People
The Craighead Institute is managed by a Directorate; four Directors of Programmes, supported by an administrator. This group is overseen by the Board of Governors.

The Institute also works with many Professional Associates and partner organisations and everyone is introduced below:

Directors of Programmes

Jo Kennedy
Jo offers a background of work in community development and excluded groups. She has 18 years experience as a trainer and consultant with statutory and voluntary organisations and substantial experience of working with religious congregations.

Jo specialises in change management, strategic planning, evaluation, participation and leadership mentoring and with a particular interest in supporting teams to work more effectively to achieve their goals.

At Craighead, Jo's role is as Director of Organisational Development Learning Programmes as well as undertaking diverse consultancy tasks with individuals and organisations and tutoring on courses.

Pauline Petrie
Pauline's experience includes many years in senior teaching positions in secondary schools in Glasgow. She has worked on developing and delivering the Institute's Integrating Life and Faith course for over 15 years. In 2011 she completed PhD research into the methodology of the Craighead Institute. Pauline is the Craighead Institute's Director of Faith Integration and sits on the Board of Governors.

Joette Thomas
Joette is a consultant who has worked in human services since 1990; nearly 10 years of which were spent at Chief Officer level in the voluntary sector. Her current work includes training, executive coaching, and a range of supports for organisational review and development. Joette has a particular interest in the area of leadership; she strives to inspire and strengthen the people and organisations with whom she works. At the Institute Joette's role is as the Director of Organisational Consultancy.

Duncan Wallace
Duncan is a highly skilled and experienced consultant and facilitator, passionate about the importance of high quality, needs led management of voluntary organisations. He specialises in training, coaching and strategic development. He comes from a background of working within the homelessness sector but more recently he has worked with a wide variety of organisations from the NHS at all levels to religious congregations , At the Institute, Duncan's roles are as Director of Mentoring and Coaching and Director of Marketing/Finance/Admin.

Dawn Revie
Dawn is the Craighead Institute's administrator. Her background is in HR in both the private and not-for-profit sectors.  

Professional Associates
The Craighead Institute draws on a group of Professional Associates who have completed the Diploma in Organisational Consultancy and Facilitation or the Integrating Life and Faith Programme and demonstrate a commitment to our mission and purpose. We assess a Professional Associate's skills and knowledge and match them carefully with the needs of each client.

Our Associates are

Steve Atherton
With a background in interactive education, Steve has 8 years experience as the Justice and Peace Fieldworker for the Archdiocese of Liverpool. He has special interests in Catholic Social Teaching and Ignatian spirituality.

Steve is a Craighead Associate with experience of directing the Integrating Life and Faith programme.   He is a founder member of the recently formed Craighead North West.

Mary Kilcoyne
Mary offers a background in community development, pastoral and social care in the UK and other cultural settings as a facilitator, trainer and educationist in both statutory and voluntary sectors. She brings 25years of experience of working with local groups and organisations in developing models for local leadership and capacity building in both church and civic situations. Mary is particularly interested in partnership working, team building and bringing about social change through local interventions based on locally identified needs.

Mary is a Craighead Associate and facilitates the Integrating Life and Faith Programme.

Alison Clark
Alison offers facilitation, coaching and mentoring, with 15 years experience of consultancy with organisations in the third, public and private sectors. She holds an extensive portfolio of work with churches and religious groups including facilitating action learning sets for clergy, facilitating conferences and away-days, and the design and delivery of a coaching skills programme for volunteers and support workers.

She supports clients to navigate successfully through challenges, using an approach which takes into account the whole person in his or her context, and the organisation as a living system.

Alison is a Craighead Associate, having gained the Diploma in Organisational Consultancy and Facilitation in 2010 and she is fully accredited by the Association for Coaching.

Anne Macdonald
Anne's experience includes many years in senior teaching positions in secondary schools in Glasgow. She has worked on developing and delivering the Insitute's Integrating Life and Faith (ILF) course for over 15 years and is Course Director for ILF. She is also the Institute Archivist.

Isobel MacNaughtan
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Ian McKenzie
Ian has over 20 years experience of the voluntary/community sector, principally in organisational, partnership and community development. He specialises in building the capacity of community based projects and initiatives, enabling cross-sectoral partnership, participatory approaches to action research and evaluation, and facilitating the management of change. He has worked extensively with churches and faith communities as they have sought to respond and adapt to the demands of constant change and uncertainty. His qualifications include an MSc in Development Management and a Certificate in Community Education. Ian is a Craighead Associate.

Mike Nicholson
Mike's background is in charity sector project and organisational management with environmental and social care organisations, where he also delivered training and provided consultancy, notably in evaluation and feasibility study work.

Mike works as a freelance consultant and writer, and as well as supporting a range of voluntary sector organisations, he writes children's fiction and works in schools on creative writing projects.

Having completed the Diploma course in 2010 at the Craighead Institute, Mike became a Craighead Associate and has since worked on facilitation, mentoring and writing projects.

Patricia Orr
Patricia's background is in education and teacher training. She is fluent in French and Spanish and enjoys the work of facilitating Religious Congregations.   She is currently consulting to various groups and organisations from several countries of Europe and Africa.

Joan Sharples
Joan offers a background of supporting people working for social justice in a faith context, and has been active in diocesan and national Church-based initiatives over the past 25 years. She specialises in accompanying those involved in a faith journey grounded in the reality of the world.

At Craighead, Joan is part of the team based in the North-West of England delivering and promoting the Craighead Institute Integrating Life and Faith Course.   

Board of Governors

Jim Christie SJ MA MSc CQSW MInstGA FRSM UKCPRegd
Jim is a Training Group Analyst and Approved Supervisor at the IGA (Institute of Group Analysis) London. He is former Director of the Garnethill Centre, Scotland and has been involved in the provision of group psychotherapy there during that time. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (London). For more than 21 years he has worked on the official training programmes of the IGA in Dublin and Glasgow and has also worked on training assessment and consultancy programmes in the USA, Norway, Lithuania, Italy, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Kenya and Guyana. Jim is fluent in English and French. He is a Council Member of The Craighead Institute and a staff member of the Rome Leadership programme.

Dr Lisa Curtice
Lisa is a social scientist with 30 years experience in qualitative research and evaluation, much of it with community-based initiatives. Since 2001 she has been Director of the Scottish Consortium for Learning Disability.

She specialises in inclusive research methods and in bringing the views and experiences of people who are marginalised to the attention of policy makers.  She has a particular interest in the liberatory theology of disability.

Lisa is a member of the Craighead Council.  She is a former Associate of the Craighead Institute and completed the Certificate in Pastoral Ministry (now Integrating Life and Faith) in 2000.

Margaret Fielding RSHM BA MA
Margaret is currently working at the Ignatian Spirituality Centre, Glasgow. Her background in education includes teaching at both second and third levels and some experience with adults for whom English is a second language. She has over twenty years' experience of formation and leadership in her congregation, locally and internationally and now lives in a small community of sisters in Castlemilk after previously living and working in Dublin, London, France and Italy.

Werner G. Jeanrond
Werner offers more than thirty years of experiences in academic theology (teaching, research and publishing) as well as in working with a great variety of religious groups, faith bodies and other groups interested in religion in general and Christianity in particular.

He specialises in contemporary issues and challenges facing Christian faith, Christian churches and society at large in a multireligious, multicultural and quickly globalizing world.   At Craighead, Werner G. Jeanrond is a Council Member of the Board of Governors.

Alan McKell
Alan is Course Director of Integrating Life and Faith Programme with a special remit of working in Southern and Eastern Europe. He has also staffed the Faith Filled Leadership programme in Croatia. Alan is the chair of the Craighead Institute Council.

Pauline Petrie (biography under Directors of Programmes)

Partner Organisations
We also work with partner organisations who share our mission and values. These include:

Faith and Praxis http://www.faithandpraxisfcj.org/site/
The Grubb Institute http://www.grubb.org.uk/
Brett Nicholls Associates www.bnassociates.co.uk