Elisabeth Heismann Author

Elisabeth Heismann is a teacher, systems therapist, supervisor and trainer. Together with colleagues, she delivered and led the NVR parent groups within the Oxleas Mental Health Foundation Trust. Elisabeth also developed and ran specialist NVR community groups for parents whose children are in gangs or affected by child sexual exploitation. After retirement from the NHS, she co-founded the community enterprise company NVR Action and Practice CIC, offering bespoke NVR training packages for parents and professionals. Julia Jude is a lecturer at Goldmiths, University of London, a visiting lecturer at the University of Bedforshire, a systemic and group psychotherapist, supervisor, researcher and co-director of NVR Action and Practice CIC. She has researched the practice of indigenous ideas as a way of providing an alternative therapeutic frame to the contribution of indigenous literature and research within systemic and social work practice and education. Elizabeth Day is a systemic psychotherapist, supervisor, artist and educator. She established the first NVR group programme in partnership with colleagues in Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust). Now retired from full-time NHS work, she has an honorary position as a family therapist in an adult mental health team and maintains a small private therapy and supervision practice. She is a deputy editor of 'Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice'.