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the centre for gender psychology was founded in 1996 by Helena Løvendal and Nick Duffell. They have both been married before, and this work was created from their own dancing in the dark. Together they facilitate the couples and sexuality workshops. They run the same gender workshops separately, often accompanied by guest facilitators. Both are UK trained
supervisors and psychotherapists, as well
as Sexual Helena has been a social worker both in England and in Denmark, where she was born in 1958. She has travelled widely and has lived in spiritual and political communities. Helena is the president of the Association of Sexual Grounding Therapists and Trainers. Nick was born in 1949, has a degree in Sanskrit. He has been a teacher, care-staff, carpenter, divorce mediator, and a management consultant. He is the author of 'The Making of Them'. Helena and Nick have worked with many couples in crisis. Currently, they train and supervise psychotherapists and couple-counsellors in the UK, Europe, and Scandinavia. Their formative influences have been the Post-Jungians, Object Relations, Psychosynthesis, Systems Theory, Process Work, Kundalini Yoga and Shamanism. They are the authors of the acclaimed Sex Love and the Dangers of Intimacy, Thorsens, 2002. They believe that bridging the gap between men and women may be the greatest contribution to human evolution and world peace. Some participants' comments about our work 'Your work brings clarity to the male/female issue; it should be a requirement before anyone gets a divorce!' M.C. 'I feel like a kid with a new toy and want to put this new awareness into practice. Both have benefited, our relationship has changed positively.' J. 'For the first time in my life I feel like a grown-up man.' P.J. 'Unlike some courses I have done, this was generally relaxed, never boring, nor too confrontative, but very powerful. I have a new feeling of connectedness to women and an acceptance of the differences between us." J.M. 'I feel that I gained as much from the experiences of others as I did from my own experience of being in a couple.' P. 'The most useful thing about this course was its clarity; its originality. It wasn't threatening for people who have done nothing like it before.' M. 'I've gained so much and am blown away by the shift in our relationship.' E. Helena and Nick have co-worked with many couples in crisis, and for several years they taught at the Institute of Psychosynthesis, London. They have been passionately engaged in the experience of gender psychology for many years and have worked with leading teachers in the field. They share the parenting of Nick's two grown-up sons. They have been training-therapists, staff-members, or visiting-trainers at:
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Darrel Hunneybell Darrel is 42 years old and has spent many years working in mental health. A qualified psychotherapist, he runs his own practice and counsels adolescent boys with emotional and behavioural difficulties in Hertfordshire. Darrel has worked with Nick on the Images of Masculinity week in France as well as on the Men, Sex, Power and Spirit and Boarding School Survivors courses. He co-leads the third series of the quarterly men's group, Searching for my Father I find my Self, with Hank. |
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Hank Earl Born in 1955, Hank has a degree in Fine Art and has played bass in numerous bands. Since time immemorial he has been a mental health worker in London’s notorious East End (Hackney, to be precise). Hank has a long term interest in Men's work and is a founder member of the original Searching for my Father I found my Self group. He assists Nick in facilitating the second group. He co-leads the third series of the quarterly men's group, Searching for my Father I find my Self, with Darrel. |
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Liz Bolt I was born in 1940 I am a wife, mother and grandmother. I have an MSc in Education, a PG Dip in Humanistic Psychology and a PGCEA. I worked for many years as a registered nurse mostly in Oncology. A mid-life change led to my working as a lecturer in Education at Surrey University for15 years. I have facilitated personal development workshops including assertiveness, death and dying and journal work. Since 1995 I have worked as a counsellor/psychotherapist in private practice. The older I have become the more passionately I believe that the menopause is an important Rite of Passage. I know it as a change that brings with it the opportunity to explore ways of living a more creative, meaningful and embodied life and I am excited by the prospect of sharing this exploration with other ageing women.
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Geoff Lamb (Academic consultant) Geoff Lamb MSc., BSc.(Hons), Dip Psych., Dip Contextual Couples Counselling, UKCP reg Psychotherapist has been working as a psychotherapist for twenty years and training counsellors for eighteen. He is currently Director of Inter-Psyche, the UK’s only counselling training organisation based within the NHS, and has a wide range of experience in developing, accrediting and validating training programmes. His leisure time is devoted to his musical interests, his Thames river cruiser and his family, although not necessarily in that order!
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