DEREK RAFAELLI

Fellow of the Bayswater Institute, Working Conference Director, MA psychology, Chartered Psychologist and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist (British Psychoanalytic Council).

After 3 years working in special education and social work, Derek Raffaelli joined the Scottish Office Psychological Service in 1975 where he worked with disturbed and delinquent children in residential schools and secure accommodation. It was in this phase that he formed a career long interest in linking clinical practice with the study of organisational processes : the individual in his/her environment, each – in all their rich complexity – influencing and shaping each other.

Significant institutions during this period were the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (where he did group relations training ) and the Scottish Institute of Human Relations where he trained in family therapy and psychoanalytical psychotherapy. It was here he first worked with Harold Bridger – in 1980 – on the staff of his double task based Working Conference. In the mid 90's he did training in action research in Scandinavia with Hans van Beinum, Claude Faucheux and Rene van der Vlist.

Between 1989 and 2001 he was - with others - responsible for the building up of the SIHR's Glasgow base of which he was the manager. During that time he continued to teach and run his clinical practice.

From 2001 until the present he has concentrated on his professional interests in therapy, organisational consultancy and training via the Bayswater Institute, his private practice and in other organisations. Derek Raffaelli works across a wide variety of settings, including industrial and commercial, health, governmental, church and voluntary sectors.