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Masha Bennett - Trainer, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique)Masha Bennett's career has spanned a range of fields - she used to be a zoologist, a botanist and a gardener, until she discovered that she loved working with people.Between 1999 and 2006 years Masha was employed within the criminal justice system, in both the National Probation Service and HM Prison Service, including the time when she managed a drug rehabilitation programme in Styal Prison. From 2006 Masha was responsible for setting up and developing the innovative Well Being Centre in Stockport, where she currently works as centre manager. Masha also runs a private psychotherapy practice, and is an international trainer and practitioner of EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), a mind-body therapy and a self-help tool based on combination of acupressure and psychology. She runs EFT workshops for organisations and the general public in England, Russia, Lithuania and other countries. More information about Mashas work can be found on her website www.practicalhappiness.co.uk. The way Masha strives to live and work is reflected in the quote from E. B. White: I wake up every morning, determined to both change the world, and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes it makes planning the day difficult.
Sylvia May Forrest - Trainer, THRIVE, Recovery Approaches to Mental Health, ThriversSylvia May Forrest trained in Youth and Community work at Manchester Metropolitan University and worked with women and children who experienced domestic abuse. She worked on MASH HIV Prevention Street Project, and more recently has worked in the mental health arena for seven years promoting Recovery Approaches and Wellbeing. In 2008 she attended the THRIVE Facilitators Course and has since been training in the THRIVE Approach to Wellness. She has helped to set up a number of Thrivers Courses for Service Users in the North of England supporting people to discover strategies for recovery and thriving.
Paula Pettit - Trainer, Abuse & Trauma Issues, Domestic Violence, Cultural CompetenciesPaula has worked in mental health for twelve years in a variety of roles. She was appointed co-ordinator of a mental health recovery project, Krysalis in Coventry and spent several years developing the project which involved supporting individuals on their path to achieving their recovery using an holistic approach. Paula then moved to South Wales and worked with the organisation Keepwell training in mental health awareness around the UK and in America. At the same time she was also involved in a voluntary capacity in a community project in Newport, South Wales feeding the homeless and supporting their various needs.Paula was then employed as Black and Ethnic Minority development officer based in Newport. Part of her role was to identify isolated ethnic minority groups within the local area in need of support to establish their own voluntary organisations addressing their cultural needs.Currently Paula is working closely with women and men involved in prostitution and with women who are suspected of being trafficked into the U.K within the area of Newport. Through liaising closely with the local Police, health authority and voluntary organisations to help meet the needs of this client group who may have substance misuse issues, Paula is able to ensure that their mental health needs are met. The overall aim of the project is to offer individuals an exit strategy out of the commercial sex trade into legitimate employment and this is proving successful. Paula trains in a number of mental health subjects relating to violence and abuse issues and works on a consultancy basis with organisations wishing to develop awareness of prostitution and trafficking.
Rowland Urey - Human Rights & Dignity in Mental HealthRowland has been a campaigner, mental health activist and proponent of Recovery for twenty years. He was Chair of Oldham Open User Forum in Oldham, England for 10 years. He is currently on the management team for CLEO (Community Lived Experience Organisation) In 2003 he won a national award for his work in helping people, and in recent years produced the first ever guidelines for NICE on Obsessive Compulsive Disorders. He also produced User Led Standards for Northwest Regional mental health taskforce. He currently works with EleMental and crazydiamond to change people’s assumptions and prejudices and society’s perceptions of mental distress.
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