PROCESSWORK SCOTLAND - Key Persons
Andy has a private practice as a registered UKCP psychotherapist, supervisor and training supervisor. Based in Edinburgh he also has a variety of teaching, coaching, project development and design roles. He co-founded Diversity Matters which was active from 2001-2021 and was instrumental in the design and delivery of the HEC in the Person-centred Approach at Queen Margaret University which has won a string of awards, particularly for changing workplace practice and in life-long learning.
One of the latest projects The GO DEEP GAME won an award for Innovation in Global Education through GENE. Andy is passionate about leadership and provides coaching support for leaders in NGO's and the Voluntary Sector, and continues to develop projects focussed on the collective well-being of people, place and planet.
Andy is a faculty member in the schools of Processwork in the UK and in Spain.
Gill Emslie, PhD, Dipl. Process Work, is a process orientated facilitator and coach working with conflict facilitation, psychotherapy and leadership. She also teaches internationally in diverse settings ranging from the NGO and social and environmental justice sector, to business and local government, in Europe, Latin America and SE Asia, facilitating in-depth training programmes and working directly with leadership teams. Gill has also spent several years living and working with indigenous people in remote areas of the Earth and this has awoken in her a particular love for bio-cultural diversity and concern about its current predicament. When she is not travelling Gill lives in the Findhorn Foundation Ecovillage which is an NGO providing training on issues of global concern related to sustainability, environment, peace, shelter and the creation of a sustainable world. Gill is the founder of the Processwork Institute and training in Spain.
Kim is a psychotherapist and trainer in Process Work or Process-oriented psychology with over 15 years experience of working with individuals and groups. She has worked with children for 18 years as a teacher and more recently as a therapist. She have a huge interest in the education system and how the emotional and social relationship between the individual and institutions may promote or deter our learning. She works with mental health issues connected with abuse, trauma and the social oppressions which we keep hidden. As a lesbian woman I run groups on LGBT issues and on transgender lives. She also has alopecia, a condition associated with hair loss, and is bald. She is currently working on raising awareness around this condition and the wider area of how appearances impact our lives. She have a keen interest in eco-psychology, in exploring our connection to the Earth and how this can deeply sustain us.