Wellington, New Zealand
26 - 27 March 2009
Register now for the 2009 Support Work Summit to be held at 'The Basin' in Wellington. The theme of the summit is "Ideas Worth Sharing".
Strategic Advisor
Gary Platz
Gary Platz has been involved in Wellink Trust since 1999 and is now Strategic Advisor.
Since 1994, Gary has been working in the mental health area as a consumer worker. He has set up recovery programmes, run recovery focused day programs and developed training syllabuses for mental health consumers. He co-founded Case Consulting Ltd, a consumer company that works only with research, education, consultation and the like minds like mine campaign.
Gary has been involved in the setting up of Central Potential and the Hutt Valley consumer network Oasis Network. He's been published internationally and been keynote speaker, in overseas conferences. Has also ran recovery focused workshops in United States, UK, Australia and New Zealand. He has also established peer run services such as Warmline, Homelink and Key We Way.
As part of his recovery journey, Gary has qualifications in adult teaching, has trained as a psycho-dramatist over many years and has qualifications in many types of bodywork therapies. In his years of training as a psycho-dramatist he concentrated on organisational development.
Gary Platz
Strategic Advisor
ph: 04 801 1118
fax: 04 801 8509
mobile: 027 488 2743
garyp@wellink.org.nz
