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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
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