Marie-Anne Chidiac, DPsych, Ashridge/EMCC Accredited Coach, UKCP Accredited Psychotherapist and Supervisor, GPO-EAGT. Co-Founder and Director of Relational Change.

Marie-Anne is an experienced OD practitioner, coach, psychotherapist, trainer and supervisor. She has a background in consulting having worked with board level and senior executives in the public and private sectors and has led major change management programmes internationally. An engineer by training, Marie-Anne enjoys the complexity of working with individuals and teams. Gestalt theory, praxis and research are her passion, challenge and support. She is the author of "Relational Organisational Gestalt: An Emergent Approach to Organisational Development". To read an interview with Marie-Anne about her new book, please follow the link to the March 2018 Relational Change Newsletter.

You can contact her at mac@relationalchange.org or on +44 (0)20 8398 9384

Sally Denham-Vaughan DPsych, Chartered Coaching Psychologist, BPS, Supervisor, GPO-EAGT. Co-Founder and Director of Relational Change.

Sally works as an Organisational Consultant, Accredited Coach/Coach Supervisor, Trainer and Facilitator with Public, Private, Academic and not-for-profit organisations in the UK and Internationally. She has a background in Clinical Psychology and Gestalt Psychotherapy with over 25 years’ experience in senior leadership positions in the NHS in the UK. She is an Associate with the Taos Institute and was chair of the committee for Gestalt Practitioners in Organisations, (GPO), within the European Association for Gestalt Therapy. Sally's work is grounded in a passion for ecology and co-emergence. Read more about Sally in the September 2018 Newsletter.

You can contact her at sdv@relationalchange.org

Kate Glenholmes BSc.(Hons), RMN, Gestalt Practitioner in Organisations, EAGT.

Kate Glenholmes has over 25 year experience in healthcare settings, both operationally and strategically, having worked in variety of roles as a senior leader in the NHS. She started her gestalt career over 30 years ago and has trained in psychotherapy, coaching and organisational consulting. Kate currently works independently offering a range of OD/coaching services and has a particular interest in bringing a relational OD approach to complex and challenging systems.

Working with Relational Change gives me the opportunity to express my commitment to a relational way of working and the positive impact this can have for organisations and individuals.

Lynda Osborne, DPsych, UKCP Registered Psychotherapist.

Lynda has been involved in counselling and psychotherapy for 30 years. After thirteen years in post she retired as Head of the Gestalt Department at the Metanoia Institute in London in 2012. Her doctorate addressed the senior management role in a psychotherapy training context. Lynda was the founding Chair of the UKAGP: the United Kingdom's National Gestalt Organization. She is a Teaching and Supervising Member of the Gestalt Psychotherapy Training Institute and was for many years a member of the UKCP HIPC Training Standards Committee. Lynda travels internationally training therapists, attending and presenting at conferences, visiting her family and enjoying new countries. Read more about Lynda in the June 2016 Newsletter

Lynda's interest in Relational Change is because, in her experience, the way we create/adapt to change is fundamental and relationships are at the heart of that process!

Miriam Taylor, MSc., UKCP Registered Psychotherapist.

Miriam Taylor is a British Gestalt psychotherapist (UKCP registered), supervisor and international trainer who has been in private practice since 1995. Her background was in adult education before training as a counsellor and psychotherapist. She was clinical lead of a young peoples' service and for several years worked in a specialist trauma service. Miriam's particular interest is in the integration of trauma and the role of the body from a relational field perspective. She teaches in the UK and internationally, has been a trainer, Academic Consultant and examiner for Metanoia Institute, London, and is on the Leadership Team of Relational Change. Publications include "Trauma Therapy and Clinical Practice: Neuroscience, Gestalt and the Body" and several peer reviewed and invited articles. Read more about Miriam's work in the October 2016 Newsletter

Why Relational Change? Because I believe fundamentally that meaningful change happens from the bottom up. I have been drawn to the grass roots throughout my career - with individuals, in groups and in organisations. The skills we have as therapists are too valuable to be limited to those who can pay; I strive to make them more accessible to those who need them.

Jim Denham-Vaughan, MSc.

Jim’s background is as a Biomedical Scientist and Senior Manager in the British National Health Service. He has worked with various ICT, information and quality systems and has extensive experience of data quality monitoring and audit. Jim has tended the Relational Change website since set-up.

Relationship and context are vital to a holistic worldview. For me this means celebrating complexity and diversity; valuing each individual as unique, yet set within a wider world.

Mike Clark, PhD, Research Manager, NIHR School for Social Care Research at the London School of Economics.

Michael’s experience spans academia and health and social care.  He has worked at local, regional and national levels seeking to build stronger ties between research, policy and practice for them to better inform each other.  He states that sometimes this can feel like being sandwiched between different worlds, but always the way to make progress is through good relationships with people which brings their different knowledge and perspectives to a much more informative whole.

It is this primary interest in relationships that underpins his interest in working with Relational Change

Researcher in Residence

Helena Kallner, MA (Public Health and Ethnology), MSc (Gestalt Psychotherapy), UKCP Registered Psychotherapist.

Helena practices Gestalt psychotherapy in Stockholm and is a senior teacher and supervisor of Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy™, presenting workshops and trainings internationally. She is presently a doctoral student at Metanoia Institute/Middlesex University, researching psychotherapists’ use of movement and Kinesthetic Resonance. Helena works closely with Ekskäret Foundation (Sweden). Read more about Helena in the April 2017 Newsletter

I am involved with Relational Change simply because I believe that compassion and our ability to relate and resonate with each other is essential for our survival, and necessary in order to create a sustainable future.