Having spent about thirty years of my professional life within the corporate world and having had a "first-hand" experience of several of the different stresses that an employee is likely to encounter in such a universe, I believe to be optimally placed to appreciate the constraints that weigh so heavily on employees in their work spaces, often deeply disrupting their overall equilibrium.
I have for many years now been deeply interested in all aspects of workspace psychology and have invested a considerable amount of time during the past 20 years to develop skills in this area. For this reason, I would like to spend the last 10-15 years of my professional life rendering services to those men and women who work in the corporate world. This I would like to do by providing them with a confidential space within which they will be able to unload any of the many concerns that weigh so heavily on them.
The object of providing them with such a “listening space” is to facilitate their journey towards a way of being that will be less overwrought with weighty concerns, regardless of whether or not these specifically relate to their professional lives. Accessorily, my aim will be to provide these men and women with a number of tools that stand to be very useful in helping them achieve a better overall state of equilibrium.
Whilst my professional background makes me tend to want to make my services available foremostly to people wrestling with workspace issues, this does not mean that I will not just as readily make my services available to anyone who may wish to knock on my door, whatever other reasons may possibly be at stake.
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- Personal details
WILLIAM B. WALKER
Born on 11 July 1952
French and American
Married, two children
14 route du Village
CH-1134 Vufflens-le-Château
(021) 800.3515 (home)
(079) 469.3743 (professional)
- Employment
After having interrupted my Trade Finance career
From
Sept. 2016 Counseling and Translations
WBW Counseling and Translation Services, GENEVA
2011 - 2015 Administration and Translations
OJAS S.A., GENEVA
During my 28 years in Trade Finance (Financial Ops)
1985 - 2010 Oil Traffic Operator
(2000 - 2010) VITOL S.A., GENEVA
(1996 - 2000) CARGILL INTERNATIONAL S.A., GENEVA
(1994 - 1996) GALAXY MANAGEMENT S.A., GENEVA
(1988 - 1994) AFRICAN MIDDLE EAST PETROLEUM, MONACO
(1985 - 1988) I.O.C. TRADING LTD. C/O SAMFET, MONACO
1982 - 1985 Credit and Commercial Relations Assistant
(1982 - 1985) BANQUE PARIBAS (SUISSE) S.A., GENEVA
- Training programs leading to Certification / Diplomas
Higher education / Counseling Training Programs (Counseling)
UNIVERSITY STUDIES (Year diploma awarded)
2012 UNIVERSITE AUTONÔME DE LISBONNE, PORTUGAL
Masters in Counseling
1980 MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY, FAIRFIELD / IOWA
BA degree in Interdisciplinary Studies, Educative Psychology specialization
COUNSELING TRAINING PROGRAMS (Training Dates, Institutions, Hours, type of certification)
2014 - 2016 MULTIPLE NATURES INTERNATIONAL, NEWARK
(300 hours) Training workshops in the use of the MN tool / Certified MN practitioner
2006 - 2010 IMAP INSTITUTE (Department of the ODEF INSTITUTE), GENEVA
(800 hours) Training workshops in the use of Psychodrama and Role-Play Facilitation
2005 - 2010 TRAINING SCHOOLS IN NON-VIOLENT COMMUNICATION (NVC)
(300 hours) Training workshops in the use of NVC in one on one Counseling
2005 - 2009 PALO-ALTO INSTITUTES (IGB, LIEGE & ECOLE DU PARADOXE, PARIS)
(300 hours) Training workshops in the use of interactional and systemic therapy
1996 - 1999 CENTRE INTERDISCIPLINAIRE DE FORMATION A LA PSYCHOTHERAPIE
(1300 hours) C.I.F.P. Diploma in multi-referential Psychotherapy
1993 - 1995 PERSON-CENTERED APPROACH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL, LUGANO
(1000 hours) P.C.A.I.I. Diploma in Person Centered Counseling
- Certifying workshops / Psychopathology training sessions
2010 - 2011 SARL FORMATION EVOLUTION ET SYNERGIE, AVIGNON
(100 hours) SARL FORMATION EVOLUTION ET SYNERGYE certificate in Psychopathology training
2007 - 2008 PERSON-CENTERED APPROACH INSTITUTE FRANCE, VEIGY-FONCENNEX
(120 hours) P.C.A.I.F. certificate in Psychopathology training
- Counseling affiliations
Where my Counseling Services are concerned, please find here below my primary affiliations:
The Carl Rogers’ PCA:
The PCAIF: It was by this institute that I fulfilled my PCA training more than 20 years ago now. Additionally I have during the past 10 years now participated in the Rhône-Alpes PCA Supervision Group. This institute thus very clearly represents my most fundamental professional affiliation where my Counseling practice is concerned. Moreover, it was in the fall of 2016 that I was for the first time called upon to co-facilitate a PCA PCAIF training session.
The Existential Approach:
The Maharishi International University (Fairfield) and the Anamay Vedic Retreat Center (Kausani): It was at Maharishi International University in Fairfield (USA) that for the first time (1974-1980) I set about seriously studying Vedic Science as taught by one of the most illustrious custodians of this tradition, the great sage Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Maharishi Vedic Knowledge thus very clearly stands out as being my foremost affiliation with regards to spiritual knowledge. Thereafter, whenever I needed to explore and perfect my understanding of “existential possibilities” as evoked in the Vedic texts, it was to my university experience that I firstly and foremostly referred myself to. Moreover, since 2008, in order to remain up to date with or perfect my knowledge in this field, I have been maintaining close and regular ties with the Anamay Vedic retreat Center. This is the foundation I can rely upon whenever a need arises for me to engage in meaningful "existential" dialogues during Counseling.
The Palo-Alto School:
The LACT Cabinet: My association with a number institutes proclaiming themselves as belonging to the Palo-Alto School movement dates back more than 10 years now. The Gregory Bateson Institute in Liège, the Paradox School in Paris, the Center for Strategic Therapy in Arezzo and the Mental Research Institute in Palo-Alto are among these. My association with the LACT Cabinet started back in 2014 and has become to most logical one for me to nourish given that it strives to unite all these entities under a common research program which aims at quantifying the effectiveness of the Systemic and Interactional Palo Alto intervention model.
Multiple Natures:
MULTIPLE NATURES INTERNATIONAL CORP.: My association with the company created by my colleague and friend Steven Rudolph (which I often translate when he works in France or Switzerland) began back in 2014. In investing myself into the various activities that aim to make this tool available throughout Europe, I truly feel that I have joined a community of people dedicated to promoting the well-being and overall balance of people from all walks of life.
- Translation affiliations
Where my Counseling Services are concerned, due to my having learned and begun to practice these activities spontaneously without receiving any formal training, the affiliations that I have with this world simply relate to my usual clientele, in particular: the Ramakrishna Vedantic Center in Gretz-Armainvilliers, the Terre du Ciel Association in Chardenoux (Burgundy), the Association A Ciel Ouvert Association in Pierre-Châtel (Ain), and the Multiple Natures International Corp. in Newark (New Jersey, USA).