David Paré, PhD, is Director of the Glebe Institute, A Centre for Constructive and Collaborative Practice in Ottawa. A registered psychologist, he is an adjunct faculty member in Counselling Psychology at the University of Ottawa.
David works as a therapist with adults, families and couples in Ottawa, as well as providing supervision to a range of local practitioners associated with the Glebe Institute. He offers trainings in narrative approaches both locally and internationally. David is the author of The Practice of Collaborative Counselling and Psychotherapy (Sage, 2013), and co-editor of Counseling and Social Justice: Discourse in Practice (Routledge, 2018); Collaborative Practice in Psychology and Therapy (Haworth Press, 2004) and Furthering Talk: Advances in the Discursive Therapies (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Press, 2004). David can be reached at [email protected]. |
Marc F. Leger MNTCW, R.P. is a counsellor and community worker with over 18 years of professional experience working with children, youth, families, and communities in response to a broad range of challenges and problems in their lives.
Marc is a training associate with the Glebe Institute and an International faculty member with the Dulwich Centre, one of the birth places of Narrative Therapy located in Adelaide, Australia. In addition to providing training and consulting services to local counselling and social service agencies in Ottawa, Marc is involved in narrative therapy training initiatives for professionals in Turkey and Rwanda. Marc is also a faculty member in the Masters in Narrative Therapy and Community Work program with the University of Melbourne/Dulwich Center, where he feels continually inspired by the transformative potential that creative and rigorous engagement with narrative ideas make possible for professionals and the people they work alongside of in diverse and challenging contexts throughout the globe. |