Stephen Bray lives on a Mediterranean beach with a gorgeous woman, an Amazon child, and a daft dog. He is the author of Photography and Psychoanalysis: The Development of Emotional Persuasion in Image Making, and when not creating photographic images, is working on a book about Zen.  He has contributed a book review on Stillness in a Mobile World.  More details are available at http://stephenbray.me 

Ruth Carneson lives in Muizenberg on the False Bay side of Cape Town, South Africa. During the apartheid regime, for 24 years from the age of 14, she lived in exile in Britain where she obtained a BA Honours in Visual Arts.  She exhibited extensively in Britain as well as producing cards, calendars and posters of her work, and also worked as a visiting artist in schools where she used art as means of exploring human rights issues.  Her recent South African exhibition Back on Track, described in this issue, marked her return to a career in art.  She has also kindly agreed to advise us on art.
 

Mark Edwards lives in Exeter and works as a Primary Mental Health Worker in South Devon.  He has a developing interest in working systemically and the focus of his work is with children and families.  He runs a successful course for parents on Managing Challenging Behaviour.   He has contributed the reviews of Exploiting Childhood and Mindful Therapeutic Care for Children

Wayne Froggatt, is a graduate of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.  He has been in practice as a  social worker for over 30 years.  His current professional  activities involve psychotherapy, supervision, training, stress management, organisational consulting and writing.  His contribution is the article "People Rating" in the Therapy section.

Terry Goodwin, was a senior marketing executive at Finexport Ltd in London and Bangkok until his retirement in 1992, since when he has been in private practice as a marketing consultant.  Terry has been the persona of our business editor since the inception of Nurturing Potential.  Terry has contributed a book review of No One's World.

Edit Kovacs comes from Hungary where she used to run an international service desk and is currently a business consultant specializing in Service Management based in England..

She has a Master’s degree (MA) in Sociology,  is also experienced in Management of Change and is currently studying for a Psychology BSc in the Open University. Edit has contributed book reviews on Cosmopolitanism and Management Research.

Sabine Kurjo McNeill studied mathematics and programming in West Germany and had her first job as a systems analyst and software diagnostician at CERN, the European Centre for Nuclear Research in Geneva.  Her poem Only Connect (in our verse section) was written in 1984.  In 1988 she published her book Only Connect, thus anticipating the social networking "revolution" by many years.  Her website is http://www.sabinemcneill.co.uk/  and she can also be found on several social media sites, including the professionals' LinkedIn.  She has contributed an article on networking in our Main Theme section and a poem in the Verse section.

Michael Mallows is an Honorary Fellow within the Association for Professional Hypnosis and Psychotherapy.  He developed the Crafty Listening approach to developing Emotional Intelligence.  He coaches individuals and trains teams and groups in the voluntary, public and private sectors.  Michael is the author of The Power to Use NLP and co-author of Peace of Mind is a Piece of Cake .has contributed book reviews on Cyberbullying and E-Safety, and Can I Tell You About Adoption?  His website can be found at www.craftylistening.co.uk

Sep Meyer is a graduate of the London School of Economics and, since his retirement from a commercial life, has been devoting his time to writing poetry, magazine articles, book reviews and drama.  His contributions to these pages isusually in the area of politics and current affairs. He has contributed a book review 50 Great Myths About Atheism in this issue.

Joe Sinclair is Managing Editor of Nurturing Potential and was involved in its creation.  Writer (nine published books to his name), Publisher (seven titles) and prolific contributor of articles and book reviews (several in this issue) his full (ish) biography can be found on his website www.conts.com 

Elizabeth Winder has worked in mental health in the UK for several years, earlier managing a mental health advocacy service in Oxfordshire, England.  She worked on the European project Value , led by the European Patients’ Forum, and wrote the Value Toolkit for Patient Organisations on Meaningful patient Involvement – Patients Adding Value to Policy, Projects, and Services, with the input of patients and their organisations from around Europe. She is currently advising on a project to support Romanian mental health service users to set up advocacy services.  She has contributed a book review. (Improving Mental Health Care)

Steve Talbott stevet@natureinstitute.org is the editor of NetFuture an electronic newsletter where this Education article originally appeared.  The url for the newsletter is  http://www.netfuture.org/inx_topical_all.html.