Dorothea Lewis and Aileen Cheshire

We share a history of beginning our professional lives as teachers and discovering that our interests lay with the young people we met, rather than the content we were meant to be teaching them. This led us both into training as school counsellors with jobs that now allow us to spend all day having interesting conversations with young people and their families. Although we have quite different approaches to our lives and work, in the eight years we have worked together at Selwyn College we have developed a wonderful sense of togetherness in our shared values and beliefs about the work we are doing. Not to mention a love of fun, laughter and cafe lattes.