Boarding School Survivors
Team
Nick
Duffell,
the founder of BSS, was born in 1949 and went
to boarding schools both in Europe and in England. He has a degree
in Sanskrit, and taught for a while at a boarding school in India.
After some years as a builder and carpenter, he retrained in psychotherapy.
He has worked as a family therapist and mediator, organisational
consultant, and has wide experience as a trainer and facilitator.
He writes and broadcasts on psychological issues and has two grown-up
sons. He is the author of The Making of Them, edited by the late
Rob Bland.
Helena
Løvendal-Sørensen
was not born in England, nor was she sent to boarding school.
In Denmark, where she was born and educated, such institutions
were considered punishment rather than reward. She therefore
brings a fresh eye to the programme, as well as her experience
of working with people, as a social worker, psychotherapist,
and supervisor. She specialises in working with women, has consulted
to local authorities on child sexual abuse, and was a faculty
member of the London Institute of Psychosynthesis. She is married
to a boarding school survivor.
Helena and
Nick are married and founded the Centre for Gender Psychology,
and authored Sex, Love and The Dangers of Intimacy (Book is available from the Gender Psychology site).
Darrel
Hunneybell was born in Huddersfield 1963 and has spent many years working
in mental health. A qualified psychotherapist, he works with
men groups, runs his own private practice, and counsels excluded
adolescent boys in a residential school in Hertfordshire. Darrel
brings to the team a ‘normal’ schooling along with
his experience, commitment and heart.
