Voices from the Edge

Book Review - Difficult Conversations

 A book review of the book by Douglas Stone

Lisette Kanse

Dr Lisette Kanse is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychological Science at the University of Western Australia (UWA) and the Course Coordinator of UWA’s Master of and Graduate Certificate in Business Psychology. She has worked as an academic and as a consultant/practitioner in a variety of industrial settings across Europe and Australia, including chemical industry, oil and gas, mining, rail transport, and healthcare settings.

 

Having entered the field of work health and safety over 25 years ago convinced of the importance of this domain, Lisette’s mission across her entire working life has been to improve work environments, either directly, or through her students, to keep people safe, healthy, engaged, and productive. Occasionally she has been known to extend this mission to keeping people safe outside of the work environment as well.

 

She uses her dual background in industrial engineering and organisational psychology to identify and facilitate evidence-based improvements, and to warn against ineffective strategies. Her research interests include human factors, work design characteristics, procedures, norms, culture, and leadership, and how these impact on work practice and safety and health.

Book Review - Communicating Under Fire

A book review of the book by Dallas Lawrence

Nova Gibson

Nova Gibson is director, founder and primary counsellor of Brighter Outlook Narcissistic Abuse Counselling Service and the go-to expert on narcissistic abuse recovery in Australia.

She is the author of Australia's best-selling practical self help book of 2023, 'Fake Love - Understanding and Healing From Narcissistic Abuse' published by Harpercollins and the host of her own Podcast, Fake Love and Flying Monkeys.

Book Review - Sizing Up People

A book review of the book by Robin Dreeke

Book Review - Brain Rules

A book review of this book by John Medina. 

Tori Cooke

Tori Cooke is a thought leader in family and domestic violence practice, prevention, and
systems reform.

With over 30 years of frontline social work and teaching experience, Tori is the
Consultant/Practice Educator behind Pandora Projects - a feminist consultancy grounded in
transformative education, reflective practice, and trauma-informed care.

Her work and remit is passionately focused on practice and professional growth and
development. Her experience spans the design and delivery of women’s healing groups and
men's behaviour change programs, supervision and mentoring of frontline workers, and
growing new leadership to support safer, more just responses in family violence.

Whether facilitating clinical supervision, training students and practitioners, or standing on
a stage, Tori is known for holding space with empathy, edge, and humour. Her work invites
others to reclaim their voice, reflect deeply on their work, and ultimately resist and push
back on the systems that silence and shrink us.

Book Review - Order out of chaos

A book review of this book by Scott Walker