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.:. Associate Professor Bernie Neville - President

Bernie Neville is Associate Professor of Education at La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia. He originally trained as a primary teacher, but most of his school teaching career was spent in secondary schools in Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne as a teacher of English, LOTE and Drama.

He holds an MA in Classics from Adelaide University and a PhD in Education from La Trobe, Cert lV Assessment and Workplace Training.

Dr Neville has been involved in the pre-service and in service education of teachers since 1972. For several years he was chair of the Faculty Diploma in Education Committee and convenor of an experimental Diploma in Education program He has researched and written extensively on the interpersonal aspects of teaching and learning and the application of counselling theory to the teaching-learning process. His particular interests in the area of classroom processes are reflected in the title of his book: Educating Psyche: Emotion, Imagination and the Unconscious in Learning. He has recently completed a book: Olympus Inc: Intervening for Cultural Change in Organisations, which applies archetypal theory to the study of culture and cultural change in organisations.

.:. Alistair Campbell - Membership Secretary

Alistair was part of the initial intake to the Diploma of Holistic Counselling Practice in 2002, and came to counselling via a major midlife crisis after an established career as an ecological scientist and manager within the Victorian government bureaucracy.
He is also a qualified breathworker, trained in the Sondra Ray 'connected breathing' style of breathwork. Since graduation, Alistair's interests and professional development have been along a trajectory that increasingly incorporates meridian-based 'energy psychology' methods.

With his experience of policy and process development in the public not-for-profit sector, Alistair has a keen interest in the AAHTC's strategic development.

.:. Sharon Kellett - Convenor, Professional Development Committee

Sharon is a Registered nurse with more than 25 years experience accumulated across most clinical settings within the regional Australian health care context. She has 3 teenage children and yes can speak their language fluently. Her interests include breathing easy, tai chi, chi quong, pottery & soul, spirit & psyche.

Sharon is currently employed part-time in the provision of palliative care. In her former role as a Director of Nursing in Aged Care, she was involved in the co-ordination, implementation and provision of national aged care in accordance with a changing and increasingly stringent legislative requirement and associated accreditation standards. This has provided Sharon with grounded experience and appreciation of quality system management, practitioner competency standards, financial management, work place safety legislative requirements, and ongoing professional improvement across a broad spectrum of skill based service providers both professional and non professional. Past executive involvement in committees overseeing medical and medication service provision has added to experiential appreciation of effective organisation operational requirements.

Having recently graduated in Holistic Counselling Practice, Sharon is now in the process of building a part-time private practice on the Peninsula.

.:. Sjaany Stoove

Sjaany has joined the Committee to play an active role in community building and information sharing with fellow students and seekers. She is looking forward to meeting you all as she continues Holistic Counselling, Transpersonal Art Therapy, and Professional Development, with the Phoenix and AAHTC communities in 2009.

Consciousness movements throughout world history fascinate Sjaan, and for many years now she has been intrigued with the unique calling that counsellors have in disenchanted secular societies.

She understands that holistic and psychospiritual perspectives aim to bring back to every day experience the integral foundation of deep meaning which comes with being connected to the source of life - while the client centred approach seeks to restore integrity, power and growth by nurturing the individual spirit.

For Sjaany, counselling is about participating in relationships with self, others, community, knowledge, wisdom, nature, the numinous, and the cosmos, and discovering how to witness and honour psyche in a way that chimes and resonates.

Sjaany studied her B.A. in Arts, Communications and Critical Enquiry at La Trobe Uni, where she researched a wide range of subjects and theoretical perspectives, including Jungian Cultural Psychology, World Literatures, Identity Studies, and Semiotics. She continues to read widely, and loves sharing ideas and experiences with others.

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