Ravaani D K Ghaemmaghamy

PO Box 12338, Hamilton 2001

+64 27 493 4963

My interests include disability, health and diabetes, which I have been living with for 30 years. I am interested in the language of management and control, discourses relating to being ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and in the relationships surrounding people living with diabetes. I am undertaking some social research and group work as well as private practice. I would love to connect with others who share these interests.

Bruce Robinson

Wairarapa Community Counselling Centre, P.O. Box 883 Masterton, New Zealand

 64-6-3775716

I live and work as part of a team in a rural community in Wairarapa. I meet with individuals, couples, families, teams and organisations experiencing a wide range of problems, as well as training and supervision in Wellingtonand Wairarapa. My main areas of interest are: working with families and mental health issues – especially in contexts where “professional privilege” and knowledge have taken precedence over the knowledge and concerns of the person experiencing the problem. 

Jan Rodwell

P.O.Box 46-247, Herne Bay Auckland New Zealand

 (09) 3608419  Fax: (09) 3608539

I have practised as a family therapist for 20 years, having trained primarily with David Epston. My work context was as a family therapist and clinical supervisor in social service organisations before going into private practice a year ago. I have a special interest in working with families in the process of change. This includes work with separation, one parent and repartnered (step) families. I wrote “Repartnered Families – creating new ways of living together beyond the nuclear family”  (Penguin 2002) for parents in these families, as there are few resources in Aotearoa/New Zealand and these do not have an emphasis on re-examining  ideas about family. I also run training workshops for people who work with repartnered families around Aotearoa/N.Z, provide supervision for other therapists and social workers, and some training in narrative work. The values that underpin narrative thinking fit with my experience, Quaker background, feminism and my ongoing commitment to social justice. I live in an extended repartnered family.  Recently I became the Aotearoa/N.Z distributor of Dulwich Publications.

 +64-4-4722-331

I have been interested in narrative practice for a number of years. I worked with the Just Therapy team in New Zealand and now work for a workplace wellness provider applying narrative practice ideas to people's experiences in the workplace. We provide employee assistance programmes, counselling, onsite workplace support, trauma response, training, facilitation, conflict resolution, workplace policy development and various other services to workplaces throughout New Zealand.

Child Youth and Family Services, PO Box 1047, NELSON

 0064 (0)39894006

I have recently returned to New Zealand after working in the area of child protection in the UK since 1988. During the last 5 years I managed The Junction a service for children and young people with sexually harmful behaviour. We established narrative ideas as a foundation for our practice at The Junction. I am keen to retain these approaches in my new role in the statutory sector in New Zealand working with children in care.

 092985478  0210624212