About Enlightened
Last Updated (Sunday, 20 June 2010 17:02)
What We Are
Enlightened Consultants Pty Ltd was established by Helen and Paul Glover in 2001 as a bespoke training and consultancy service to the human service industry, in particular the mental health and disability fields.
Enlightened Consultants focuses on supporting organisations and individuals, in implementing and practising sustainable solutions that enable greater client centredness and responsiveness to their work.
Enlightened Consultants are based in Redland Bay on the bayside of Brisbane Australia, and provides services to clients in Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden and Italy.
Who We Are
Directors
Helen Glover
Helen Glover uses her professional background in social work and education as well as her lived experience of her own recovery from mental illness to expand and challenge the concepts of recovery-oriented practice within mental sector.
She lectures and provides training nationally and internationally on the opportunities, challenges and tensions of creating recovery-oriented practice and support environments.
Helen has been a co researcher in the qualitative Australian study:
"Recovery from Schizophrenia from a Consumer Perspective."
She currently works as an independent consultant and her company, Enlightened Consultants, provides a range of training solutions and consultancy to government, non-government service providers, people with a lived experience and their families.
Helen is passionate about the reality of recovery from mental illness/distress, and works with organisations in assisting them to further create environments, where the focus is on supporting people in their personal efforts of recovery.
In combining her lived experience with her professional background, and drawing on her interest in education and learning, she has developed a number of large action learning projects around recovery-oriented leadership and systemic change.
She continues to learn from such opportunities how to support organisations, workers and people with a lived experience, where the concept of recovery is more clearly understood, embraced and utilised as a central focus within service environments.
In her spare time, Helen paddles Dragon Boats and Outriggers for pain and pleasure.
Paul Glover
Paul is currently practicing as a Remedial Massage Therapist.
Paul also provides business and administration support for Enlightened Consultants.
His professional background is in Engineering, Technical Production and Remedial Therapies.
Paul also paddles Dragon Boats and Outriggers for pain and pleasure.
Consultants
Nadine Thomas
Nadine has worked in the human services sector for over 30 years, across the mental health, disability, aged and Indigenous sectors.
Her training as an Occupational Therapist and Psychologist has helped to shape the way she approaches her work.
However the greatest teachers influencing her work and her life in general, continue to be the people she works with, and their families.
Chantelle Ritchie
Chantelle Ritchie has been working in the community mental health sector for over three years. During this time Chantelle has worked as a support worker, project officer and Services Manager.
Chantelle completed her Bachelor of Psychological Science in 2008 at the University of New England (UNE), Armidale NSW and is currently enrolled in the honours program at UNE.
Chantelle has a special interest in recovery oriented frameworks of service delivery and the positive impact this can have on the lives of individual’s living with a mental illness, their families and carers, employees within the mental health sector, and the wider community.
In 2009, Chantelle completed the Recovery Oriented Mentoring Program (ROMP) with Helen Glover, and in 2010 is involved in the re-development of the Certificate IV Mental Health in Queensland.
Chantelle is working towards completing her honours thesis in the area of recovery by the end of 2011. Chantelle has been involved in a wide range of Community Mental Health Awareness activities, and has been working pro-actively to raise awareness of mental health issues.