Ksenija Napan
Ksenija was born in Zagreb which was then part of Yugoslavia and is currently the capital of Croatia. Aotearoa is her country of choice and a place where she learnt more about her culture and her Indigenous than during 33 years of living in Zagreb. Hence the introduction in te reo Māori. In the late ninety eighties, she attended her first William Glasser workshop and in 1996 she became a senior faculty member for the International Institute and has taught in Croatia and New Zealand. The final stage of her choice theory education was supervised and assessed by William Glasser himself who noted in his evaluation of her work: “Ksenija, you do not only teach this stuff, you truly live it!”
Ksenija is a registered social worker in Aotearoa, New Zealand, holds a master’s degree in social psychiatry, and a PhD in social work education. In her thesis, she has utilised William Glasser’s ideas in developing a creative and novel method of teaching and learning social work where social work clients are invited to contribute to social work education.She is employed at Massey University, School of Social Work as an associate professor and in her spare time she provides professional supervision to social workers, counsellors and teachers and explores animal-assisted learning and therapy. She is also interested in bridging seemingly opposing polarities like science and spirituality, fun and learning, Indigenous wisdom and advancements of Western science, and human and other-than-human existence.
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- Ksenija is a hopeless optimist and provides basic, advanced and certification education in Choice Theory as well as short courses related to challenging issues in education, social work and other helping professions that can be co-created at your request.
North Shore in Auckland, New Zealand
Contact me021 2983853
ksenijanapan@gmail.comor K.Napan@massey.ac.nz
Current offerings include but are not limited to: Peer-supervision, Dealing with challenging situations, I am a teacher, not a therapist – why do I need to deal with this? They are not what they used to be – why are kids in my classroom so wild? Basic needs and how to address them with grace and integrity, Quality world, Motivation – where it lives and where it goes? My, your, their, our Indigenous, Being in the flow and being in touch, Growing respectful relationships, Recognising abuse and harm prevention.I a paragraph. Drag me to add paragraph to your block, write your own text and edit me.