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 accredited as a psychotherapist with the UKCP having trained with The Institute of Psychosynthesis. He is also a clinical supervisor working with both individuals and groups. He has over twenty years experience in the NHS and Local Government, in both Social Services and Education. He brings an understanding of the effects of abandonment, alienation and institutionalisation to his work with the psychological effects of the public school experience.
Alongside co-facilitating the Boarding School Survivors workshops Darrel has worked with Nick on the Images of Masculinity week in France and Men: Sex, Power and Spirit. He co-leads the third series of the quarterly men's group, Searching for my Father I found my Self, with Hank.
