Alumni Profile: Monica Hanaway
What did you do before training as a Psychotherapist and
Mediator?
My original
training was in Fine Art and I stated my working life as an art
teacher. Many of my students had challenging background and I
became interested in psychology, leading to me training as a
psychotherapist. Throughout the time I was working as a therapist
in private practice I was also a Head of Service in a large Local
Authority, where I held the responsibility for all the services for
young people. In this senior leadership role I saw many examples of
workplace conflict which i thought were dealt with badly, so when I
heard that Regent's was running a course in Mediation (Alternate
Dispute Resolution) I immediately signed up. After the course I was
invited to join the faculty and in 2007, together with Jamie Reed
(who had also studied at Regent's) we established our company
Corporate Harmony Ltd which offers mediation, training and conflict
coaching.
Why did you choose to study at Regent’s
College?
What original drew me to Regent's was the fact that it was the
centre for Existential Psychotherapy. I had already studied other
orientations, including humanistic and psychodynamic but had always
felt drawn to the existential approach. It is exciting to find that
one could study it with some of the key exponents of the
approach.
What are your favourite memories of that time?
My favourite memories of my time in training at Regent's centre
on the firm friends I made on the course. It was exciting to be
with fellow students who were challenging themselves to think
differently and were intent on bringing an existential approach to
their therapeutic work.
What have you been up to since you graduated?
Since qualifying as a psychotherapist and mediator life has been
fascinating. My work as a mediator and coach takes me to
fascinating places in the UK and Europe, working on disputes within
the workplace, the family or the community, including some work
with gangs. Some of this work comes directly via our website
presence, other through contracts we hold with large
companies and EAPs, who provide counselling and other support to
various institutions.
I teach psychotherapy, mediation and coaching in a number of
educational institutions but also have developed existentially
based business courses delivered in-house to global and small
businesses. These include courses on Existential Coaching and
Existential Leadership. Recently I have been delighted to be
involved in the development of the new
Masters in Creative Leadership course at Regents and I am
looking forward to meeting the first cohort of students on this
innovative new course.
I have recently finished
co-editing a book on Existential Coaching which is due to be
published by Palgrave in May, this year and edited a book on
co-mediation - 'Co-Mediation: using a psychological paired
approach to resolving conflict'.
The book will be published at the end of January 2012 at the
price of £12.99. A discounted rate of £10.99 is available to
alumni, staff and students of Regent's College.
To order please download the
order form and return to:
Corporate Harmony Ltd.
Whitehouse,
Peppard lane,
Henley-on-Thames,
Oxon.
RG9 1NG.
Page last updated 1/18/2012