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Current appointments

  • Academic Advisor and Academic Consultant for the Metanoia Institue's Doctorate in Psychotherapy and Doctorate in Public Works programmes.

 

  • Visiting Professor (Gestalt in research and organisations) within the School of Lifelong Development at Middlesex University.

 

  • Fellow of The Roffey Park Institute, contributing to MSc's addressing group facilitation and organisational consultancy and coach senior staff.

 

  • Associate Editor British Gestalt Journal.
Paul Barber
Paul Barber
Born in: Middlewich, Cheshire, Northern England

1970's: I trained in psychiatric nursing at Epsom (St Ebbas & Long Grove Hospitals)and the Henderson Hospital before establishing a Therapeutic Community in acute mental health within Belmont Hospital

1980’s: I applied Humanism and Therapeutic Community Practice to education and the Public sector.  After being recruited to the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) to develop nurse tutors, I joined with the Association of Therapeutic Communities (ATC) and group analysts from the Tavistock and Institute of Group Analysis (IGA) to initiate a programme in Therapeutic Community Practice for medics, social workers and nurses.

1990’s: I applied Humanism, Gestalt and Group Analysis to education, being recruited by the Human Potential Research Group (HPRG) at the University of Surrey to design and co-deliver an MSc in Change Agent Skills and Strategies (CASS).

21st Century : I have acquired an international audience and been propelled into illuminating the potential of Gestalt to resolve conflict and to build communities, through the holistic process of its phenomenological inquiry.