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The Teens and Toddlers UK team are:
Diana Whitmore MAEd, Founder, Teens and Toddlers UK
Diana is a director of Children Our Ultimate Investment UK, vice-president of the Board of COUI (USA) and the international director. She is President of the Psychosynthesis and Education Trust and is one of the UK's leading trainers of counselling and psychotherapy.
She is also a UKCP registered psychotherapist, a BACP Accredited Supervisor and has been responsible for curriculum development of accredited programmes for some 25 years and for the provision of professional training and development for counsellors, psychotherapists and youth workers.
Diana is also the author of Psychosynthesis in Education: A Guide to the Joy of Learning and Psychosynthesis Counselling in Action. Diana is a member of the trustee board of the Findhron Foundation for the past 10 years.
Stacey Millichamp, MA., Founder, Teens and Toddlers UK
Stacey is registered with the UK Council for Psychotherapy and the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy. She has a Masters Degree in Psychotherapy and a Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling and Therapy.
In addition to working in private practice she is a training therapist and supervisor for the Psychosynthesis and Education Trust, provides consultancy to Employee Assistance Programmes offering work-based counselling and is responsible for the clinical service for COUI UK.
Her background includes several years of working on the staff of the Findhorn Foundation, where she helped to design and deliver the educational curriculum for the personal and professional development of the 170 staff and students.
Peter Hein, MA Economics, Director, Teens and Toddlers UK
Peter is a Director of COUI UK since 2002. He is currently a facilitator for World Youth Service and Enterprise (since 1996). He has worked with Essex Social Services Family Group Conference Team liasing with Social Services to devise strategies. He was a lecturer in Psychosynthesis at Waltham Forest College for 6 years.
He has been a manager and supervisor of Next Step Care Management Ltd, working with Young People in the Care System, teaching young people in the care system independent living skills to ensure the safety of children.
Peter has a Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling, is a Psychosynthesis trained counsellor and trainer with extensive experience working with young people and children. He was Director of Uwe J. Mueller Finance Ltd in Germany and Tullett and Tokyo Ltd, London UK for 20 years.
Laura Huxley, Founder COUI USA
Laura Huxley, widow of Aldous Huxley, is the author of numerous books, including You are not the Target, Between Heaven and Earth, This Timeless Moment, Oneadayreason to be Happy, and The Child of Your Dreams. Founder of Children Our Ultimate Investment in 1977, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the nurturing of the possible human.
She has received widespread recognition for her humanistic achievements. Some of these include: The Thomas R. Verney Award from the Association of prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health, Hororary Doctorate of Human Sciences from Sierra University, Honoree of the United Nations Fellow of the International Academy of Medical Preventics, Honoree of The World Health Foundation for Development and Peace, from which she received a Peace Prize and Living Legacy Award from the Women's International Centre.
For further information on COUI USA see www.children-ourinvestment.org