About Evelyn M. Field, FAPS

People who need people are the luckiest people in the world, but it isn’t always that easy. Some people don’t know how to connect and relate with others in a sociable, intimate or caring manner. Others don’t know how to protect themselves from difficult, mean or nasty members of their tribe. Effective social survival skills empower people to relate and deal with school or workplace bullying. Thus social and emotional resilience are essential skills for today’s society.

Evelyn M. Field is a practising psychologist and an Accredited Speaking Member of National Speakers Association of Australia. She has spoken in New Zealand, Belgium, Spain, USA, Vietnam and Israel. In June 2004 she presented a four-hour workshop and a paper at the International Conference into Workplace Bullying in Norway.

Evelyn has developed a social survival skills model from her personal and professional experience. It has been presented to adolescents, parents, teachers, health professionals and organizations.

Her unique presentations are regarded as entertaining, ethical and educational. She uses a variety of techniques eg cases, stories, cartoons, magic, role-plays, to engage participants and help them develop new skills.

She has been appointed a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society and is one of their media spokespersons. She has done over 700 media interviews on a wide range of topics, appearing on the "Today show", " Good Morning Australia", “A Current Affair”,  “Seven thirty Report”, “Today Tonight Show”, Channel Seven News and Ribena Light. She was Resident Psychologist for Channel Ten’s “ 9 AM” show with David and Kim with a focus on relationships and current affairs.

Her first book, ‘Bully Busting’ (Finch 1999) a self–help book for parents, children and educators based on her six social survival skills sold over 22,000 copies has been translated into Italian, Croatian and Arabic. The updated version “Bully Blocking®” was released February 2007. She wrote a chapter on parenting for “ Bullying Solutions” for the National Coalition Against Bullying and is completing a self-help book on dealing with workplace bullying.

She is on the Board of the National Coalition Against Bullying. She was on the board of VOCAL for 5 years, [Victims of Crime Assistance League, in Victoria] and spent 20 years as a Board Member of the Mental Health Foundation of Victoria and 11 years as Honorary Secretary of the Australian Association for Mental Health.

Evelyn provides a range of range professional services and products to deal with bullying and develop resilience and social skills

Phone/fax: 61 3 9523 0300.

email: efield@netspace.net.au