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A Professional and

Public Profile 

for Piers

Professional Accreditation

  • National Association for Loss and Grief, Australia.   1999.

Accredited Grief Counsellor, Grief Counselling Supervisor, Grief Group Facilitator, Grief & Death Educator and Crisis Debriefer. 

  • The Association for Death Education and Counselling,  (ADEC), USA.   2003.

Certified Thanatologist, Accredited Death and Grief Educator, and Course Tutor.

Code of Ethics

My practice is shaped by adherence to the Code of Ethics of two organisations:

  •    The Australian and New Zealand Psychodrama Association 

  •    The New Zealand  Association of Counsellors.   

 

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Includes

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Post Graduate Diploma of Thanatology:  Death, Dying and Bereavement

The Association for Death Education and Counselling, USA.   2003.

Certificate in Death and Bereavement Educational Services

A correspondence course of 10 modules.

Tobin Brothers, Funeral Directors, Australia.   1989.

BA Degree,   Otago University.   

Education / Personnel Management / Organisational Systems.   1989

Certificate in Adult Learning and Teaching

Massey University.   1997.

Certificate in Clinical Supervision (Refresher) Central Institute of Technology, Wellington.   1998.

Training for Trainers of Clinical Supervisors:  Central Institute of Technology, Wellington.   1994.

Be Your Own Boss:  Dunedin Small Business Enterprise Centre.   2001.

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Supervision Training

  • Certificate in Clinical Supervision:  CIT, Wellington.   (Refresher).

  • Clinical Supervision:  Roles and Foci:  Dr. Antony Williams, Australia.  

  • Visual and Active Clinical Supervision:  Dr. Antony Williams, Australia.  

  • Training for Trainers of Clinical Supervisors:  Dr. Gordon Hewitt, Wellington.  

  • Role Theory in Supervision:  Sandra Turner, Dunedin.  

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Sociodrama Training

A sociodramatist learns to analyse systems and be a change agent:  in groups and in society.   Since 1994 I have completed over 1,200 hours sociodrama training with the Australian and New Zealand Psychodrama Association. Training is focused on

  • Role theory

  • Sociometry

  • Sociodrama

  • Systems theory

  • Leadership skills

  • Group dynamics

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Psychotherapeutic Training

In addition to the specialist training indicated above, substantial training in other psychotherapeutic modalities has been undertaken to ensure an eclectic approach.  They include Gestalt, Transactional Analysis, Person-Centered Counselling, The Existentialist Approach, Neuro Linguistic Programming, Rational-Emotive and Cognitive therapies.  

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Organisational Consultancy & Training

  • Organisational Consultancy:  Dr. Antony Williams, Australia, 1998                   

  • Role Play in Training:   NZATD.  

  • Organisational Consultancy:  Dr. Antony Williams, Australia.  1996 

  • Action Methods in Training:  Dr. Robert Crawford, Dunedin.  

  

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General Training Includes:

Bicultural Awareness – Tikanga A Rua

Critical Incident Debriefing

Crisis Management and Intervention

Client Assessment

Dealing with Conflict

Accelerated Learning

Dealing with Difficult Customers

Positive Stress and Anger Management

Effective Performance Appraisal

Creative Listening

Adult Crisis and Life Patterns

Time Management

Professional Boundaries, Ethical Issues, and Personal Safety

First Aid Certificate (2011, 2015)

NZ Sign Language for the Deaf (2011)

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Offered here is a small sampling that illustrates the diversity of specialist training in grief that has been undertaken over the years.   Study, and learning in this area, continue..     Of special significance for the writer,  is the time and trainng undertaken with Rabbi Dr. Earl Grollman, Dr Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and Dr Glassock.

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Bereavement After Homicide.   Edward K. Rynearson, MD, USA.

Half day Seminar.

Trauma Management.   Dr. Earl Grollman, USA.   Day workshop.

Biculturalism and Grief.   Ngai Tahu, Dunedin.   Two day workshop.

Teenagers and Grief.   Dr. Rod Mitchell, Auckland.  Two day workshop.

Death, Grief and Bereavement.   Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.   Day Seminar.

Critical Incident Stress Management.   Dr. G. Glassock, Aust.  

Two day workshop.

Death:  Contrasting Perspectives in the Theological Debate.  

Knox Theological College, Dunedin.  A four-week course.

Death Anxiety:  An existential perspective.   Ashburn Clinic, Dunedin.  

A one-year evening course.

Death, Grief and Bereavement.   Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.  

Day Seminar.

Ethical Issues, Death, Dying and the Meaning of Life.   Otago University and Medical School.   A six week course.

Grief, Loss and Grief Resolution.   Dr. Evan Shearer, Auckland.  

Two day workshop. 

Bereavement.   David Treloar, Tobin Bros. Australia.  

One day seminar.  

Publications

  • Dunedin Council of Social Services Newslink, May 1991 & June 1991 ‘Grief and the affect it has on our lives’.  These articles were requested by DCOS after presenting at two, public lunch-time meetings which were very well attended.

  • New Zealand Journal of Adult Learning.   Vol 29, No. 1, June 2001.

       ‘Learning to Grieve’.   The article highlights that not all adult learning                    is formal, voluntary or acknowledged.  Submitted at the request of the                publishers.

  • Coming to Grief – a survival guide to grief and loss.   Longacre.   2002.

Now a course text at two New Zealand tertiary institutions and nominated for the 2003 Montana Book Awards.

  •  Children’s Grief – a guide for parents.   Longacre.   2004.

        A practical guide to help adults talk to children about loss, grief and                    death.

  •  Dimensions of Loss, Grief, Death and Bereavement.   2002.

A self-paced, distance-learning course consisting of eleven modules designed to instruct those who work with and care for those who are grieving.   Has received endorsement from ADEC and is recognised as a precursor for their post graduate certification in thanatology.

  • ​‘Facilitating Recognition of Experiential Learning:  Flexibility in Tool   Selection’.  Scope, Contemporary Research Topics.   November 2009.     This  project was undertaken and written with my colleagues whilst at   CapableNZ

Key Note Speaker

  • Alzheimers Rotorua, Annual Regional Seminar 2015

  • New Zealand School Counsellors  National Conference  2016

  • Celebrants Association of New Zealand, National Conference 2007

  • New Zealand Schizophrenia Awareness Week, National Conferece 2007

  • New Zealand Enrolled Nurses Regional Conference 2006

  • Alzheimers New Zealand National Conference 2002

  • New Zealand National Hospice Conference 2000

  • New Zealand Emergency Nurses National Conference 1997

  • New Zealand Occupational Health Nurses Organisation National Conference 1989

"It's all about Developing People Potential"

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