Facilitators

• Dr Alyssa Clayden
  Truman Group
  Therapist
  

  Dr. Alyssa Clayden has been living, working and raising a family in international environments for over 20 years. As a therapist with Truman Group, Alyssa works as an expert in child and adolescent mental health, specialising in LGBTQIA+ and multiracial identities. Alyssa is passionate about bringing youth, families and school staff together to build support for young people in all environments. Her academic research seeks to understand the ways that our identities and our language can be leveraged to improve child and adolescent mental health, and what support looks like when we are intentional in our work. Alyssa believes that, only when we take time to honestly know ourselves and our our ways of thinking, can we work collectively to support the healthy development of each individual student and family, and our community at large.

• Chanel Worsteling
  Association of International Schools in Africa
  Wellbeing for All Programme Coordinator
  

  Presently, Chanel spearheads AISA’s comprehensive Wellbeing for All Programme, a role that involves bolstering AISA’s child protection, wellbeing, and DEIJ endeavors by creating valuable resources, conducting training sessions and webinars, and guiding a Practice Group for member schools. Additionally, Chanel is also a Regional Educational Trainer in Child Protection for ICMEC. In addition to her role with AISA, Chanel operates her own private psychotherapy practice, Courageous Being.