I have considerable experience in teaching and training systemic theories and skills as I have been teaching since 2008. I am currently a visiting lecturer for the Tavistock, teaching on the Foundation and Intermediate course in Brighton. I am also a lecturer and tutor with Frontline, a social work training organisation, which is training social workers in the whole UK.
Prior to this I was a lecturer and tutor at the Institute of Family Therapy, London, for four years teaching for the Graduate Certificate in Systemic Practice, between 2008 and 2013. I also taught the Foundation Course for a social care agency based in London through the Tavistock in 2014.
I have delivered several systemic workshops in Jersey for the local Association of Family Therapy on systemic theories and skills between 2015-2018 which helped to create interest in systemic practice and led to establishing the foundation Course now offered by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. I have developed a tailor-made training programme in systemic practice for children’s homes in East Sussex and fostering agencies.
I am passionate about systemic ideas and creativity and I love writing. Over the years I have published several papers on the national Family Therapy magazine, Context, in Human Systems and Murmurations, as follows:
| Publications | Journal/Year |
| Muddles and struggles of a trainee researching race and culture: implications for family therapy training | Context, 97
(June 2008) |
| My journey across systemic training: from ugly duckling to elegant swan | Context December 2009 |
| There is no such a thing as the perfect question | Context April 2011 |
| A training tutorial on solution-focused therapy: a forum of voices sharing their reflections | Context February 2012 |
| Working systemically with groups | Context 121 June 2012 |
| A troubled family therapist undercover: Some reflections on working with ‘troubled families’ in a statutory agency | Context February 2014 |
| Ethical dilemmas and challenges of a supervision group in a statutory service | Context August 2014 |
| Through the haziness of what is systemic: a critical self-reflective question | Context December 2015 |
| Dominant discourses about change and the impact of restructuring on power relations in public services in UK. | Human systems: the journal of therapy, consultation and training 2016, vol 26(2): 221-238 |
| Migration as intergenerational emotional homelessness: a personal story | Human systems: the journal of therapy, consultation and training 2016 vol 27(3): 289-294 |
| Un-professional hug | Context October 2018 |
| My English professional self lost in translation with an Italian client | Murmurations, 2018,
vol 1(2) |
| The FUN Multi-group Family therapy project | Context February 2019 |
| Being systemic as a way of life: reflections on a trip to China
http://murmurations.cloud/ojs/index.php/murmurations/issue/view/2 |
Murmurations, 2019,
vol 2(1) |
I have also presented at national and international conferences on a variety of topics as follows:
| Conference | Title of presentation | Place
Month/Year |
| International Conference on Bridging the gap between Science and Art | From biological systems to human systems: art as a language to expand therapeutic possibilities. | Sirolo (Ancona) Italy
May 2014 |
| International conference on Social Services in Europe | A systemic analysis of key dominant discourses about change and the impact of restructuring processes on power relations in a statutory child protection agency in UK | Bratislava, November 2014 |
| SEPAN (South East Post Adoption Network) Conference on Adoption disruption | The NVR approach to child to parent violence and a pilot project with adoptive families in East Sussex | London, November 2014 |
| First National conference on NVR (Non-violent Resistance) Approach | Successes, Failures and unexpected outcomes: a case study on NVR with an adoptive family | London, November 2014 |
| Association of Family Therapy National conference | Workshop on being a political activist | Canterbury, September 2015 |
| Association of Family Therapy National conference | Workshop on “Kiting in the park: working creatively with adoptive families” | Dunblane Scotland, September 2017 |
| European Association of Family Therapy International conference | Workshop 1: Taking therapy outdoor: a pilot project
Workshop 2: Working in people’s homes: the reversed ethics of hospitality |
Naples,Italy September 2019 |
My publications
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