Joe Bailey

Since being asked by then President, Paul Beard, to join Council as Treasurer in 1980, Joe has supported five successors as Council’s most tenured officer. 

Having achieved Associate Membership of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, he then served four years’ wartime service overseas before pursuing varied business interests over some 30 years. 

In the late 1950s, Joe experienced dramatic relief from chronic debilitating pain. Harry Edwards’ healing abilities inspired Joe and his wife Eileen to pursue fifteen years’ intensive investigation into all matters spiritual and psychic.  An early Samaritan, Joe trained with Chad Varah, serving as a volunteer for thirteen years before counselling professionally at Westminster Pastoral Foundation for 25 years. 

Georgiana Barrowcliff

Georgiana was first introduced to the College in the late 1970s, on attending psychic development classes with Elizabeth Farrell.  That experience awakened a deep interest in both spiritual and personal growth that continues to this day.

Her first career was in arts administration, but her ten-year tenure at the Arts Council was followed by a desire to take time out to raise her children. The College’s inspiration eventually informed the next step of Georgiana’s career path, and in 1993 she decided to seek out a healing profession. 

Having completed specialist training, Georgiana now practices Five-Element Acupuncture, a system of medicine that can open the door to profound personal transformation and healing through systemically treating the mind, body and spirit. 

Christine Bryon

Christine joined the College in 1979, and was a longstanding volunteer librarian and a receptionist for the healing clinic.  A member of the distant-healing group and a psychic-development student, she was asked to join Council in 1988.  Serving as an officer of considerable tenure, she is also heavily involved in the shaping of the College’s termly programme of events. 

Having practiced as a solicitor and law partner for many years in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, her speciality was property law.  She later left private practice to pursue a BA in Religious Studies at Kings College, London. 

Christine presently works part-time as the Company Secretary of a London property company.

Stephen Chapman

Stephen has been a member of the College since 1985, and has attended various workshops and psychic-development classes during that time.  In addition to this, he also served as a volunteer librarian for many years. 

Having been asked to join Council in 2004, Stephen’s background in commercial property law has informed the decision-making of its members as charitable trustees.

A solicitor and law partner in private practice, his career includes experience as a consultant as well as the in-house lawyer for the Holmes Place Health Clubs franchise, where he was in charge of the development of health clubs both in the United Kingdom and Europe.

Marita Crawley

Marita joined the College in 1989, and studied psychic development with Elizabeth Farrell. She became a Council member in 1993, and is on the editorial board of ‘Light’ magazine.

After school Marita trained in ballet and drama, and then worked in the editorial department of Vogue for two years.  She became a mime artist, performing her one-woman show around the world.   Having founded and run The Mime Centre, Marita is presently a freelance writer and lyricist.  Most recently, she has written a children’s musical and a libretto for an opera on Pushkin. 

In addition to serving on Council, Marita is also a trustee of eight other charitable organisations. 

Max Eames

Max responded actively to the need to address the College’s evolving statutory responsibilities, and was made a Vice President in 2004, then President. A member of the College since the late 1980s, Max studied psychic development with Suzanna McInerney and is a BACP accredited counsellor/psychotherapist trained in Roberto Assagioli’s psychosynthesis approach. 

Having grown up in California, Max emigrated after completing an honours degree in Italy.  His varied career includes experience as a lecturer, chartered architect and restaurateur. Within the North Star Group, a team of communication specialists, his work facilitates long-lasting personal transformations. 

‘Wealth Mechanic’, Max’s first book, is a solution-focused exploration of self-limiting beliefs and self-defeating behaviours in relation to chronic ‘problem spending’. 

Sue Greenwood

Sue joined the College after five years in the USA and Canada whilst commuting to Singapore and London.  A life-long seeker, she is a seasoned traveller whose skills as a certified life, transition, and performance coach has enhanced the skill-set of the College’s trustees. 

Having commenced her career in acting, directing and tutoring classical mime, she then spent more than twenty years in Asia, specialising in broadcasting and government skills-development. 

An accomplished voice coach, Sue specialises in presentation skills, speech writing and media training.  Her clients range from actors to broadcasters; from senior executives to Prime Ministers.  Her far-flung career has taken her to Australia, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore.