Cheryl White is the founder of Dulwich Centre Publications where she works as publisher, editor, training co-ordinator, conference host and  initiator of projects. She is also and the Co-Director of Dulwich Centre with her ex-partner Michael White. Cheryl is the co-editor of various books, including: Introducing Narrative Therapy: A collection of practice-based writings.  More information about the work of Dulwich Centre Publications can be found in the book: A Community of Ideas: Behind the scenes by Cheryl White & David Denborough. Cheryl is particularly interested in finding ways to support the work of practitioners in difficult and challenging contexts. She has recently launched the Dulwich Centre Institute of Community Practice which is dedicated to the development of community approaches and narrative forms of psychosocial support.

Michael White is one of the founders of what has come to be known as narrative therapy and community work. Along with David Epston, he co-authored the book ‘Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends’ which inspired the development of a specific field of therapeutic enquiry. With Cheryl White, Michael is a Co-Director of Dulwich Centre where he has offered intensive training workshops for health professionals over the past two decades. Michael maintains an active counselling practice and continues to experience the joy of being with people in narrative conversations that consist of journeys to destinations that could not have been predicted at their outset.

David Denborough works as a writer/editor for Dulwich Centre Publications and community practitioner and singer-song writer for the Dulwich Centre Institute of Community Practice. He is the editor of five books: Beyond the Prison: Gathering dreams of freedom, Family therapy: exploring the field's past, present and possible futures, Queer Counselling and Narrative Practice, A Community of Ideas: Behind the scenes, and Trauma: Narrative responses to traumatic experience. His writing about work with young men in relation to issues of violence has been published here in Australia and in the USA and he has offered keynote addresses at a range of conferences. David’s songs in response to current social issues have received airplay throughout Australia and Canada. David is currently particularly interested in assisting workers in challenging contexts to develop their own forms of narrative psychosocial support and community work.

Carolyn Markey has considerable experience and great interest in counselling children, young people and their families or caregivers in relation to a broad range of problems that are affecting their lives. Carolyn has particular experience in the areas of family separation, effects of violence and abuse, school-related difficulties and working with people affected by concerns about anxiety or depression. Carolyn also enjoys using narrative ideas in group settings where people come together to talk about about similar issues they are facing. These have included groups in which people wish to talk about sole parenting, living with the effects of violence and abuse, or groups of men wanting to take responsibility for abusive actions. Carolyn also has considerable experience supervising other practitioners in narrative therapy. Alongside of her counselling practice, Carolyn currently works within the Teaching  Partnership at Dulwich Centre which has involved teaching narrative therapy workshops in Adelaide, throughout Australia and in Hong Kong.

Shona Russell is an experienced counsellor who has worked in a range of therapeutic services with individuals, their friends, partners or families in response to a broad range of difficulties and concerns. A focus of her work is with the effects of experiences of abuse and other forms of traumas. Shona enjoys and has leaned a lot from her ongoing work with Indigenous Australians and their communities. Alongside her  counselling work, for the past few years Shona has been a key member of the Dulwich Centre Teaching Faculty which has involved offering workshops in Australia and overseas. Shona is actively involved in supervising practitioners and/or workplaces who are interested in using narrative ideas in their work. If you are interested in knowing more about the sort of counselling work Shona does, you may wish to look at her recent book (compiled with Maggie Carey) entitled, 'Narrative therapy: answers to your questions'. Shona is currently offering counselling at Dulwich Centre.

Sue Mann is a counsellor with experience in working with women around the significant effects of child sexual abuse in their lives. Sue is also interested in supporting others who are working in this area by describing some of the complexities of this work within her writing. She enjoys supervision conversations with those working with women and men around the effects of abuse and has also been active in teaching around these concerns. Through her ongoing connections with the Dulwich Centre Teaching Faculty and Narrative Teaching Partnership, Sue has taught narrative practices in a range of contexts within Australia and overseas. She brings to this work many years of experience as a social worker in diverse settings and is currently working in a specialist service for adult women and men who have experienced sexual abuse as children. Examples of Sue’s writings can be found on this website.

Chris Dolman values and enjoys working with individuals, couples, children and families who are responding to a broad range of problems and concerns in their lives and relationships. Chris works both in private practice and for a non-government organisation. In addition to having considerable experience in working with people facing issues of violence and abuse, he has worked with people around family separation, parenting, grief, addictions, mental health concerns and relationship matters.

Angel Yuen lives and works in Canada, where she is a founding member of The Narrative Therapy Centre of Toronto. Angel is currently working in schools and as a private therapist working with children, families and couples. As a school social worker, Angel enjoys working with children and adolescents from diverse populations. She has been particularly interested in conversations of unpacking the effects of oppression while also bringing forth stories of hope. She also is involved in teaching and coordinating narrative therapy workshops throughout Toronto and joined the Dulwich Centre Faculty in 2006 to become a tutor on the Dulwich Centre International Narrative Therapy Training Program.

David Newman lives and works in Sydney where he has a independent counselling practice through Charing Cross Narrative Therapy Centre. Over the last four years David has been offering counselling and organising training workshops in Sydney featuring highly regarded narrative practitioners. David Newman joined the Dulwich Centre Teaching Faculty in 2006 to become a tutor on the Dulwich Centre International Narrative Therapy Training Program.

Sekneh Beckett  lives in Sydney, where she works at the Corner Youth Health Service, and is part of the teaching team at Macquarie University’s Social Health course. Sekneh enjoys working with people from diverse backgrounds and holds a position of curiosity from which to explore and honour people’s creative acts of resistance.

Jane Hales started work in reception at Dulwich Centre on 30th April 1984, and has very much enjoyed her time here being involved with the office work; typesetting and layout of the journals and books: general accounting; workshop and conference organising including travelling to Atlanta and Liverpool for the conferences; database management; managing bookstalls; etc. etc. etc. Currently Jane is working as an assistant to Cheryl White.

Virginia Leake started working at the Dulwich Centre in late 2002, after a few years of travelling through various places in the world. She had numerous jobs before joining the team - mainly in childcare, which has come in useful at different time during her work here! Virginia's current role here at the Dulwich Centre is as Events & Training Manager which involves overseeing the administration of our conferences and training events both locally and overseas.

Richelle Macdonald is one of three new staff to start at Dulwich Centre in September, 2006. After finishing a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English at Flinders University, Richelle did various temping jobs before settling in to a part-time role at Dulwich Centre. Working one day per week on Reception and two days as David Denborough's assistant, Richelle is greatly enjoying her new roles, whilst still being able to undertake her Proofreading and Editing Course.

Brigette Westley also started working at Dulwich Centre in September, 2006, after many years of traveling, working as a nanny, and recently returning home from Kings Canyon. Brigette works full-time at Dulwich Centre as the star of Reception and an assistant to Shona Russell.

Karen Beck-Treloar works part-time at the Dulwich Centre as Michael White's assistant and also carries out administration and book-keeping duties. She started working here in September 2006. Karen has experience in Administration, Reception and as a trainer in the IT industry. She enjoys working for an organisation committed to helping individuals, families and communities.