These languages are in the very capable hands of Dr. Urška Žugelj, a psychotherapist and professor of attachment, whose home is Slovenia but who has also lived with her family in Zagreb (Croatia) and Belgrade (Serbia). Urška was the representative of Neufeld Institute for Dr. Neufeld’s very successful 2024 speaking tour in Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia,…
Upon the request of various levels of the Ukrainian government, we created a team to support Ukraine’s transition from an orphanage system to one of family-based care for orphans. Our project team is being led by Eva de Gosztonyi, a senior member of our faculty, and includes two gifted Ukrainian nationals – Iryna Shokur and…
Although part of our world-wide English language program, the culture and time zones are unique enough to warrant regional leadership. This was first provided by Adrienne Wood of Auckland and has now been passed on to Sandy Hitchens of Christchurch. Sandy’s professional background is as a counselor specializing in working with children and their parents/caregivers…
Lina has a background in psychology and computer science and is a mother of two sons. She also serves as parent consultant. She co-founded a project called Rodičovství Hrou (parenting through play) with the purpose of bringing the Neufeld paradigm to the parents, foster parents, teachers, and other professionals working with children in the Czech…
Ksienia is a psychologist, therapist and mother of two. She co-founded a project called Rodičovství Hrou (parenting through play) with the purpose of bringing the Neufeld paradigm to the parents, foster parents, teachers, and other professionals working with children in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Joanna is a psychologist, therapist and publisher as well as a mother of two children. Joanna directs our research centre and is helping to create a publishing arm of the Neufeld Institute. Joanna provides training for parents and helping professionals in the Neufeld approach.
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. Mathieu brings many talents to this directorship, including managing the French website and…
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…