I am a Greek counselling and community psychologist who has spent his career trying to disrupt Psychology’s oppressive research norms and draw its attention to depth processes and systemic complexity. I channel the art of drag in my professional pursuits and am drawn to CANI-net because it bridges academia and art in ways that feel personally and
professionally meaningful. I am particularly interested in using Creative-Relational Inquiry to facilitate soul, community, and social justice. I co-founded the Community Psychology Festival in 2014, a UK-based event that moves to a different region each time, and reflects the values of community psychology and my areas of expertise. More recently I have moved towards systemic eco-psychotherapy, exploring my own indigeneity and undertaking nature-based quests that draw on ‘pan-cultural’ practices and rituals.
I teach Counselling Psychology at UWE Bristol, a post I have held since 2014, and am
passionate about bringing CRI, decolonization and soul to the classroom, which I experience as a radical space of possibility (bell hooks, 1994). I lead UWE’s Critical Autoethnography Network and supervise doctoral research using Autoethnography. I work very closely with my students to deliver high quality research/scholarship while strengthening the bonds of trust and playfulness between us, which I consider an integral part and desired outcome of what I do.