Esther and William Diplock are down-to-earth, experienced therapists who get it—relationships can be amazing, but they can also be stressful, confusing, and frustrating at times. With over 50 years of combined experience in counselling, and workshop facilitation, they’ve helped countless men, women and couples cut through the noise and find real, practical ways to build stronger, more connected relationships. As co-founders of Resonance Together and creators of the ENGAGE for Thriving Relationships program, they specialize in straightforward, real-world strategies that actually help relationships thrive—without the therapy jargon or endless talking.

They are senior trainers and facilitators for Gender Equity and Reconciliation International (GERI) and co-authors in Gender Equity and Reconciliation: Thirty Years of Healing the Most Ancient Wound in the Human Family. Based in Brisbane, Australia, they are deeply committed to nurturing their own relationship and love starting each day with a waterfront walk with their dog.

David and Noni Yates are a husband-and-wife team who bring a unique blend of lived experience, professional insight, and trauma-informed education to their work with individuals, couples, and communities. Together, they specialise in relational integrity, accountability, and the healing of betrayal trauma within families. 

Noni and David’s work combine grounded honesty, clinical understanding, and a commitment to supporting men in becoming safe, accountable, and emotionally connected leaders in their homes and communities. 

Together they co-authored their memoir Beyond Betrayal 28 Years; Lies–Deceit–Infidelity, giving a raw and honest account of the journey to, through and beyond betrayal. 

Noni works as primary counsellor in her private practice Affair Recovery Counselling, she is an Apsats Certified Clinical Partner Specialist and they have both completed Levels 1-3 in the DST model with Dr Omar Minwalla. 

Elham Day is a is a grief and death care specialist, background in hospice, palliative care, and bereavement support based in Magandjin/Brisbane. As a counsellor, professional supervisor, and grief practitioner with a with many years of experience walking alongside individuals, families, and communities through death, grief and loss – elham draws from existential, depth and soulful approaches to grief work with a special interest in the transformative role that grief ritual and support processes can hold for community wellbeing.  

Jarrod McKenna is an award-winning peace activist, and community organiser whose life and work reflect a deep commitment to nonviolence, justice, and compassion. Drawing inspiration from contemplative traditions, the Peace Church movements, the Catholic Worker ethos, and the prophetic Black Church tradition, Jarrod has worked alongside marginalized communities, including those who are unhoused, imprisoned, detained, or seeking refuge.

His advocacy for human rights and climate justice has been featured by international outlets such as the BBC, Al-Jazeera, and The Guardian, and his grassroots efforts have inspired transformative movements like “Love Makes A Way,” Australia’s largest faith-based nonviolent civil disobedience initiative. As a pastor in Melbourne and Perth, and co-host of the InVerse Podcast with Dr. Drew Hart, Jarrod continues to challenge and inspire others to reimagine contemplation and action in the pursuit of justice.

Jarrod lives on Wadjuk Noongar land in Perth, Australia, with his wife Kat and their five sons, who are his greatest teachers.

Richard Rohr has said of Jarrod McKenna, “It’s amazing that we should need to tell people that Jesus taught and surely lived a nonviolent life. And almost as amazing—and wonderful—that Jarrod McKenna should be able to teach it so well in our time and culture.”

David Tensen is an Australian poet, author, and teacher known for his evocative and soulful writing. Blending elements of personal experience, spirituality, and deep empathy, David’s poetry has gained widespread acclaim for its capacity to touch the human spirit – offering readers solace and connection in times of struggle and growth. With a background in leadership, pastoral care, and emotional healing, David brings a unique blend of compassion and insight to his craft, which is evident in both his public speaking and four published collections. David is married to Natalie, has 3 young adult children, and lives on the Sunshine Coast where he currently spends his work-week in aged care chaplaincy, lecturing, and completing a PhD at UniSC.

Discover more at www.davidtensen.com

Dom Fay is a radio announcer, podcaster, and Head of Faith & Spirituality (Secondary) at Coomera Anglican College.

 Alongside co-hosting the Zach & Dom show on the KIIS Network, Dom also hosts podcasts exploring two of his great passions – emergent spirituality (On The Way) & the Brisbane Lions (The Roar Deal).

Neville Starick is a qualified and experienced educator and counsellor, specialising in working with tradies, professionals and business owners navigating significant life change.  Having experienced and reflected on his own health challenges, relocations, relationship reconfigurations and career redirections, Neville recognises how overwhelming life change can be, and how easily responses to change are misunderstood. He provides in-person and online support for those whose worlds have been overturned, helping them to get back on an even keel and to create a good life beyond the messiness of transition.  He completed his Rites of Passage in 2014.  Neville lives with his wife on the border of New South Wales and Victoria, just across the Murray River from Mildura, Victoria.  Outside of work, he enjoys keeping fit, reading good fiction, writing poetry as the mood strikes, travelling to new places, and having long meandering conversations over a coffee.

Darren founded, and officially launched ‘Fathering Adventures’ in July 2008.

Until then, Darren had worked in the construction / consulting engineering industry since 1988, and managed his own structural design & drafting service since 2000.

In his spare time, as the need arose, Darren helped to counsel individuals & relationships out of the pain of their past, into restoration, freedom, and life.He agrees with what sociologists and anthropologists have discovered after studying cultures around the world and down through the ages… “As goes the men; so goes the society”.For this reason, he has continued to lead men toward the path of authentic manhood… helping them to face and resolve wounds from their past, and equipping and empowering them to lead successful lives as men… both in their workplaces, and in their homes, as husbands and fathers… encouraging them to be all they desire to be.He has done this one-on-one, in small groups, men’s retreats, and other various speaking engagements, for more than 25 years now.He has also led by example… overcoming the challenges a child growing up in an alcoholic home brings.

Just before Fathers Day in 2011, Darren had the great honour and privilege of being awarded the title of Queensland Father of the Year at a Luncheon in the State’s Capital.

Darren has been married to his wife Melissa since 1991. They live in Townsville, in Tropical North Queensland, Australia, and have 4 adult sons. Darren believes in living what he teaches, so his spare-time is usually devoted to intentional one-on-one time with his beloved wife Melissa, each of their sons, their two daughters-in-law, and their 3 precious grandchildren.

Melissa describes Darren as being “honest, intelligent, discerning, trustworthy, loving, compassionate, hard-working, self-motivated, self-disciplined, self-sacrificing, honourable, and courageous”.

Neil has been married for 40 years and has 4 sons between the ages of 22 and 34. Having trained as a counsellor in the UK in the 1990s, 

Neil has nearly 30 years’ experience counselling individuals and couples through relationship issues. He currently has a private counselling practice on the Gold Coast, is a seasoned lecturer and clinical supervisor and presenter.

Dom Fay is a broadcaster, a podcaster, and a comedian. He is currently one half of the comedy duo Zach & Dom, heard nightly on the KIIS Radio Network around Australia, and also co-host of AFL podcast The Roar Deal and spirituality podcast On The Way. Alongside his media work, Dom is also employed at an Anglican school as Faith & Spirituality Coordinator, working alongside high school students as they wrestle with the big questions of life, faith, identity, and meaning. He has recently created Private Speaking, a card game to move people into deeper conversations.

For many years Joel McKerrow has been holding together the tension of being a Father and a husband, as well as a full-time creative. He is a writer, performer, poet, educator, speaker, podcaster, university lecturer and a host of other things. Before poetry took over his life Joel was running courses in identity and spiritual formation and now spends much of his work focussing on the intersection between creativity and spirituality. Joel has five published books as well as five spoken word/music albums. He is the director of The School for Creative Development and is the artist ambassador for TEARFUND Australia

Janet is a Clinical Counsellor in her private practice “Camino Counselling”. She has been connected with Centre for Men and Families for over a decade and has led women’s groups in various capacities for thirty years. After completing a Women’s Rights of Passage in North Carolina in 2024 Janet pioneered “The Camino Women’s Journey” last year with a small group of women. This is a yearlong course commencing with a weekend retreat and followed by six circles throughout the year inviting women to connect, reflect, heal and move towards greater authenticity. Married for 35 years, Janet is a mother of five daughters and has three grandchildren. 

Janet will be joined by her daughter Rebekah who, in her late twenties, has considerable life experience, a deep understanding of the challenges and differences that women of her generation face and a maturity and depth of self-awareness that belies her age. 

Richard Fay is a psychotherapist and spiritual director in private practice in Brisbane, specialising in adult presentation of childhood attachment trauma and men’s mental health. 

Richard is married and has three adult sons, and is unreasonably bonkers about the Brisbane Lions. Richard is an ambassador for the Centre for Men and Families and a past CEO of CFMF. 

Dan Foster is the CEO of the Centre for Men & Families and has a passion for providing safe places for men to process their emotional wounds, to overcome trauma in a deep and profound way.  In his professional life, he has worked as a youth worker, school teacher, and pastor. He pioneered a work for young men to engage them in ritual work that helps to deepen their maturity and gives them a framework to process their pain. He is a prolific and passionate blogger and poet. He and his wife Ann-Marie are raising three children and are forging a path together through the complex word of understanding adolescent minds.

Robert has learnt to love himself so he can love others. He loves communing in nature at the beach and in the bush. He specialises in supporting others to understand who they truly are with the help of Counselling, Coaching and Mentoring one on one and in educational group webinars. Robert is a clinical registrant of The Psychotherapy And Counselling Federation of Australia and a Certified Coach with The Morter Institute in the USA. He is an Elder through Mens Wellbeing Inc.

David Cluff is a husband, father, grandfather, and an experienced counselor and trauma psychotherapist with over a decade of post-graduate experience. His counseling background spans the not-for-profit sector, sessional lecturing, and private practice. David has a deep fascination with understanding the impact of traumatic events, attachment trauma, and grief on an individual’s sense of self and daily functioning. He is particularly passionate about exploring, studying, and applying effective remedial therapies to support healing and recovery.

I am a passionate lover of nature in all its forms, in particular human nature.  I love to see the potential released all things from buildings I have worked on as a tradesperson, old furniture and houses I have restored and renovated and people who I walk with as a therapist and guide.

I work in ways that are nature-based and wholeness-focussed, not merely wanting people to not be struggling, but rather creating the conditions for thriving:  Uncovering gifts and living them into the world.

I am a husband of 26 years, Father of 4 grown children, Businessman for 25 years, Tradesman, Counsellor (Since 2008), Group Facilitator & Soul Work Guide.  I have been involved in Centre for Men since 2004, as a counsellor, Group facilitator, retreat leader, Board member & MROP Elder.

Tim Rose is a qualified Counsellor and Creative Arts Therapist with a passion for body-based practice and movement, Somatics, and expressing with the body that which is occurring within.  

 With a long-standing background in the people-helping field including pastoral ministry, twelve-step recovery work, trauma recovery, and lived experience peer support, Tim is a deeply intuitive practitioner.  Coupled with his contrasted lived experience, Tim brings a very rich and diverse collection of skills and abilities to his collaborative working with others which leads to his unique embodied facilitation.

 Tim resides in Melbourne, Victoria, and is an author and poet, self-confessed ‘fussy foodie,’ and ‘group junkie.’  In his personal time, Tim enjoys writing, music and film, photography, architecture, cooking, dining out, and the ‘other’ love of his life – Lego.

Phil Cox is a listener, learner, thinker, and communicator with a deep curiosity about life in all its complexity—its devastating wounds, its ecstatic joys, and the Spirit that holds it all together. As a Spiritual Director, he creates spaces where people can share the fullness of their stories, be heard without judgment, and reflect on their lives with honesty and depth.

Phil is especially passionate about helping men find the freedom to live courageously from their deepest and most authentic selves.

He lives in Brisbane with his wife, Suz, and their three children, Aria, Porter, and Levi. A lifelong baseball fan, he follows the Atlanta Braves with devotion. He is also captivated by the music and poetry of Bob Dylan and Ryan Adams and can occasionally be found behind a drum kit whenever the opportunity arises.