About Us

As an organisational consultant I bring all my knowledge, skills and wisdom, my urban social system knowledge, my urban business skills and experience of working with and in small, medium and large organisations. I couple this with my hands-on practical  farming knowledge and expertise and use it to assist farmers, farming agencies and urban businesses to take a viable approach to produce the new business systems required with emerging environmental changes.

I own and operate a 204 acre Beef farm in Northland. I run it alongside a successful psychotherapy and organisational consultancy business working with small and medium sized urban businesses, manufacturers, farmers and farming businesses.

I enjoy working with self-employed, owner operators, managers, agricultural individuals, companies and organisations to achieve the balance of economics, productivity and the human resources required to be progressive, to change, to develop and to thrive within the new economic and sustainability demands they face.

I enjoy working with both the conventional traditional farming sector and the biological farming sector and the values they all bring.

Qualifications
 
I am a certificated psychodramatist, sociodramatist, and role trainer 
 

Sociodrama

Sociodrama has applications in education, organisational and community settings. This method is the creation of Dr J L Moreno (1889-1974) developed to address social, group and community issues. The premise of sociodrama is that all human growth and  functioning is powerfully influenced by the wider social influences in our culture. Our belief systems, value systems and ideas about how life should work are formed by this. These social and cultural forces have a powerful influence on our every day actions at home, in groups, at work, at play, in silence, when alone or when in relationships, and in all group situations.

The sociodrama producer enables the group to

  • Explore in action the unique social and cultural forces from the past, present and future that impact on our every action in life
  • Help individuals, groups and organisations to free themselves from restrictive values and belief systems that are transmitted through the culture since birth
  • Point out to participants those values and belief systems that assist in creative expression in any group situation
  • Make overt the social and cultural makeup of groups through identification of sub groups, describing the value and expectation systems that are operating
  • Have a purposeful exploration of the relationship between the self and the groups they belong to within society and the world
  • Promote deeper understanding and respect between cultures, groups and sub groups
  • Observe the social system in order to improve group, community, organisational and team development
  • learn effective methods of conflict resolution
 
The sociodramatist applies principles of sociometry, role theory, organisational theory and psychodramatic techniques to assist individuals to bring about effective group and inter group functioning. The sociodramatist produces interaction in groups of different sizes to identify the social concern of the group, and then develop a dramatic portrayal of the social system. Group members then develop new perceptions, and new approaches are opened up that lead to more open group norms and creative behaviour in the work place.
 
Sociometry 

Sociometry is a methodology for stimulating, exploring and measuring interpersonal relations invented by Dr J L Moreno (1889-1974). The purpose of sociometry is to facilitate group task effectiveness and satisfaction of participants by bringing about greater degrees of mutuality amongst people and greater authenticity in relationships. Moreno noticed groups and communities function with people being attracted to or drawn away from others, and the subsequent networks and patterns of interaction these created. He discovered that the more people chose whom they interacted with, the higher the level of satisfaction in being together, the greater the sense of belonging, and the more people achieved their purpose.

Psychodrama is an educational dramatic method of exploring an individual's set of responses within themselves and towards others and then assisting people to develop a new set of responses when entering a similar situation, whether that be at home, in a work place or social setting.
 

Exploring what is important for you

As a participant in a psychodrama session you can explore the life situations that are of interest and concern to you through this type of dramatic enactment. In the course of the enactment you can express, refine and integrate new ways of being and doing. Psychodrama works for people of all ages and cultures with a wide range of life experiences. It strengthens your sense of self. It also strengthens your relationships with others and your effectiveness in groups.

Psychodrama assists individuals to:

  • re-examine their current life situations, their past, their social networks and cultural context
  • generate new perspectives on particular events or situations
  • develop fresh responses to entrenched relationship dynamics
  • prepare for future situations in which they wish to function with a greater degree of flexibility, vitality and immediacy
  • bring together action, insight and 'here and now' experience as they engage with life
  • enlarge perceptions of themselves and others

Psychodrama assists groups to:

  • examine themselves and constructively work through the dynamics of group life
  • recognise patterns of interaction and interpersonal dynamics
  • investigate both the formal and informal relationship networks
  • recognize their collective functioning and make informed decisions about changing group norms
 


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