capacity Building on the essential values of inclusion and wellbeing.

For the last five years this dynamic duo have collaborated on various wellbeing projects in the community ranging from training, running workshops and transformational residential retreats. However, they became increasingly aware of two haunting questions: Who is not here? Who is being excluded and why?

Darci and Evie bring two lifetimes of professional and personal experience to their work.

Darci, born and bred in the Northern Rivers NSW, moved her way through a rural upbringing and faced many of the challenges still confronting young people in the area today. As a part of a community that embraces the reality of natural disasters from floods to fires, Darci grew up with a connection to the land and a respect for the environment that has kept her grounded and resilient. However, community based challenges surrounding lack of opportunity, disengagement from education and lack of inclusion remained a theme throughout her younger years. Darci’s perseverance, drive and good fortune eventually brought her to the path of yoga, Buddhism and psychotherapy. At a time when the wellness industry began to boom with fad-like offerings, Darci committed herself to a disciplined practice of evidence-based training and inner work. The fruits of this have been vast. She founded Australia Yoga Teacher Training which delivers trauma informed and Yoga Alliance approved training to yoga teachers both within Australia and Internationally. Her passion for growth continues as she has just embarked on her own learning as a Gestalt Psychotherapist.

Evie arrived in Australia in 2012 after having grown up in the Bahamas, Costa Rica and the UK. Her adult life was devoted to working as a Child Psychotherapist in both the UK and the Bahamas. Evie’s passion towards an inclusive world of equal opportunity led her to specialise in trauma based interventions for young people including the Expressive Arts, Attachment Therapy and EMDR. She continued this work through various charities and schools within Australia. Following the trauma research led by Dr Bessel Van Der Kolk, Evie decided to train as a yoga teacher herself.

Darci and Evie’s paths crossed in the yoga world on the Gold Coast. In 2020 they joined forces professionally through Australia Yoga Teacher Training and began to curate transformational retreats. However, their ambition to draw on their skills and find wider avenues through which to work with communities who face significant barriers to inclusion culminated in Capacity Building AU- a community organisation dedicated to bringing evidence led transformational skills’ based learning to all who need it. .

They are looking forward to sharing this journey of inclusion and wellbeing with you as they create the foundation for this not-for-profit community led organisation.