Although Joanna is officially in the lead regarding the Polish program, the Neufeld Institute is really a joint endeavour between Joanna and her husband Michael. They make a dynamic duo and complement each other beautifully. Michael’s gifts and involvements have been varied, from teaching English to IT to construction to voice coaching. His educational background…
Joanna is a psychologist and psychotherapist. For several years, based on Dr. Neufeld’s approach, she specializes in work with parents and couples (as a psychologist, trainer and lecturer). She cooperates as a psychologist with Support Center of Child Development (Centrum Wspomagania Rozwoju Dziecka “Słowikowo”) and with a private kindergarten “Home Kindergarten” (“Domowe Przedszkole”). She also…
Grete – a mother of two grown children – has been heavily involved in Waldorf education and has experienced the attachment-based developmental approach as providing a comprehensive model that is not only compatible with Steiner’s approach but enriches it and explains it as well. Besides translating and delivering the Neufeld Courses in Danish, Grete has…
Margriet is a mother of four grown children and grandmother of three. She is a family counsellor involved in training other counsellors. As our lead facilitator in Dutch, Margriet has been involved in translating and now delivering the Neufeld Intensives in that language. She is also spearheading the incorporation of these courses into the Dutch…
A social worker and college instructor from Ottawa, Mathieu is a powerhouse of energy in his mission to forward this approach in the French language. In addition to his therapeutic work and college teaching, he is also an involved father of three, having taken his share of the ‘maternity leave’ with their latest child. Mathieu…
Originally from Minsk in Belarus and now living near Vancouver, this single mother of four has been a powerful force in furthering the approach in Russia. So much so that there have been more Hold On To Your Kids books sold in Russian, as well as more Russian graduates of our Neufeld Intensives, than in…
Jonas – a father of three children – is well-known on the international stage for his strong advocacy for parents in the raising of their children. His ability to articulate these concerns has resulted in high level involvement in European conferences as well as a presentation to the United Nations. His views led him to…
Shoshana – a mother of five grown children – is a Hebrew publisher whose first encounter with Dr. Neufeld was at an international La Leche League conference at which Dr. Neufeld was delivering the keynote address. This evolved into her not only publishing Dr. Neufeld’s book but also taking on the mission of forwarding the…
Marcela – a mother of two grown children – delivers the Neufeld courses and directs the facilitator training program in Spanish from Mexico City where she lives. She works closely with the Spanish publisher of Hold On to Your Kids. As a child psychologist herself, she has attracted many other psychologists into her training programs….
Jule – mother of one – is a psychologist, therapist, parent consultant and presenter. Jule directs the Neufeld Institute’s German language program which had its inception over 10 years ago and consists of over 20 trained course facilitators. Jule’s experiences with her own hypersensitive son paved the way for her passion for the field of…