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Speakers

Dr Eugen Koh

Dr Eugen Koh is a psychiatrist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist, based in Melbourne Australia. He has a special interest in assisting individuals and communities who have experienced severe trauma. He was, for many years, the Director of the Dax Centre, a unique organisation dedicated to the use of art for mental health promotion. He is consulted internationally on the role of art and culture in mental health promotion and suicide prevention, the healing of collective trauma, development of trauma informed communities, conflict resolution and peacebuilding. He has written on ‘The Healing of Historical Collective Trauma’ and ‘The Impact of Trauma on Peace Processes’.

has, for more than a decade, assisted in the development of a range of projects involving art and culture in addressing mental health issues and trauma, including the development of trauma-informed communities. For almost a decade, he worked with traumatised Aboriginal communities in the Central Australia desert, facilitating discussion among their leaders about their communities’ experience of trauma, and encouraging collective art making to promote dialogue and understanding across generations. He has written about this work in a paper ‘Cultural Work to Address Conflict and Violence in Traumatised Communities”. He is currently co-convenor of a multidisciplinary academic group aiming to conduct the first major conference on Japan’s experience of World War 2 trauma, a project that is described in his paper ‘The Long Term Effects of Japan’s Traumatic Experience in the Second World War and Its Implication for Peace in North East Asia’.

has developed a new conceptualisation of communities that considers their deeper unconscious dynamics and the effects of trauma on their collective psychology. He is now working on a new psychoanalytic conceptualisation of culture that focus on aspects of cultures that are not usually within our awareness and how cultures are created and changed. In 2015, he was invited by John, Lord Alderdice and the Centre for Democracy and Peacebuilding to Northern Ireland to explore ways to use art and culture to address collective trauma and peacebuilding. He has visited annually since, working with various groups, including Bryson and TIDES for the past three years.

Professor Melinda Ashley Meyer DeMott, PhD

Professor Melinda Ashley Meyer DeMott, PhD in Expressive Arts, Director of Psychodrama, Bioenerge pc therapist and has been a researcher at the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies from 2004 to 2016. She is the Director and Co- founder of the Norwegian Institute for Expressive Arts Therapy (1988 to present) and the project leader for the graduate studies in Expressive Arts at the University of South-east Norway (USN). She is part of the faculty at the European Graduate School (EGS) and Program Director of the Campus Malta Certificate Program in Global Health and Peacebuilding. Since 1983 she has focused on the combination of community, group and individual psychotherapy with trauma survivors. She worked as an expressive arts therapist at the Psychosocial Centre for Refugees with torture survivors and war refugees from 1990 – 2004. She has been giving lectures and workshops within the field of trauma and cross-cultural group work in Europe, Africa, North, Central and South America. In addition to the three documentary films she has written articles and participated in writing several articles and books.

Dr Mary Montague

Dr Mary Montague has over 40 years’ experience in peace building in Northern Ireland. Co- founder of TIDES Training, she delivered Peace Building and Mediation interventions both in her own country and internationally. She is a Restorative Practitioner and has supported the transition of armed groups, communities and civil society towards peace. Mary is the European Representative for Mediators Beyond Borders. She trains and mentors Women leaders from across the world in mediation, peace building and restorative practice.

She is a member of the Global Peacebuilder Summit, a forum of 30 eminent peacebuilders from around the world, providing global discourse on the role of civil society in the field of conflict transformation. She is a founding member of Women Waging Peace a global network created at the J.F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Boston, USA.

Judge Mike Lucas

Judge Mike Lucas is a Judge in the Court of Common Pleas of Washington County, Pennsylvania, having been elected by the voters in 2013. Since taking the “bench,” in 2014, he has served in all divisions of the Court of Common Pleas to include six years as the lead judge in Dependency Court, which focuses on neglected and abused children. While presiding over the Dependency Court, Judge Lucas reinstituted the Washington County Children’s Roundtable (2014-2020), was appointed Chairman of the Region 4 (5 County area) Children’s Roundtable for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (2017-2018) and was a member of the State Roundtable. These Roundtables focused on bringing evidence based practices such as family group decision making to child welfare. Judge Lucas was the Co-Chair of the 2018 Children’s Summit for Pennsylvania, “Building a Family First Commonwealth.” Now assigned to the civil division where new case filings exceed 5,000 per year, Judge Lucas relies heavily conflict resolution methods. Prior to becoming a judge, he was a trial lawyer, for 21 years, who prosecuted primarily violent crimes, was twice appointed the First Assistant District Attorney for the County, and who represented at trial businesses, local governments and individual persons. In 2011, the Washington County Bar Association awarded him the Robert E, Ceisler Professionalism Award. He graduated in 1989 Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Washington and Jefferson College and in from 1992 Duquesne University Law School (Law Review). He resides in Carroll Township, with his wife Anna and their three daughters Emma, Sarah and Maggie.

Andy Lloyd

Andy Lloyd is Head of Children’s Workforce Development in Leeds Children’s Services. He is a qualified Social Worker and began his career working in the residential child care sector before moving to work in the fields of child protection and youth justice. After working in statutory services for 8 years, he them moved into the third sector where he managed a large family support service in Leeds. He then moved to work at two of the three Universities in Leeds, latterly as Head of Department.

Nearly nine years ago, he took up the post of Head of Children’s Workforce Development and Change at Leeds Children’s Services. In this role, he is committed to four principles - all learning and development should be:

• Child centred
• Restorative in nature
• Research informed.
• Outcome focussed

Andy is passionate about restorative and relational practice and leads for the directorate accountable for its roll out; Andy leads the Leeds Relational Practice Centre and is responsible for ensuring that the voice of children is heard in Leeds and that their voice has influence. He is a strong advocate of the Child Friendly Leeds ambition.

Liza Wilkinson

Liza Wilkinson is the Director in TIDES. Liza joined TIDES in 2004 as a Training Assistant and has 25 years’ experience in the field of good relations, conflict resolution and capacity building, using restorative practice with extensive meditative experience. Liza previously worked as a Family & Community Worker for Corrymeela for 5 years and has a passion for building capacity for peaceful social change. Working within NI & across the Island of Ireland as a trainer and facilitator with youth groups, women’s groups, minority groups, urban and rural groups as well as with practitioners, ex-combatants, victims, statutory providers, etc. Liza has worked internationally with a range of agencies including UN, Concern, UNHCR and OSCE in the Balkans, Zimbabwe, Cyprus, North America and across Europe. Liza holds Postgraduate Diplomas in Management and Leadership at UUJ and Learning and Development through CIPD and is a member of the Global Peacebuilders Network, certified mediator form the Mediation Institute Ireland. TIDES are now the European partner of Mediators Beyond Borders. Liza has carried out a range of successful mediations developing her skills, relationships and capacity & is certified through Mediation Institute Ireland – neighbour/neighbour, community issues around bonfires, murals and parades, interface cases and workplace. Liza is on the board of Newlodge & Duncairn Partnership and has recently joined the NI Office Centenary committee.

Jo Marley

Jo Marley is the Director of Bryson Care which is a subsidiary company of the Bryson Charitable Group. Bryson is one of the largest charities and social enterprises operating throughout Northern Ireland. Bryson Care works with families, children and communities regionally to maximise their potential and build their best futures in a peaceful, thriving society with a team of over 600 staff. Under Jo’s leadership, at the onset of COVID-19, the Bryson Charitable Group invested £250K from its own reserves to provide relief (food, home heating bills, whitegoods and emotional support) to communities in the utmost need.

Bryson Care is the Lead Partner of the SEUPB Peace IV fund Dialogues About Race and Ethnicity (DARE) to Lead Change project which seeks to improve relationships between the indigenous population and individuals who are black and minority ethnic. The project set the foundations for our Communities in Transitions work in North Down and Lurgan. Bryson Care is a member of the Northern Ireland Refugee Resettlement Consortium which delivers the NI response to the Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme. Bryson Care also supports new and vulnerable black and minority ethnic individuals and families, including Travellers, and is a provider of Asylum advice and support services.

Ms Marley previously worked for 12 years in the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust as a Social Worker, Senior Social Worker, Assistant Principal Social Worker and finally an Operational Manager before joining the Bryson Charitable Group.

Ms Marley has an MSc in Systemic Psychotherapy has a BA (Hons) History and Politics and is a professionally qualified Social Worker. She was awarded an MBE in 2007 for services to the community of NI.

Declan Harvey

Our MC Declan Harvey is a multi-award winning journalist, producer and presenter. He currently fronts Northern Ireland’s most popular drivetime radio news programme, Evening Extra, alongside Tara Mills on BBC Radio Ulster, and also BBC Newsline television bulletins. Previously Declan was one of the best known voices on BBC Radio 1’s Newsbeat programme. He has also presented ‘the world’s biggest breakfast programme’, Newsday, on the international BBC World Service. His career started at LBC Radio in London, where he was lead correspondent on a range of national stories including the Stephen Lawrence murder trial, the preparations for London 2012 Games and the July 7th Bombings’ Inquests. He has also reported for Classic FM and Capital FM. His documentaries include Generation Right (BBC Radio 4), which looks at how millennials approach voting very differently to previous generations, and Did A Serial Killer Murder My Sister?, which was recognised at the New York Radio Festival awards. He currently hosts the BBC’s Year ’21 podcast which is telling the story, week-by-week, of how Northern Ireland was created exactly a century ago. In 2019 Declan was named “News Reporter of the Year” at the IMRO Irish Radio Industry Awards. He lives in Belfast with his partner.

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