New Associates:

Relational Change warmly welcomes our three new associates.

Vienna Duff, UKCP Registered Psychotherapist, GPTI.

Vienna is a psychotherapist and an associate lecturer/mentor with the Open University. She has been an educator for nearly 30 years and a Gestalt practitioner for 12. Her decision to leave full-time teaching 15 years ago led to a period of working for Women's Aid and studying Art and Design before choosing to train as a Gestalt psychotherapist. Currently a therapist and supervisor in an NHS Service, she also has a small private practice, gives support to two grass-roots, voluntary organisations who organise aid and support in response to the current refugee crisis in Europe and volunteers in a specialist sexual abuse centre. She participates in an RC Community of Practice and the Marianne Fry Lecture Organising Group. Her personal reflections on "The Trauma of War across Generations" was published by the British Gestalt Journal, 2014.

Why Relational Change? Because I believe that growth and sustainable change are rooted in values and principles that support collaborative, nourishing relationships within co-created enabling fields.

Mark Fairfield, LCSW, BCD, Founder of "The Relational Center", Los Angeles, CA

Mark is an internationally recognized Gestalt trainer, author and organizer, with significant experience in organizational consulting, leadership coaching and clinical social work. After completing his graduate studies in social welfare at Columbia University in the 1990s, he occupied various leadership positions in the AIDS movement and the field of public mental health. He founded The Relational Center, a grassroots nonprofit in Los Angeles with strong ties to Relational Change. There he served as Executive Director for over 10 years. Today Mark works with executive boards and management teams of change-making institutions, offering leadership development and support for culture shift and social transformation.

Why I want to join Relational Change? I am convinced that we must rescue our ability to depend on each other.... to ensure our own sustainability and the health of our world. Relational Change is defending the value of relationships in a world that increasingly ignores them. I feel called to come alongside and share responsibility.

Maggie Marriott, Gestalt Practitioner in Organisations, EAGT.

Maggie is a coach, supervisor, trainer and organisational change consultant who has worked extensively in business and IT but is now moving increasingly towards eco-centric rather than an ego-centric practice; connecting people, business, choice and change back to the world. With broad interests and vast reading Maggie is constantly changing and evolving her work and approach - championing gentle, respectful and inclusive behaviours and coaching the need to reconnect with our vitality and the world outside the office walls. She is a graduate of the Relational Organisational Change Programme and is registered as a Gestalt Practitioner in Organisations in the EAGT.

Why Relational Change? Because the Relational Change approach honours and acts upon the wonderful complexity and interplay of people, organisations, society and the environment.

Nicky Burton, Gestalt Practitioner in Organisations, EAGT.

Nicky has an extensive and international background working in the private, public and third sectors and with family businesses. Nicky works with individuals and teams to facilitate improved relationships and results and to develop potential.  Along with a successful corporate career in organisation and talent development, strategy and marketing in well-known global technology and financial services companies, Nicky trained as a yoga teacher and as a gestalt psychotherapist.  As an organisation consultant and coach, Nicky integrates these perspectives along with action enquiry and action learning to work relationally with people across organisations.

Why Relational Change? I work with people and organisations, connecting with their hopes and concerns and creating energy, commitment and relationships that enable change.

Martin Capps, UKCP Registered Psychotherapist, GPTI.

Martin is a gestalt psychotherapist and supervisor with over 17 years of experience in the private, NHS and third sectors as a counsellor, psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer. He has a specialist interest and expertise working with individuals and groups with addictive issues. He is currently focussing more on relational and community approaches and processes. Read more about Martin in the November 2017 Newsletter

I am attracted to working with Relational Change because of the shared belief and passion that relationship is at the heart of all human interaction.

Frans Meulmeester, Gestalt Practitioner in Organisations, EAGT.

Since 1973 Frans has worked as a teacher, trainer and consultant. First in education, but later in Healthcare and the care for the elderly. In 1989 he started his own centre for training, consultancy and therapy, called Invitation and from this time he also worked as a psychotherapist. He frequently works internationally in The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain, Portugal, Norway, Russia, Greece, Bulgaria, Nepal and the Czech Republic. Frans is a full member of the European Association for Gestalt therapy and the European Association for Psychotherapy and registered as a Gestalt Practitioner in Organizations in the EAGT.

The base for all my activities is a combination of interest in other people, enthusiasm for the gestalt-approach and the experiences in organizations in healthcare and education. If people ask me, what my topics are as a trainer or consultant, my answer is: all my activities are focused on the relational aspects of organizations. And that is why I am interested in Relational Change!!

Lynda Osborne D Psych, 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 Kingdoms National Gestalt Organization. She is a Teaching and Supervising Member of the Gestalt Psychotherapy Training Institute and 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!

Leanne O'Shea, DPsych.

Leanne is a psychotherapist, educator and supervisor in private practice in Melbourne, Australia. She is a senior faculty Member of Gestalt Therapy Australia and teaches internationally. Her particular interests include sexuality within the therapeutic context and the importance of an erotic sensibility in sustaining relationality and "field activism" - an embodiment of field theory that supports growing social and relational responsibility. Leanne is passionate about supporting Gestalt practitioners to write. She is well published and is an inaugural co-editor of the Gestalt Journal of Australia and New Zealand. She is an international faculty associate at Pacific Gestalt Institute, and a member of the International Advisory Board of The Relational Center in Los Angeles. Read more about Leanne in the July 2017 Newsletter

My interest in working with Relational Change is grounded in both my relationships with those already involved, and what is their clear commitment to a set of values that uphold relationality, complexity and a desire for change that honours connection, respect and sustainability.

Miriam Taylor, MSc., UKCP Registered Psychotherapist.

Miriam Taylor is a Gestalt psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer with many years experience. Her background was in community-based adult education before training as a counsellor and psychotherapist. She is a specialist therapist in a trauma service and works in private practice. She teaches on a freelance basis and has taught in the Gestalt department at Metanoia Institute. Miriam's book "Trauma Therapy and Clinical Practice: Neuroscience, Gestalt and the Body" was published by Open University Press in March 2014. 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.