GONZALO
BACIGALUPE
University
of Massachusetts, Boston, USA
Gonzalo
is Associate Professor and Director of the Family Therapy Program at the
University of Massachusetts Boston. He is also an Adjunct Research Professor at
the Department of Family Medicine & Community Health, UMASS Medical School.
He also holds an appointment with the National University at Distance in Spain
(UNED). He has been a Senior Fulbright Research Fellow, an APF grantee, and has
been recently selected as Ikerbasque Researcher to initiate family health,
immigrant, and technology research in the Basque Country. His work in the
collaborative and narrative arena started in Chile when he trained in the
mid-eighties as a family therapist and was exposed to the post-Milan and
Maturana’s constructivist ideas, by one of his professors in Chile. Later
during his doctoral studies, he trained and worked with Lynn Hoffnan, Janine
Roberts, and Ernst von Glasersfeld at a time when constructionist ideas became
more known. He has been active as an editor, first as co-editor of the Journal
of Systemic Therapies and presently as the Associate Editor of Family Systems
& Health. Gonzalo still refuses to ping himself as a narrative
therapist and prefers to think of his work as strength-oriented and
located in the larger system or simply as always in movement. His present
work focuses on immigrant and transnational families, public health issues, and
the uses of social technologies in therapy and collaborative health. He feels
privileged of having worked and being a colleague of a meaningful community of
strength-oriented, collaborative, and narrative therapists and researchers.
MAGGIE
CAREY
Narrative
Practices Adelaide: Adelaide, Australia
Maggie
has been involved in the practice of narrative therapy since the early 90's and
currently enjoys a range of opportunities in teaching and making the ideas and
practice of narrative therapy more generally available. She is one of a core of
group of people who, in partnership with Aboriginal colleagues, are developing
and facilitating training for a Diploma in Narrative Approaches for Aboriginal
Workers. As an Associate of the Adelaide Narrative Therapy Centre, Maggie is
looking forward to a time of creative productivity in regards to both practice
and training.
CINDY
I. CARLSON
University
of Texas at Austin, USA
Cindy
Carlson is Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas and
has served as Graduate Adviser since 1998. She is responsible for the academic
endeavors of over 70 master's and 230 doctoral students in the seven
concentrations in the Department of Educational Psychology. She is credited
with developing a student orientation program, a weekly colloquium for
first-year students, a workshop for students nearing graduation, and an on-line
graduate student handbook. In addition to her work with students as an adviser
and teacher, Dr. Carlson is actively involved in the administration of the
graduate program in Educational Psychology. Her most recent research focuses on
ethnic differences in parenting and the effects of ethnic diversity on the peer
social relations and psychosocial development of middle school youth. She has
co-authored two books - "Family-School Intervention: A Systems
Perspective" and "Family Assessment: A Guide for Clinicians and
Researchers." She is a Fellow in the American Psychological Association,
where she currently serves as a council representative and member of the
Committee on Accreditation, and is past president of the Division of School
Psychology.
SAVIONA
CRAMER
Barcai
Institute for Marriage and Family Therapy, Israel
Saviona
has been practicing, teaching and enjoying Narrative ideas for the last 15
years. As a partner at the Barcai Institute for Marriage and Family Therapy in
Israel, she practices Narrative ideas with a range of different people,
cultures and issues as well as teaching Narrative ideas and supervising
therapists.
MOIRA DESLANDES
IAP2, International
Moira is the Executive
Director of International Association for Public Participation (IAP2). She is a
Director of Issues Deliberation Australia/America and serves as a Governor's
appointment on the Medical Board of South Australia, a ministerial appointment
for the Public Space Advisory Committee and is the Chair of the Community
Foundation SA Advisory Board. She is married with four adult children and lives
in Willunga on the Fleurieu Peninsula of South Australia. Moira enjoys the
Willunga Farmers Market and is an active member of Playback Willunga. Moira has
a Bachelor of Arts, a Bachelor of Social Administration, an MLitt, and is a
member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
JIM
DUVALL
Hincks-Dellcrest
Institute, Canada
Jim
Duvall is the Director of Brief Therapy Training Centres-International (a
division of The Hincks-Dellcrest Institute), Director of Training at The
Hincks-Dellcrest Institute and is the previous Clinical Director of a
children's mental health centre. He has been involved in the study of brief and
narrative therapies for over twenty years through clinical practice, research
and training activities. In collaboration with the University of Toronto,
Faculty of Social Work, he serves as co-investigator in a research project that
studies narrative ideas and practices in training and therapy. He is also
involved in assessing and applying the principles and methods of Brief and
Narrative therapies in a variety of context, which include health care, child
welfare, schools, children's mental health, and organizational change
management. Jim serves as the Senior Editor of the Journal of Systemic
Therapies and the Journal of Canadian Counselling. He consults and trains with
various organizations in the United States, Canada and abroad and is noted for
his humorous, interactive and approachable style.
DAVID
EPSTON
David
studied at the universities of Auckland, British Columbia, Edinburgh and
Warwick in anthropology, community development and social work (family
therapy). He originated, along with Michael White, what has come to be known as
Narrative Therapy. He has published extensively on the subject and his best
known books are White and Epston (1990), Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends,
which has been translated in to 12 languages, Epston and White (1992),
Experience, Contradiction, Narrative and Imagination, Freeman, Epston and
Lobovits(1997), Playful Approaches to Serious Problems: Narrative Therapy with
Children and their Families and Maisel, Epston and Borden(2004), Biting the
Hand that Starves You: Inspiring Resistance to Anorexia/Bulimia. Down Under and
Up Over: Travels with Narrative Therapy was released in 2008 along with book
chapters in the Sage Handbook of New Approaches to Business and Organizations
and Critical Feminist Approaches to Disordered Eating. David has been awarded a
D.Litt (1996) from John F. Kennedy University and 'Distinguished Contribution
to Family Therapy’ from the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family
Therapy (2002) and 'Distinguished Contribution to family therapy theory and
practice' from the American Family Therapy Association (2007).
JERRY
GALE, Ph.D
University
of Georgia, USA
Jerry
Gale is the Director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Doctoral Program at the
University of Georgia. He is a Licensed Family Therapist and an approved
supervisor of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. He is
the recipient of the American Family Therapy Academy 2006 Outstanding Research
Award. He received his doctorate in Family Therapy in 1989 from Texas Tech
University, and his Masters Degree in Counseling from the University of Arizona
in 1979. He has extensive training in clinical hypnosis, couples therapy and
children's behavioral issues. He is trained in complimentary therapies,
including mindfulness meditation. Jerry is also a founding member and current
chair of the Athens Crisis Response Team (ACRT), a multidisciplinary group
responding to community crises.
YAEL
GERSHONI
Barcai
Institute for Marriage and Family Therapy, Israel
Yael
has been working and teaching/supervising with Narrative ideas and sees the
world through this perspective. Among the diversity of problems she encounters,
she takes a special interest in women and teenagers that struggle with anorexia
and bulimia. She also works with victims of terrorist attacks - people who have
lost their loved ones and others that struggle with post trauma and is a
partner at the Barcai Institute for Marriage and Family Therapy in Israel.
LESLIE
MOORE
University
of Texas at Austin, USA
Leslie
is a senior lecturer in counsellor education with the Department of Educational
Psychology at the University of Texas. Her focus is on comparative approaches
to psychotherapy, couples therapy, intensive short-term psychodynamic
psychotherapy and narrative therapy.
ELIZABETH
MORGAN
Morgan
Disney and Associates: Australia/Papua New Guinea
Elizabeth
trained and worked as a social worker and has a Masters in Public Policy from
the Australian National University. She is one of the founding Directors of
Morgan Disney & Associates, a highly respected national social policy and
research company based in the national Australian capital of Canberra. She has
over 30 years experience in direct service delivery, senior executive positions
and in government and non-government organisations in the social policy field.
Elizabeth has temporarily taken a position as a Development Practitioner in the
AusAid funded Law and Justice Sector Program with Cardno ACIL in Papua New
Guinea.
SHONA
RUSSELL
Narrative
Practices Adelaide: Adelaide, Australia
Since
beginning work as a family therapist in a non-government community-based
organization in South Australia over 15 years ago, narrative therapy has guided
Shona's therapeutic practice. Shona's work spans a range of contexts including
a specialist service working with the effects of historical sexual abuse, a
family therapy team, and independent practice working with young people, women,
men and couples in response to a wide range of concerns. Alongside her
therapeutic practice, Shona is inspired through her work as a teacher of
narrative therapy providing workshops both locally and internationally. She has
worked for many years on the Dulwich Centre Teaching Faculty and joined Michael
White as an Associate of the Adelaide Narrative Therapy Centre. Through this
work Shona explored narrative practices in the context of trauma. She has
worked with colleagues in Bangladesh, Columbia, Mongolia, Palestine and
Zimbabwe. A key component of Shona's work is the provision of supervision both
for individual practitioners and teams.
PAMELA
RYAN, Ph. D.
Psychology
Beyond Borders, Australia/USA
A
licensed psychologist in her birth country, Australia, Dr. Pamela Ryan works
internationally, holding leadership positions in several international
organizations. Dr. Ryan is Managing Director of the global public policy
"thinkaction tank", Issues Deliberation America / Issues Deliberation
Australia (www.ida.org.au),
Cofounder and Chair of international humanitarian/research organization,
Psychology Beyond Borders (www.psychologybeyondborders.org),
and Cofounder and Chair of the Texas-based Silverton Foundation (www.silvertonfoundation.org).
Dr. Ryan received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas with award winning
research on the psychology of decision-making. Dr. Ryan maintains her strong
ties with academia as a Research Fellow at the Hawke Research Institute,
University of South Australia and the Centre for Australian Studies at the
University of Texas.
JACK
SAUL, Ph.D.
Columbia
University, USA
Jack
Saul, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of Clinical Population and Family Health
at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and Director of the
International Trauma Studies Program. As a psychologist he has created a number
of psychosocial programs for populations that have endured war, torture and
political violence in New York City and is known for his innovative work with
communities that integrates testimony, healing, media, and the performance
arts. He has a private practice in New York City in individual, couple and
family psychotherapy.