Reflections and published writings from 50 years as a teacher on the nature of the mythopoetic classroom.

This is a novel, with unexpected twists, about a granddaughter and student, Harriet Henderson, in some ways an introvert happiest writing in her journal, but open, too, to adventure and friendship. The novel is available as ebook and paperback over on Amazon. The best way to navigate your way through the chapters is by using the Table of Contents below.

Published in 1987 by Penguin/McPhee Gribble, this is the story of four students at a progressive school in Canberra. I follow them through their experiences of school and then through an extraordinary simulation, a medieval village in the classroom. I'm publishing chapters at the rate of about one a fortnight.

Published books and articles

This is the novel I'm currently writing. A first draft has been close to being finished for ... a long time! I'm hoping to have it done before the end of 2025.

Published and unpublished stories written over the past 40 years

My PhD thesis (2000), where I reflect on the nature of storytelling, both in psychotherapy and in general. What is happening when one person tells a story to another? And how might an adequate answer to this question change the approach of a psychotherapist (or teacher or colleague)? This is a creative thesis, written as a story of a psychotherapist (me), a troubled adolescent (Joseph) and a supervisor (Giles Clark).