Core Faculty

Fran Harwood

Core Faculty

Fran Harwood, M.A. (Clin.Psych.), has been a psychotherapist in Toronto, specializing in Trauma and the Expressive Arts, for over 30 years. She has found that that the arts can articulate implicit layers of nonverbal and preverbal experience. They can also reveal and assist in the healing of trauma. She has a particular interest in the developmental process from conception, through birth into childhood and on, studying with both Dr William Emerson and Dr Graham Farrant in the conception to birth period. She trained in the Gestalt Institute of Toronto.

Sally Johnson

Core Faculty

Sally Johnson, B.Sc., M.A. (Transp Psych), is a Transpersonal Depth Psychotherapist, Counsellor, and Facilitator working with clients in Grey-Bruce County. She also teaches practitioners how to use art as a therapeutic tool in her Communication Through Art courses. She is currently giving seminars on The Shadow to management teams, workshops on Creating Personal Symbols, and writing about difficult emotions and the human condition. Her background is in Transpersonal Psychology, Holistic Experiential Psychotherapy, Expressive Arts, and Adoption Reunion.

Linsay Cornfield

Core Faculty

Linsay Cornfield, Cert., Ad. Ed. And Counselling, began her career as an actor, writer and co- director of a social action theatre company throughout the 70s and 80s, including working for Dr. Jean Houston. She has designed and delivered numerous workshops on creativity, body image, visioning new careers, life transitions, sexuality, body/mind awareness, improvisation, ritual and clowning.

David Cornfield

Core Faculty

David Cornfield is a certified HEP practitioner. David’s parents dreamed he would become a lawyer. At 17 David rebelled, choosing engineering instead of law. Two years of applied science taught him that engineering was not his thing. Time for Plan B. Called to the Bar in 1968, his ten year law career was directed to making the world a better place, first as a policy planner with the Department of Justice, and later as a staff lawyer in community legal services. In 1979 he decided it would more effective and more satisfying to change the world by helping people change.

Jim McNamara

Core Faculty

Jim McNamara, MBBS, ND, Programs Director of The Living Institute. He has been practicing since 1973 doing individual, couples, group and intensive retreat work. He is currently working as a practitioner of holistic life coaching and existential spiritual counselling. As well as teaching and giving workshops, he provides leadership in the field of cultural activism.

Caroline Mardon

Core Faculty

Caroline Mardon, BA (Hon) (Eng), Director of the Living Institute, Director of the Living Institute Psychotherapy Diploma. She has been practicing psychotherapy since 1991, offering individual and group work, primal therapy, as well as public work-shops and lectures in archetypal, body-oriented and experiential psychology, emotional yoga and the alchemical tradition.