Dr. Michaela Fried is child and adolescent psychiatrist, specializing in NVR case management for acute and complex crisis, as well as trauma therapy. She is contractual partner of the Institut für Neue Autorität in Austria (INA), assimilating NVR methodologies as supervisor and coach in schools, foster homes and families in Austria. Michaela is medical director of HPZ Rust, a therapeutic center for indoor treatment of children aged 6 to 16 years and deputy medical director of an outpatient department at PSD Eisenstadt/Burgenland. She has been involved in social projects in Europe and abroad, including voluntary humanitarian work with terminally ill people (UK), war refugees (former Yugoslavia, Macedonia, South Sudan, Gaza) in mission with several NGOs. She is a graduate of the University of Vienna, and has completed her Post-doctoral fellowship at Thomas Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. Her medical areas of expertise are child-psychiatry and pediatrics. She is also a certified psychotherapist and trauma therapist and has completed NVR- basic and advanced training courses in Tel Aviv.
Dan Dolberger is a family therapist specializing in NVR-oriented systemic interventions, with particular emphasis on AED (Adult Entitled Dependence), resistance to family violence, and crisis intervention. Dan manages the Center for Non-Violent Resistance Psychology, a private counseling center for parents of adults suffering from AED and behavior and anxiety problems, which he co-founded with Professor Haim Omer. Dan has developed and published, together with Professor Omer and the center team, a NVR-based intervention model for AED. He is also founder of an international forum of NVR practitioners and a team member of the School of Non-Violent Resistance. . Dan holds an M.A. degree in Social Psychology from the Tel Aviv University and is a graduate of the Herzeliyah Shinui Institute of Family Therapy.
Dr Peter Jakob : Consultant Clinical Psychologist . With a background in social work, Peter has worked as Clinical Psychologist and Family Therapist in both CAMHS and Adult Mental Health for 35 years, specialising in children and families involved with child protective services. He has in-depth knowledge of treating trauma as the after-effect of childhood sexual abuse and other forms of sexual violence, physical abuse, neglect and domestic violence, as well as extensive experience in providing therapy for parents’ mental health problems.
Peter has introduced Non Violent Resistance (NVR) to the UK. He has adapted the approach for heavily traumatised, multi-stressed families, and his work with looked-after children has inspired him to develop a child focus in NVR. Peter is a prolific national and international presenter.
Aiming to develop collaborative working relationships in which dialogue can flourish and service users’ experience and perspectives are centred in conversation, Peter considers social awareness as a cornerstone of engaged therapeutic practice.
Martin Fellacher is the Managing Director and owner of PINA - The Pedagogical Institute for New Authority in Austria. He is working with that ideas of NVR in the fields of parental coaching, trainings and coaching for care workers, social workers and teachers as well as for HR managers. Martin is also the chairman of “Bridges for Hope and Peace”, a small international NGO that that supports psychosocial involvement in conflict-prone settings.
He is a social worker, personnel and competence manager by profession. His professional experiences he gathered in working with adolescents, families and people with addictions. Martin has also two years of international experience in Papua New Guinea in HIV/AIDS- and education projects and nine years of refugee work in the Austrian province of Vorarlberg (seven of them in senior management). He is also co-founder of an international forum of NVR practitioners.
