Billy Hardy
The Family Institute,
University of South Wales,
Pontypridd, Wales UK
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Billy started working at the Family Institute in the late 1990’s following many years working in the UK National Health Service, Psychiatric services. Prior to working at the Family Institute he was teaching at Swansea University in the field of Mental Health Nursing.
He was the course leader for the MSc in Systemic Psychotherapy and taught on this course since 1998 as well as contributing to other postgraduate and undergraduate programs offered by the Family Institute. Billy also worked as a family therapist at the family Institute which had its own independent therapy service here in Wales, UK.
He had been working for many years developing systemic thinking and practice in many different contexts through organizational consultancy and teaching, particularly in the not for profit sector in Wales. He was working on a number of projects in counseling , psychotherapy, equine assisted therapies, and mental health. He was a doctoral researcher at University of Bedfordshire’s Professional doctorate program and had started working with Taos Europe. He co-edited with Ottar Ness a special edition a European Journal drawing on the Taos Institute collaboration in Drammen, Norway during 2014. He hoped for future collaborations and was interested in sustainability of human services, whole persons learning, narrative research and the broad area of biographical methods, as well working with organizations across professional disciplines, boundaries and territories real or imagined.
