Who? Where? What? “Old ones, new ones, loved
ones, neglected ones” was the way pianist Semprini introduced his
regular, and very popular, radio programmes devoted to light, popular music
in the days before most of our readers were born. A fitting preamble you may think to
this relaunched version of Nurturing Potential. So here, in alphabetical order, we present biographical, geographical and professional information about contributors: past and present, departed and returned, with the occasional digression to avoid neglecting anyone.
STEPHEN BRAY Stephen is currently writing a series of three
books on the relationship between photography and other disciplines. The
first, 'Photography and Psychoanalysis' is due to be published in May 2013,
with 'Photography and Zen Buddhism' following later this year. 'Photography
and Kabbalah' is scheduled for 2014. IREM
BRAY
Irem Bray holds a MSc in Family Therapy from http://irembray.com/journal_eng/about_irem_bray_psychologist_family_therapist/ MARK EDWARDS I am currently
working as a Primary Mental Health Worker in South Devon and living very
happily in SYLVIA FARLEY I have been a sufferer from Multiple Sclerosis
since I was 14 years old, but have lived and worked from the Arctic to the
Equator, originally as a horticulturist, (UEI, CDH, RHS) raised a family, had
4 husbands, 3 children including an autistic son, a near-death experience,
seen ghosts, met con-men, been deserted, told fortunes, sung in clubs and
appeared on Radio and TV, written prize-winning books and poetry, sailed
thousands of miles fund-raising, learned several languages including French,
Swedish, Finnish and Chichewa, obtained a BA Hons in Psychology and an MSc in
Social Science Research and maintained a free self-esteem counselling web
site - now defunct. My MSc dissertation was
on alternative sexuality, an ethnography researched as a participant-observer
for 10 years in my 50s-60s. At almost 70 years old,
I have now moved to I derived a great deal
of pleasure contributing to the original Nurturing Potential, not only
articles on health-related issues, but book reviews and, even, I seem to
recall, some verse. I regard the New
Nurturing Potential as a wonderful opportunity to bring my new-found Spanish
experiences to bear in other areas and am delighted to be associated with the
magazine in the position of Editor – Ecology and the Environment. JULIE HAY I am now a Visiting Professor at Middlesex
University, Academic Dean of an MSc, a forensic psychotherapist launching a
new non-profit business targeted at violent offenders in prison, I project
manage a growing initiative to teach TA to kids and parents worldwide, etc.,
etc. MICHAEL MALLOWS Having cooperated with Joe Sinclair in publishing
the Nurturing Potential magazine and subsequent e-zine in 2002 and serving as
Assistant Editor for its several years of active existence, Michael has
agreed to take on the same role in the new version of this highly respected
journal. He shares with
Managing Editor Joe Sinclair a background that encompasses NLP, TA, Groupwork
and Co-counselling, but has gone much further in embracing such models as
EFT, the Enneagram, Hypnotherapy, Clean Language and Reversal Theory. His main
activity in recent times has been the development of his concept of Crafty
Listening [Crafty: Curious
Responsive Assertive Focused Thoughtful Yes! ] Michael is an
Honorary Fellow of The Association for Professional Hypnosis and
Psychotherapy. He is an inspirational speaker, trainer, mediator, counsellor,
life coach and supervisor, working with individuals, couples, families,
teams, managers, teachers, in the private, voluntary and not for profit
sectors! Michael is
also an expert on Adoption and Fostering, consulting to social services,
designing workshops and seminars for Social Workers, adoption panels,
adoptive parents and foster carers. He is proud to have been professionally
involved with The Post Adoption Centre in He is
currently working with WAC Arts (formerly Interchange Training) and Mosaic
training mentors to work with Primary school pupils, Secondary school
students, and prisoners prior to and following their release from prison. His
new website is www.craftylistening.co.uk JOHN
ROWAN I have been doing a number of workshops around the
transpersonal, some
transpersonal chapters and articles, and a number of book reviews which have
appeared in the magazine of the ACPNL. JOSEPH SINCLAIR
Throughout my life, were I to be asked
how I am, I would invariably reply “Fine”. And, in fact, I probably believed that
I enjoyed rude good health. Now,
thinking back, I’m quite amazed at how many illnesses I’ve
suffered. But
no period of ill health has been as prolonged or as distressing as that which
prompted the suspension of the original version of Nurturing Potential, nor
that which inhibited its (and my own) recovery. The initial problem was a bout of
Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) that
persisted for more than two years.
Then – a brief hiatus – before a mini-stroke, followed
some months later by a severe chest infection. Now
I no longer believe myself to enjoy rude, or even robust, good health. I prefer to think of it as
resilient. And certainly good
enough, and I feel energetic enough, to tackle this relaunch of Nurturing
Potential. I
am delighted that so many of my previous associates have rallied round and
are lending their support to the new venture. Between the PMR and the mini-stroke I
had recovered sufficiently to produce and publish a miscellany of my writings
(many of them previously unpublished) under the title Did I Really Say That?
Copies are still available should any reader wish to order one At £5 exclusive of postage, they
are inexpensive enough, but you can save even that modest sum if you wish to
read the pdf version on line at http://www.conts.com/Reallyfinal(fonts(4.01).pdf. I
have two other books “on the stocks” , one of which is almost
complete, but I have decided to postpone that activity in favour of this
relaunch of Nurturing Potential.
I hope you all approve. LAURA
SZMUCH Laura Szmuch is a
teacher of English as a foreign language and Master Practitioner and Trainer
in NLP. She is a certified coach with NLP and Ontological transformational
Coach. Her dissertation for her Master’s Degree in Cognitive
Psychology and Learning was about Motivation. She has recently published
her second book: “Las seis inspiraciones”. [The
six inspirations] Laura lives in
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