1. Seminars/Workshops
Partial list of team trainings and workshops conducted 1985-2007
• Solution-Focused Approaches to Suicide. Lifeline, Melb, Aus. 1988
• An Analysis of Successes and Failures on a Community Psychiatric Assessment and Treatment
Team. What’s the difference that makes a difference? Melbourne (1989).
• Family Therapy Intervention in the Treatment of Manic Depression. Royal Park Psychiatric
Hospital, Melbourne, Australia (1990).
• Narrative Therapy Approaches in the Treatment of Acute and Chronic Psychiatric Disorders:
"Home or Away" Royal Park Psychiatric Hospital, Melbourne, Australia (1991).
• Narrative Interviewing Style in a Multidisciplinary Setting. Ealing, United Kingdom (1993).
• Career Guidance: International Women’s Day - International School of Sacred Heart, Tokyo,
Japan (1998).
• The Art of Coping: Cultural Adaptation - JET Program Orientation, Tokyo, Japan (1999).
• Alchemical Psychotherapy Workshop - Counseling the International Community in Asia,
Bangkok, Thailand (2000).
• Cross–Cultural Couples Counseling Presentation - with Jim McRae PhD International Mental
Health Professionals Japan -5th annual conference Tokyo, Japan (2001).
• "Fellowship Gathering" - Post September 11th. Traumatic Incident Debriefing - Tokyo
American Club, Tokyo, Japan with Jonna Douglass PhD, Sep. (2001). www.icisf.org
• Alchemical Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy Workshop - Japanese Association of
Hypnotherapy (2002).
• Alchemical Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy Workshop - Brief Therapy Conference Orlando,
USA (2002).
• Depression in Japan Glaxo-Kline seminar Tokyo, (2003).
• The Competent Child - Nishimachi School Tokyo (2003).
. Understanding Emotional Intelligence- J.P. Morgan (2006)
At US Naval Base Yokosuka 2004-07
Dealing with resistance- Aikido principles and Motivational Interviewing
Existential Group Psychotherapy –Basic Principles, Yalom
Diagnosis and Criteria for Dependence- Natural History of Alcoholism Shuckitt, Under
the Influence
Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

2. Dealing with Resistance revisited.
Treatment Planning/ Model of Interventions
Motivational Interviewing
Dealing with the Mandated Client/Stages of Change
Dependence and Tolerance revisited.
Orientation to Treatment. Effective Group Therapy -Yalom
Solution Focused Intervention
Self Disclosure/Group Leadership
Co Therapy/ Externalizing the Problem
Interventions- future self, miracle question, interviewing the problem/positive
function/Therapist’s attitude.
Crisis Intervention
Personal Growth/Development
Modeling –Identity; Subgrouping; Spirituality
Treatment Planning
Case Management
Byron Bay.
2009
Three Part Certificate in Narrative Therapy and Community Work.
Module 1 Introduction, Externalization, Deconstruction and re- Authoring
Module 2 Definitional Ceremony and Outsider Witnessing, Re- Remembering
Module 3 Narrative Documents
Held at Indigenous Rehabilitation Center Namitjira.
2010
Dealing with the Resistant Client with Dr B Honey.
Medicare and the Acute and Chronic Client
2011
Client’s Theory of Change. Dealing with the Mandated Client with Lisa Jones.
Group Process, Group Norm Setting with Lisa Jones
2014
The Ericksonian Therapist and Orientation Towards Change.
Groups
Groups ran in Australia, England and Asia since 1985
Parenting Skills, Assertion Skills, Social Skills, Solution Focused Approaches to
Depression, Women’s Group, Eating Disorders, Anxiety and Psychoeducational groups
for people with Psychiatric Disorders and their Families.

3. Assisted in many personal development groups eg. Primal Feelings, Codependency in
personal development center in India.
Conferences Organized as Vice President of IMHPJ in Japan.
"West Meets East", Saitama, Tokyo, May 23-24, 1998.
" A Different Lens: Perspectives on Therapy in Asia", Kyoto April 2nd, 3rd and 4th 1999
- a joint conference held with the 6th Counseling the International Community in Asia
(CICA) Conference.
" Many Cultures Many Minds", Saitama, Tokyo. May 20th-21st, 2000