Carol Surya is a children’s wellness expert, counseling psychologist, author and game developer, who is passionate about empowering parents, children and those involved in raising children. Using a positive psychology approach to bring out one’s potential, she inspires audiences with her practical, solution-focused tools that help parents and children feel happier, calmer and more connected.
She has worked in private practise, academic, corporate, community and public sectors across South Africa over the last 24 years, and has experience implementing the Journey® method internationally in several countries. Carol has designed and delivered countless parenting workshops and stress management programs, delivered talks at national and international conferences, written two books (Great Kids, 2012 and Parent Magic - raising kids positively, 2016) and developed and published the Inner Magic® children’s self-esteem. Carol is also co-director of an NGO W.I.S.E (Wellbeing in Schools and Education) which offers comprehensive personal and children’s wellbeing training programs to educators, social workers and child care workers from disadvantaged communities.
Her background also includes volunteer trauma debriefing of survivors in Indonesia after the December 2004 tsunami disaster; living on board the Phelophepa Health Care train as the resident psychologist assisting rural communities; co-developing the multi-disciplinary Say No To Child Abuse two year training program that was partly sponsored by the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund and delivered throughout Gauteng; running CPD accredited training based on her game and books; international accreditation and experience as a Biodanza facilitator (movement based personal growth system) and the Journey® method. Carol holds a Masters degree in counseling psychologist from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (1996).
Deepening Change in Imago Relationship Therapy