Forgiveness in Practice

About

Christiane Sanderson BSc. MSc. is a lecturer in Psychology at the University of Roehampton. With 26 years' experience working in child sexual abuse sexual violence complex trauma and domestic abuse she has run consultancy and training for parents teachers social workers nurses therapists counsellors solicitors the NSPCC the Catholic Safeguarding Advisory Committee the Methodist Church the Metropolitan Police Service and the Refugee Council. She is the author of Counselling Skills for Working with Trauma Introduction to Counselling Survivors of Interpersonal Trauma Counselling Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse and The Seduction of Children also published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Steve Nolan Ph.D. is a palliative care chaplain at Princess Alice Hospice Surrey UK where he works daily with people who are dying supporting them and their families. He regularly teaches spiritual care to students visiting the hospice and is a tutor on the MTh in Chaplaincy Studies at St. Michael's College Llandaff part of Cardiff University. Marina Cantacuzino is an award-winning journalist who in 2003 in response to the imminent invasion of Iraq embarked on a personal project collecting stories from people who had lived through violence tragedy or injustice and sought forgiveness rather than revenge. In 2004 she founded The Forgiveness Project (www.theforgivenessproject.com) a charitable organisation that uses real personal narratives to explore how ideas around forgiveness reconciliation and conflict resolution can be used to impact positively on people's lives. In 2012 Marina spoke at the UN General Assembly about the work of The Forgiveness Project and in 2015 she was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Dalai Lama Centre for Compassion.