Some people move through life collecting answers. Others move through life collecting questions. And then there are people like Kathryn Roberts, who learn that the real transformation happens when you’re willing to unlearn everything you thought you knew.

Kathryn grew up in Perth as the youngest of three, wandering gardens as a toddler, talking to nature, and asking the kinds of questions that make adults uncomfortable. She was raised by socialist parents who encouraged her to think for herself, but she always sensed something more, something unnamed, was sitting just beyond the edges of ordinary life.

Her story takes us through family breakdown, loss, illness, and a long search for meaning that led her from London’s photography studios to acupuncture clinics, from rebirthing workshops to two years on the road in a Ford Falcon, and eventually to the Hawaiian island of Molokai where she lived off‑grid, restored taro patches, and learned the spiritual foundational teachings of becoming a Kumu Pa’a in a lineage of over 50 generations from Halawa Valley Molokai.

Kathryn didn’t just study a philosophy. She lived it. She unlearned. She listened. She sat in silence long enough to hear what most people never slow down to notice.

Today, she carries those teachings into the modern world, bridging cultures and worlds, and helping people reconnect to something deeper, steadier, and more grounded than the noise of everyday life.

This is a story about curiosity, courage, and the willingness to follow a path even when you can’t see where it leads.

This is a CBF grant funded project available via podcast in July 2026 and broadcast nationally across the Community Radio Network later in the year.