The Council

Simon Fielding OBE DO
Chairman, Executive Commitee member
Originally trained as an osteopath and was the principal architect of the Osteopaths Act 1993. He was appointed by Ministers as the first Chairman of the General Osteopathic Council and was the Department of Health's Special Adviser on complementary medicine for 13 years. A trustee of The Prince of Wales's Foundation for Integrated Health, he chairs both their Regulation and Development Committees. He is also trustee of a number of other healthcare charities including Demelza House Children's Hospice.

Hazel Adams
Executive Commitee member
Representative of the UK Medical Section Liaison Group
Anthroposophical Therapeutic Arts Practitioner at Blackthorn Medical Centre, Maidstone for the past 22 years. Hazel is also a regular visiting lecturer in therapy studies at the Tobias School of Art and Therapy at East Grinstead. She has been a member of the UK Medical Section Liaison Group of the School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland since1998.

David McGavin
Executive Committee member
General Practitioner in Maidstone for 25 years. He is co-founder of the Blackthorn Trust, which works alongside Blackthorn Medical Centre, taking local referrals of patients who have illnesses that do not respond to mainstream medicine alone. David trained in London and worked in Zululand, Berlin and Bristol before settling in Maidstone. He has a special interest in testing the application of anthroposophical medicine and therapies in challenging clinical situations.

Simon Blaxland de Lange
Executive Committee member
Representative for Curative Education & Social Therapy
Administrator and Registered Manager of Philpots Manor School, a Rudolf Steiner School for children with special needs in Sussex . He is also co-founder of Pericles Training and Work, an initiative based on the work of Rudolf Steiner and John Ruskin for adults with special needs and located in West Hoathly, Sussex.

Aileen Falconer
Lay member
Research co-ordinator based at the Camphill Medical Practice, Aberdeen, Aileen is also a visiting lecturer on the BA Curative Education degree course, jointly run by Aberdeen University and Camphill Rudolf Steiner Schools. Educated to doctorate level, she has taught in many learning situations, from non-vocational to undergraduate level. She has ten years experience as a complementary therapist and past involvement with a voluntary self-regulatory body. Her current interests include research and communication about the anthroposophical approach to health and care.

Andrea Damico Gibson
Representative for Eurythmy Therapy
Chair of the Association of Eurythmy Therapists in the UK and eurythmy therapist at the Ilkeston Surgery, which she co-founded in 1997. She is also therapist and teacher at the Iona Rudolf Steiner School in Nottingham and offers regular eurythmy classes to the wider public. Andrea is an active member of the London Eurythmy Stage Group, which performs nationally and in Europe . Previous therapy and teaching posts in the UK include Michael Hall Rudolf Steiner School, St. Thomas 's Psychiatric Unit for Family and Children and a number of Camphill communities for children and adults with special needs. She was also a co-creator of an initiative to bring eurythmy performances of fairytales to schools and prisons in London.

Stefan Geider
Representative for Anthroposophical Medicine
GP Principal at the Camphill Medical Practice in Aberdeen, a fully integrated NHS practice offering anthroposophical medicine and therapies, which has also achieved the Royal College of General Practitioners Quality Practice Award. His particular interests in cancer and learning disabilities encourage a considerable number of referrals from the wider community. He is also Medical Officer for Camphill Rudolf Steiner Schools (CRSS) for children with special needs and is a visiting lecturer on the BA Curative Education degree course, jointly run by Aberdeen University and CRSS. Other teaching interests include child development and horse riding therapy. Prior to undertaking his medical training in Germany, he lived and worked with special needs children in Aberdeen while training in Curative Education.

Cherry How
Representative for Curative Education & Social Therapy
After graduating from Auckland University, New Zealand, she travelled to the UK and joined the Camphill Movement in Glencraig near Belfast in 1972. Since then Cherry has lived and worked in Camphill communities in the north and south of Ireland as a curative educator and social therapist. Her particular interests include training, festivals and the arts, and developing anthroposophical and Camphill initiatives in Ireland.

Karin Jarman
Representative for Anthroposophical Therapeutic Arts
Working as an art therapist at the St. Luke's Medical Practice in Stroud, Karin also runs post-graduate courses and has been teaching art therapy in this country and abroad. She was one of the founder members of the Hibernia School of Art Therapy and the Association of Anthroposophical Art Therapists, of which she is currently chairman. For many years she represented the Hibernia Training to the Medical Section in Dornach and to the European Academy which was set up to accredit Anthroposophical Art Therapy Trainings in Europe. Through this work she has gained insight into the complexities of accreditation and representation. Her impulse is to seek a creative balance between the consciousness-raising that accreditation demands and the safeguarding of the unique quality of spiritual creativity living at the heart of our work.

John Lees
Representative for Counselling and Psychotherapy
A BACP Senior Registered Practitioner, counsellor and supervisor, John currently runs the Masters programme in Therapeutic Counselling at the University of Greenwich. He is a visiting lecturer at the Hibernia School of Artistic Therapy in Gloucestershire and external examiner and lecturer in research at the Tobias School of Art and Therapy at East Grinstead. He has considerable experience in course validation and registration procedures within the healthcare professions in the UK. His current interests lie in the development of anthroposophical research methodology as a rigorous and valid approach to professional research.

Donald Phillips
Representative for Anthroposophical Therapeutic Speech
Anthroposophical therapeutic speech practitioner at the Camphill Medical Practice in Aberdeen, Scotland. Donald trained in voice, speech and drama at The Speech School in West Sussex and received a therapeutic speech qualification from the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland. He previously gained academic qualifications in Biological Sciences and in Vocology in the USA. He has worked with special needs children within the Camphill Rudolf Steiner Schools since 1995 and with patients of the Camphill Medical Practice since 1997, taking up a full-time position with the latter in 2004.

Paul Randon
Lay Member and Honorary Treasurer
Based at Park Attwood Clinic, he works as the Financial Administrator and New Business Development Manager. His background is that he qualified as a Chartered Accountant in South Africa and spent 30 years running his own and family businesses in various fields before moving to Park Attwood. He was appointed to the South African Motor Industries Federation representing fuel retailers. He formed a fuel consultancy business on his return to the UK in 1992 and was an advisor under the Energy Efficiency Best Practice Programme. He has a special interest in entrepreneurial impulses and working with anthroposophical initiatives.

Jack Reed
Representative of the UK Medical Section Liaison Group
Originally trained in state and curative education Jack has had a key initiative-taking role for over 40 years within the curative movement. In 1969 he was a founder of the Garvald Centre in Edinburgh for adult with special needs and directed this initiative until 1996. He was also simultaneously involved with the running and establishment of other Garvald centres. He co-founded of the Minority Ethnic Learning Disabilities Initiative and was a member of the International Council of the Curative Movement from 1981 to 2002. Jack is currently chair of the Curative Education and Social Therapy Association for the UK and Ireland and also a Garvald trustee. He is a member of the Ochil Tower School Council and continues to be involved with other Camphill communities on a national basis. He is also a member of the Scottish Curative Association Committee and the UK Liaison Group of the Medical Section of the School of Spiritual Science.

Ashley Spreadborough
Representative of the Patients' Association for Anthroposophical Medicine (PAFAM)
A civil servant for 9 years, he was previously a teacher of English as
a Foreign Language in Spain.  A recent arrival to things anthroposophical, he sits as the Council's representative from PAFAM, which he has served as Secretary for three years, and recently as Membership Secretary.  As a patient, he has met many complementary therapies, including the Bowen technique, Chinese medicine, Buteyko, and Naturopathy. After missing out this year due to a splenectomy, he hopes to run the London Marathon in 2008 in aid of Park Attwood Friends.

Charles Reynolds
Executive Secretary
A civil servant for 24 years in the Departments of Transport and the Environment, Cabinet Office and the European Commission, he then worked as an international consultant before being recruited by CAHSC in 2004. Governor of Michael Hall, a Steiner Waldorf School in Sussex , 2003-2007 (Chairman of Governors 2005-2007). Currently a member of the Council of The Mount Camphill Community, Sussex.