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Keynote Speakers' Biographies
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Ben Furman
Ben Furman, M.D. co-founder of Helsinki Brief Therapy Institute Ltd. and Twin Star Ltd, is a psychiatrist, psychotherapist and an internationally renowned expert in the field of solution-focused psychotherapy, coaching and organisational development.
He is known as an innovator who has contributed widely to the development of solution-focused, strength-based and generally more positive approaches to psychotherapy and coaching.
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Taimalieutu Kiwi Tamasese
Taimalieutu is Coordinator of the Pacific Section of the Family Centre. She specialises in family research as this applies to the Pacific nations and to Pacific people - for example in relation to mental health, poverty, housing, unemployment, cultural and gender deprivation.
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Di O'Neil
Di studied social work at Melbourne University in the 1960s. She has had 38 years experience as a social worker. Most of that time has been spent in the child and family welfare field with more recent involvement in mental health recovery and community capacity building.
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Wayne McCashen
Wayne is Education and Training Co-ordinator for Family and Children's Services, Top End Region, in the Northern Territory. He is a leader in the articulation and development of the strengths approach to working in the human services and has written material on strengths-based practice that is used nationally and internationally.
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