Recognising that mental health will be a major ongoing concern from the recent bushfires in Australia, the Rotarian Action Group for Family Safety, with the support of Rotary Melbourne, invited members of the District to meet with Dr Derek Farrell to learn about how we can build the capacity for communities to heal after crises. We were proud to be able to live stream a recording of Derek’s presentation for last week’s meeting via FaceBook.
Derek is a Principal Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Worcester (UK), an EMDR Therapy Europe Accredited Trainer and Consultant, a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society, and an Accredited Psychotherapist with the British Association of Cognitive & Behavioural Psychotherapies (BABCP). He is involved in a number of Humanitarian Trauma Capacity Building programs in Pakistan, Turkey, India, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia, Lebanon, Poland, Palestine and Iraq.
