The REGIONAL AMBASSADOR is a vital position, working with the Publisher to identify, contact, introduce, invite and share research, news and information from their respective part of the globe that is so necessary to share with the readers of Contemporary Family.
MEET OUR REGIONAL AMBASSADORS
Pediatrician at the Insubria Health Protection Agency. His research titled “The European Children and the Divorce of Their Parents” was presented to the European Parliament and to the UN.
From Kharkiv, Ukraine, he leads CO “COPA”, a Ukrainian advocacy organization to initiate changes in Ukrainian legislation to assure parents of shared parenting and enforcement of visitation. (PASG).
An alienated parent who has been fighting for seven years to be able to communicate with his youngest daughter. I am a co-owner of a publishing house and a printing house.
Contact: semenngen@gmail.com
Ricardo is a father and brings an extensive background in concert promoting, with special training in cultural management and sociological perspectives.
He is a contributor to the new book,“Uma familia, duas casas” by SOFIA MARINHO, PHD, and SÓNIA VLADIMIRA CORREIA, PHD that addresses shared physical custody.
He also is President of the Board of the Portuguese Equal Parenting and Children’s Rights Association.
Igualdaldeparental@gmail.com OR ricardo.simoes@igualdadeparental.org
Frances is an educator and PhD candidate who in 2021 joined with 5 other mums to create Recover Our Kids. This growing organization has sought to lobby the House of Lords (UK) supporting Baroness Meyer to have PA included in the Domestic Abuse Bill. A victim of coercive control and then an alienated mother 10 years later, Frances knows the pain of divorce as a mum and the hardships of single parenting, the ordeal of the Family Court, and finally the hopelessness of losing a child in such a horrendous manner. Now, reunited with her daughter, she offers parents hope not to give up. A child advocate, Frances “is determined to shine a light on this heinous abuse that crushes the soul of both the child and the targeted parent.”
Trish Guise, MBA is a High Conflict Divorce Strategist and a New Ways for Families® Coach, trained by Bill Eddy, co-founder of The High Conflict Institute. Trish has over 20 years of experience coaching and training entrepreneurs, corporate employees, and post-secondary students in communication and conflict resolution skills.
After experiencing her own high conflict divorce and parental alienation Trish now counsels parents on how to communicate with their high conflict ex-spouse, while protecting themselves and their children from abuse and alienation. Working in conjunction with researchers, advocates, lawyers, psychologists and social workers. Trish hopes to see significant changes in how the law protects children from alienation.
Trish will be featured in 100 Women of Inspiration coming out this fall and will be featured on a cross Canada tour commencing on March 8, 2021, International Women’s Day.
Visit Trish’s website at www.trishguise.com
Martina Cirbusová, PhD (The Czech Republic) Martina is a graduate of the Faculty of Law at Masaryk
University in Brno, The Czech Republic and is currently head of the Transformative Mediation Center in
Brno, Czech Republic, where she leads a team of 14 mediators.
She also leads a Family and Marriage therapy practice in Brno. Globally, she works as a lecturer, facilitator of family conferences, mediator and methodologist in many areas of interdisciplinary cooperation of subjects in family dispute resolution.
Since April 2019, she has been a certified transformative mediator working with its founder, Dan Simon in US.
Borja Branova (United Arab Emirates, Spain) – Borja Brañanova, United
Arab Emirates, Spain – An engineer who lives and works in Dubai, UAE. Borja is involved in helping to bring the education of alienation to the UAE where the legal system, the social support mechanisms and the cultural background enable and do not accept (yet) the reality of parental alienation.
He hopes to support a solid campaign at national and international levels
to promote the development of family laws for the best interests of the future of humanity.
Visit Borja’s website: https://foranychildren.org/
Mary Gauci is President of Malta’s Technical Committee on Parental Alienation; Principal at Sedqa Prevention Services at The Foundation for Social Welfare Services – Gozo Branch Operations; Juvenile Court Expert on Social Care; Producer and Presenter on the Public Broadcasting Services Radio; Member of the Gozo Regional Development Authority; Feature/opinion writer on Torċa – one of Malta’s most popular newspapers. Mary serves on the Malta Parental Alienation committee, Happy Parenting – Malta, a community-based organization that has as its main goal the wellbeing of those children who find themselves being alienated from one of their parents and the improvement of the parent-child relationships. Mary and her daughter are honored in the Contemporary Family’s Winter 2021/2 Issue. (Preview it here!)
Vesta Spivakovsky is an alienated mother, an activist and a psychotherapist. Her new book, Louder Than Silence, is based on her meetings with hundreds of other parents who separated from their kids and is the first documentary evidence of Parental Alienation in Russia. I am working on my next book about co-parenting as an opposition to PA. Says Vesta, “Unfortunately, Co-parenting is still considered abnormal in Russia.” Now residing in the US, she is committed to help improve the status of child custody in Russia.
Contact: vestaspy@gmail.com
Brian is the Co-director of the first European accredited Post Graduate Certificate in Parental Alienation Studies. He has completed the only published study exploring the lived experiences of alienated parents in Ireland. He has been published nationally and internationally regarding PA. He is often asked to act as an expert witness in complex private family law proceedings where parental alienation is considered to be a factor.
He has been successfully reconnecting children and young
people with alienated parents in Ireland for several years.
He can be contacted at brian@parentalalienation.eu
Mra Anirban Sinha is a Men’s Rights Activist and entrepreneur
from Kolkata, India. He has worked in the corporate sector with major brand corporations for more than 18 years. Anirban is active with All Bengal Men’s Forum (A Registered NGO) founded in 2017 as Bengal’s first hub for the Health and Wellbeing of Boys, Men and Fathers providing services, research, advocacy, thought leadership, outreach and public education on all aspects of men’s issues. It’s Centre offers Therapy and
counseling, peer support, a Legal Clinic, Fathering Programs, and Mentorship and Support Services for Male Victims of Trauma and Violence.
Contact: anirbans1982@gmail.com
Fahad Ahmad Siddiqqi is a managing attorney with Qadeer Ahmad Siddiqi Law Associates in Lahore. His practice is gained from the experience and guidance of his late father, Qadeer Ahmad Siddiqi, a High Court Advocate in the field of child custody in Pakistan and noted authority on the issues of shared parenting. As his father, Fahad is engaged in court and legislative education of the courts in Pakistan which has constitutionally based family laws yet inherited from a century’s old British legal system from their regional Colonial era. Visit www.cclsip.com for more details.
Contact: qaslaw@gmail.com
