Penny Parks
Penny Parks is a Communications Consultant, Motivational Speaker, Author, Trainer and a Life & Health Coach. She is a gifted communicator acclaimed for enhancing participant's self-confidence, motivation, inspiration and creativity. She presents Masterclass seminars renowned for humour, high-energy and life-changing impact.

Mrs Parks has worked with the NHS, MIND, Relate, B.T., Social Services, Police Departments, Probation Services, Solicitors, Universities and Colleges, Psychotherapy & Hypnotherapy Training Organisations, Professional Associations, Private Agencies and diverse businesses. She has appeared on national and local television and radio.

She is a psychotherapist, who pioneered and developed the first ‘inner child’ therapy model in the United Kingdom – designed to successfully resolve childhood abuse issues. Mrs Parks is Patron of Personal Recovery Services (PRS) in Somerset. She is the author of two popular therapeutic books, Rescuing the Inner Child, and The Counsellor’s Guide to Parks Inner Child Therapy (PICT).

Mrs Parks is an American, with British citizenship, who has lived in the UK since 1982. She is married and lives in Suffolk where she is well known as a jazz/blues vocalist.

If you wish to book Penny to speak or train at your own event, Penny's speaker fees are 40% of the ticket price with a minimum fee of £1200 plus expenses.

Rod Tallowin (The Barefoot Warrior)
The first years of Rod's working life were spent with a medical engineering company moving up the ladder to become Finance Director and then Operations Director. After 22 years with this company he then moved on to become Managing Director of an IT company to expand his increasing interest in the world of IT. After making significant developments to that company he turned his skills to business consultancy, becoming a "hired gun" to troubleshoot problem businesses and also providing some specialist management training.

Over his career many colleagues and clients had commented on his effective leadership style and Rod then turned his attention to understanding what made effective leaders, becoming an NLP Practitioner, and subsequently providing leadership coaching and training. He now provides one to one leadership coaching and a comprehensive, fully structured leadership training programme.

He has recently extended that leadership training to combine his knowledge and skills in business, leadership, NLP and website development to teach businesses how copy needs to be written for their websites to both properly attract visitors and turn those visitors into customers.

Another recent addition to the stable of coaching/training provided is the provsion of a Workshop on breaking the habit of the Thinking Addiction™, more commonly known as depression.

For more information about the Barefoot Warrior click here

PICT trainers are chosen for their professional qualifications, practical knowledge, experience and their reputation for excellent communication skills. We use a range of learning techniques as our aim is to provide students with the highest possible standard of training and enable them to make immediate use of their learning. We want students to leave the PICT course with a rich bank of knowledge and solid practical solutions.

Our training is informed, evidence-based, very practically focused and always delivered in an engaging way which leads to excellent evaluations through student feedback. Students will always be able to refresh their knowledge as all their extensive and well organised training materials remain with them.

Susan Osborne
Susan Osborne has substantial grounding in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, and as both a PICT Advanced Practitioner and Senior PICT Trainer she is able to offer her clients an invitation to access resolution to all areas of trauma, abuse and accumulated issues which interfere with everyday functioning. Her extensive skills have been employed by many agencies including the judicial system, where her skills are employed for psychological assessment and police training.

Her main areas of interest are raising the profile in professional standards and, through the provision of training and supervision, ensuring the therapists and students she trains reflect the ethos of Parks Inner Child Therapy (PICT).

Susan's clients can be assured that, just as each person's underlying building blocks (schemas) for life are unique to that person, every client can bring their vulnerabilities and sensitivities into therapy and be met with compassion and resolution. Through the provision of new information and the emphasis on finding solutions, the client finds themselves 'working' and having 'hope' from the first session.

To bring the balance in her life, Susan spends time creating her garden and riding out on her native breed horse across the bridle paths of East Suffolk. Always up for a challenge, Susan brings her vitality to a diverse range of activities that work both her body and her mind.

Lindsay Schofield
Lindsay is a Trainer, Supervisor and PICT Advanced Practitioner with a private practice near Croydon, South East London. She has specialised for work with trauma and children. Lindsay presents the PICT course and workshops, counselling training and skills, and her own workshops on counselling children.

Lindsay is a licentiate member of the NCP, and a member of the ACC, BACP and BABCP.

Lindsay is married with two teenage sons and a menagerie of animals.

Nikki Heaton
Nikki is a PICT Practitioner and counsellor with particular interest in trauma and abuse. She has a private practice, The Counselling and Holistic Therapy Centre in Halifax, working with both adults and adolescents. She also develops and runs counselling services in schools for young people. Nikki will commence running PICT training courses in the North early in 2011. She is a member of BACP (MBACP), and a single mum with a great zest for life and an equally zesty little boy who is 5 years old.

Liane Kavanah-Davies
Liane Kavanah-Davies has over 10 years’ experience as a Parks Inner Child Therapist, Hypnotherapist, Integrated Life Coach, Psychotherapist and Reflexologist working in Europe and the UK. More recently she has worked as a PICT trainer and AQA counselling tutor while continuing to see clients in private practice and undertaking further study at degree level. Liane has a keen interest in the wellbeing of individuals and works successfully with a wide variety of clients including children.

Liane uses her unique professional and personal skills to enable clients at all levels to reach their personal goals. She lives with family in West Mersea and works in and around Colchester, Essex.