Further Information:  Merv is a teacher, trainer and therapist. Graduating from MindFields College in December 2007, he became the first Australian to hold a Human Givens Diploma. In 2003, Merv incorporated his HG ideas into an innovative curriculum project that later won an award from the Austrlian National Training Authority. In a
teaching career spanning more than thirty years, Merv has enabled hundreds of young people to discard limiting beliefs and experience remarkable success. Working primarily with under-achievers and early school-leavers, Merv inspired them to develop marketable skills to fund their overseas and interstate travel. Activities that confirm the human potential from needs being met and resources used appropriately.

Merv promotes the human givens approach in Australia by presenting at conferences, training days, and through his busy schedule of one-day introductory seminars for health pofessionals.

Merv brings to the therapy setting all the benefits of a life well lived. He
has worked on building sites; in factories; in schools; and business settings. He has built two sports cars, a yacht, an aeroplane, and has traveled extensively in outback Australia, Canada, the US, Britian and Europe. Merv's core values are based on Napoleon Hill's definition of wealth: family harmony, good work relations, quality friendships, and spiritual peace. He lives with his wife and companion of thirty-five years, Robyn, and they have two adult sons.