Our core team of Associates are all highly skilled and respected practitioners and trainers in their own fields which include counseling, group work, supervision, substance misuse, behaviour change and creative theatre work with disadvantaged or challenging groups. This is a powerful combination. To work effectively with the ignition approach they must be, and are, lively, enthusiastic, energetic, inquiring, spontaneous and highly skilled. We make no apologies for claiming to use the best people in the field.

ignition Associates encompass individuals skilled in group work, criminal justice fields, counseling, drama and theatre work, substance misuse, psychology, psychodrama and other therapeutic modalities. This ensures that the delivery of a given training event, programme or group session is conducted to the highest standards of skill and experience.

• Mark Farrall BA., BSc., MSc.
  Is the founder and Director of ignition, is an independent forensic psychologist and trainer with extensive experience in innovative project work and staff training in the voluntary, statutory and artistic sectors. He has over twenty years experience of the use of theatre and action methods, including a decade in educationally based theatre work. This included work nationally with secondary school children and seven years with the country’s leading theatre company in the of use drama for the rehabilitation and education of offenders.
  
  Mark has also worked nationally in all categories of prison, from open to maximum security, including women's prisons, remand and Young Offender Institutions. This work has extended to Regional Secure Units working with serious juvenile offenders and mentally disordered offenders, and to the HMP Peterhead Special Units for disruptive and violent prisoners and sex offenders. He has also worked within the three Special Hospitals of Broadmoor, Rampton and Ashworth, with Republican and Loyalist prisoners in the Republic of Ireland and with offenders in Northern Ireland. Youth work has included communications skills and group sessions with disadvantaged or at risk young people, with the Princes Trust.
  
  Mark is also a member of the National Executive Committee of RESPECT, the national association for domestic violence practitioners and associated support services, and an International Trainer in Motivational Interviewing. He continues to be involved in creative theatre work through the Message In A Bottle project. All of this experience goes into making the ignition blend unique.

• Lucy Emlyn-Jones BSc.(Hons), DipSW
  Lucy has long-term experience of the voluntary sector, founding and for a decade managing a comprehensive alcohol counselling service and other related substance misuse services for an area covering five Local Authority areas in South East Wales. Under her direction the agency developed a range of client centred services rooted in a Motivational Interviewing approach and provided free and confidential alcohol counselling and information including couple and family work, a home alcohol detox service, a young people’s alcohol and drug service, an auricular acupuncture service and an arrest referral scheme.
  
  Management responsibilities included the establishment of an agency philosophy and approach, trained, supervised and managed volunteer counsellors, developed and implemented policies and procedures, raised continuation and expansion funding and appointed, trained and managed staff. This included developing accreditation with the University of Wales.
  
  Lucy's involvement with ignition has included organisational consultancy work focussing use of domestic violence and abuse, including the development of a three-year Business Plan and phased service delivery model for an entirely new voluntary sector organisation for domestic violence perpetrators and associated women’s support services, and survey, analysis and recommendations for a strategy of domestic violence training within interagency settings.
  
  She is a member of the International Network of trainers in Motivational Interviewing (MINT) and was a lead Associate in the development and delivery of training in Motivational Interactions and Training for Trainers for Corrections Victoria, Australia and the training of psychology and prison staff in Motivational Interactions for the Northern Ireland Prison service. She is also Lead Associate in the development of our Health Portfolio.
  
  Lucy continues to maintain a client case load and is currently a Trustee of Newlink South Wales, a voluntary sector training agency in the field of substance abuse, and am involved in the development of accreditation criteria on both an agency and individual level under the newly released Drug & Alcohol National occupational Standards (DANOS) document which is attempting to develop a national framework for accreditation in these matters.
  

• Rhoda Emlyn-Jones DipSW., MSc.
  Rhoda has a long and distinguished career in the statutory sector, playing a prominent role in strategic planning and commissioning for substance misuse services nationally and having been involved in advising on strategic planning on a range of government appointed committees since the late 80s. Her national level appointments include Chair of the Advisory Planning Group (APG) of the joint planning and commissioning structure for alcohol services and Member of the United Kingdom Alcohol Education and Research Council (AERC). This appointment is by a personal invitation from central government.
  
  Her interest and experience in building capacity in people and organisations has included advising on professional training, the development of training agencies, influencing the quality of vocational and post-qualification training and the direct delivery of training to key professionals over the last fifteen years.
  
  Rhoda is a Member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) and has had international influence in training practices and implementation, teaching widely throughout Europe. She convened and led the first European Motivational Interviewing Summer School in 1998 and directly manage the largest team of accredited M.I. trainers in the U.K. This has involved taking the agency through a rigorous accreditation process with outside institutions, such as the University of Wales.
  
  With ignition, Rhoda has played a valuable role as a frontline trainer in our specialised M.I.-based interventions and in our consultancy inputs on service design and delivery, especially on the ethics of management.
  

• Camilla Lailey BA., PGCA
  Camilla has worked in the fields of organisational development, cultural change, team working and personal development since 1990 when she joined Outward Bound Wales to deliver Outdoor based personal and professional development workshops and courses. Her current work within the Corporate sector includes clients in Financial Services, Industry, Manufacturing, Construction, Utilities and Transport, as well as Public Sector work for the NHS, Youth Services, Probation Services, Police Services, Schools and Charities.
  
  Camilla's specialism in coaching and performance management and group facilitation using active learning techniques has made her a valuable member of the Associate training team, as does her experience of drama based work within the Criminal Justice System. Her background in Theatre In Education has been especially useful for her role as Lead Associate for ignition's project based Message In a Bottle Theatre Company working with people experiencing alcohol related difficulties.
  
  She has also worked with specialised client groups including youth development, learning disabilities and cancer recovery outdoor based programmes.

• Cheryl Scammells B.A. (HONS.) P.G.C.E. Dip. Couns. (DIST.)
  Cheryl has now been working as a counsellor in the statutory sector for 16 years. She is also a teacher and supervisor of other counsellors. Before having her children, she worked full time managing a very busy alcohol and drug counselling team within Social Services. Part of her role was the recruitment, training and supervision of volunteer counsellors. She currently works part time within the Cardiff Alcohol and Drug Team and Cardiff City Council's generic Employee Counselling Service. She also played a leading role in setting up what continues to be a thriving Service Users' Forum in Cardiff and has for 10 years been a member of the Board of Directors of an organisation providing residential and day care facilities for people with alcohol problems.
  
  Cheryl is an experienced trainer and member of the International Network of trainers in Motivational Interviewing (MINT). She has extensive experience in delivering ignition's M.I. based training, under both the Forensic and Heath training portfolios and is a trained and experienced group worker with much experience in running both therapeutic and supervision groups.
  
  She has a particular interest, experience and training in the fields of domestic violence and sexual abuse. She has for many years been working with both perpetrators and victims of domestic violence and abuse. For the last 2 years her main involvement with ignition has been co-delivery of supervision and consultancy services to various Probation Service groupwork teams running domestic violence and abuse perpetrator group work programmes.

Our team also includes a pool of skilled improvisational actors, groupworkers and facilitators who join us on projects led by the above Associates.