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Don Barnard was born in Fort William Ontario in 1969 to an Ojibwe /  Metis / White family. As a child he had his share of  hardships because of his race. However, his many challenges also stem  from his neuro-development makeup. He was born and later diagnosed with  Autism, Obsessive compulsive Disorder, learning disabilities and  extremely high IQ. All of these components affected his life in a  profound manner and added to the layer of complexities for him and for  those around him. Despite all of his challenges Don is determined to use  his personal experiences to help and bring healing to people around  him.   Don’s superb photography skills are evident in the captivating  photos he has produced over the years of his career. He has published  his work in every home and garden magazine in Canada and in gothic  magazines all over the world.  Don takes his professional tasks very seriously and thrive to  achieve the best results for every project whether it is private or  corporate.  During his career he provided video and photography services for  companies such as Manitoba Rolling Mills, Gerdeau Ameristeel, Mandak,  Para Paints, Never Again Productions, Infilm Productions and more.

Solly Dreman is Professor Emeritus in Clinical Psychology at Ben Gurion   University,  He was Director of Center for Family Research and  Counselling from 1980-1995 and  of the Graduate Program in Clinical  Psychology from 1990-95. Professor Dreman is one of the leading  researchers and practitioner in the field of family studies and  intervention with particular expertise  in the area of single parent  families. He has chaired five national and international conferences  He   has also studied and treated families who are victims of terrorism,  the effects of war on family dynamics and how psychosomatic and other  illness affect the family. Dreman was a Fulbright Scholar at the Medical  School at the University of California in San Francisco in 1977-78. He  was also the Chief Psychologist of the Jerusalem Brigade during the Yom  Kippur War in 1973. Currently he is the Senior Psychologist in Family  Therapy at the Uri Center for ADHD and ADD Disorders  in Jerusalem as  well as a Senior Psychologist for a National Hotline Service for people  suffering from mental distress (ERAN).  He  is on the board of a  national organization dealing with Treatment of the Elderly.(Eidan) in  Israel  Dreman has published three books and over 60 articles during his  career and has been on the Editorial Board of  the Journal of Divorce  and Remarriage for over 15 years. .

  Dr. Brom is clinical psychologist and founding director of the Israel Center for the Treatment of Psychotrauma of Herzog Hospital in Jerusalem, Israel.  Brom is originally from the Netherlands, where he founded a psychotrauma center. He is the initiator and former chairman of the Israel Trauma Coalition. In his position of Director at ICTP, he has brought his expertise to the fields of education, community resilience, health, and mental health care to increase the capacity of Israeli society to cope with the ongoing existential threat. Among his work is the oversight of academic research of the prevalence and condition of post traumatic stress disorder among combat soldiers in the Israeli Defense Forces.  

Israel Charny received his A.B. in Psychology with Distinction from Temple University in 1952, and his. Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Rochester in 1957. He established and directed the first group psychological practice in the Philadelphia area (1958–1973), where he was also the first Professor of Psychology at the newly founded Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia.  An affiliate of the Institute for the Study of Genocide, the International Association of Genocide Scholars was founded in 1994 by Israel. He has been devoted to the study of the Holocaust and genocide. Charny, a clinical psychologist and practicing psychotherapist, was Professor of Psychology and Family Therapy a  the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Relli Robinson was born in 1939 in Warsaw, Poland to Franka (nee  Fersztendik) and Michał Głowinski. By living under an assumed identity  with Polish rescuers, Janina and Jȯzef Abramowicz, she was the only  member of her family to survive the Warsaw Ghetto. From 1950, she lived  in Israel with her father’s family, and she graduated from Kfar Hayarok  Agricultural High School before serving in the IDF engineering corps and  in the navy. She studied at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at UCLA  in Los Angeles, and subsequently held senior academic administration  positions at The University of Haifa in Israel, including administrative  head of the welfare and health sciences faculty. Her novel Raking Light from Ashes relates  the true story of her survival during the dark days of the Second World  War. Published in Hebrew in 2011, the novel won a grant from the  Israeli Ministry of Culture to be translated into English. She is  currently a resident of Haifa, Israel, and she has a son and daughter  and six grandchildren.