Aubrey Maasdorp

Aubrey has over fifteen years experience of training and facilitation,both in the UK and worldwide. His areas of expertise and experience include leadership, management, and personal development, equalities and diversity issues. Aubrey regularly delivers training on topics as

diverse as Recruitment and Selection, Managing Sickness and Diversity,Stress and Time Management, Influencing Skills and Better Self Management. Aubrey has contributed and edited a number of training manuals.

He also delivers training on a range of issues regarding working with people with HIV and their family carers.

Brenda Walker

B.Sc., Cert Ed., Dip Sw, TDLB

Brenda (Ben) has worked with older people for nearly 30 years and had a specialist interest in dementia for the past 15 years. Initially she worked as a manager in various home care and residential settings and

has been a trainer for the past 12 years. She now works in a freelance capacity for a wide range of public, private and voluntary

organisations.

Brenda does a lot of work for Nottingham City where she helped develop the JackDawe Scheme, a specialist home care service for people with dementia. She continues to provide all the training in support of this service. This experience has spawned an interest in the kind of

organisational structures, care planning systems and managerial approaches necessary for the delivery of person centred services.

Brenda is qualified as a teacher, trainer, social worker and dementia care mapper.

Danuta Lipinska

BA Hons. Psychology, MA in Counselling, SRN

Danuta has developed services for people with Alzheimer's Disease, their families and the professionals who care for them. She has extensive experience as a trainer, specialising in gerontology and dementia care, bereavement, psychology of groups, teambuilding and group facilitation.

Danuta regularly delivers courses for us on mental health issues and sexuality in later life and undertakes 'Protection of Vulnerable Adults' training on behalf of for dementia training.

Danuta now has a freelance training consultancy and private counselling practice and is an international conference speaker.