Diana Whitmore

Trustee, Trainer

Foundations

Diana has founded and directed three successful charities over a forty-year period, has designed and delivered professional training in the fields of business coaching, psychotherapy and counselling and youth work. 

Diana is Founder Co-CEO of Growing2gether, a Charity which works with young people and is a resilience- based youth mentoring programme, which raises self-esteem, aspiration and educational attainment whilst re-engaging young people with their communities.  Until 2016 she was a Founding Director of Power 2, to address the social exclusion of young people and  in doing so, reduce the number of young people not in employment, education or training (NEET). 

She is Founder and a current trustee of the Psychosynthesis Trust.  For twenty-five years she was Chairperson of the Trust, Joint Chief Executive, Head of Professional Courses and a Senior Trainer and Supervisor in psychosynthesis.  Having practised psychosynthesis for over 40 years, she has trained professionals throughout Europe, and consults on research and development of new projects in positive psychology. 

She is accredited by the UKCP National Register of Psychotherapists, a BACP Accredited Senior Supervisor and a founding member of the Association for Accredited Psychospiritual Psychotherapists.  She was on the trustee board of the Findhorn Foundation from 1994 – 2012. She is the author of two books, Psychosynthesis in Education: A Guide to the Joy of Learning and Psychosynthesis Counselling in Action. 

Her background includes didactic training with Roberto Assagioli, the founder of Psychosynthesis.  She trained in Humanistic Psychology at the Esalen Institute, California and she has a MA in Confluent Education, University of California. 

Diana says: “As a student of Roberto Assagioli in the period just preceding his death, I was moved by his mission to put the soul back into psychology, which led to my taking over the Psychosynthesis & Education Trust. The Trust was revitalised in honour of Assagioli’s vision that for we human beings to truly flourish and experience fulfilment from life, psychology needed to include the soul – the place in each of us where we find meaning and purpose and a deeper sense of well-being. I have been delighted to see the Trust flourish and grow to be a respected professional training programme”. 

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