Trustees

Suzanne Bergne

Suzanne studied Philosophy, English Literature and Media Studies at Munich and Vienna universities.  She married a British Diplomat, had 2 children, and lived and worked for 35 years in the Middle and Far East. During that time she trained and worked as an artist potter and exhibited in Europe and Japan.

In 2006 she qualified as a Jungian Psychotherapist with the Guild of Analytical Psychologists, where she continues to work as a Case-supervisor and Seminar Leader.  She has a private practice near Stow on the Wold and in Chelsea, London.

Suzanne is also an Advanced Candidate with the British Irish Sandplay Society. In the past she served as a Trustee with the Substance Misuse Services, Gloucestershire.

As a trustee of G.A.P. she feels that her international perspective, which is firmly based on a spiritual attitude to life, will prove helpful to the organisation as it continues to evolve.

Jim Fitzgerald

After completing an M.A. in Ancient Classics at University College Cork, Jim came to live in London, initially to do research for a Ph.D. in Byzantine Greek.  He worked for some years in Administration in University College London, before becooming a Primary School teacher in inner London schools.  With many years of Jungian Analysis behind him, he decided to retrain as an analyst at the C.G. Jung institute in Zurich.  Returning to London, he began practice as an analyst, joining G.A.P. in its early days, and also IGAP.  He has previously served as a Trustee for G.A.P. and as a Chair for the C.G. Jung Analytical Psychology Club London.  Much of Jim\\'s time has been spent teaching, giving lectures and workshops, and in running reading groups.

Geoffrey Matthews

Geoffrey's professional experience over the last 25 years has been almost exclusively in management positions in not for profit organisations.  He is currently Secretary of the Chelsea Arts Club in which role he acts as the interface between the Club's 4,000 members and the Trustees and Council of the Club, as well as acting as Chief Executive of the Trading Company which operates the Club on the Members' behalf.  During his life he has occupied a wide variety of pro bono, non-executive positions in organisations like St. Charles' Sixth Form College, the London Library and Battersea Arts Centre.  He is currently a member of the Governance Committee of the Mercers' Charitable Foundation; on the Council of Gresham College; on the arts committee of the Mercers Company and the MCC; and a director of National Theatre Enterprises Ltd.

Melanie Rein

Melanie is currently a founding trustee of Women's Heartbeat, a charity set up to raise awareness of women's heart conditions. Previously, she was also a trustee and Chair of trustees for G.A.P.

Between 1989 and 2004 she worked with a number of organisations in the UK and in Central and Eastern Europe assisting them in change management processes.  This work included leading and managing projects for the EU and the British Government.  She also led a research project in South Africa and Zambia on cross sector partnerships.

While training with G.A.P. and during the initial stages of setting up her analytic practice she was Deputy Director of the NIHR Research Design Service for the East of England.

In her earlier career she undertook training in the dynamics of groups at the Institute of Group Analysis as well as training in systems theory and its applications to families and organisations at the Institute of Family Therapy.

Melanie's PhD, entitled 'Aspects of the Feminine in Business: A Jungian perspective', focussed on unconscious processes in large companies.