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Carl du Preez

Carl Sebastiaan du Preez grew up and finished his schooling in Kimberley (Northern Cape), South Africa. After school he started studying medicine but altered his medical studies at the end of his third year and completed a BMedSci-degree, a BSc (Honours) Physiology-degree, a Higher Educational Diploma (Post-graduate), a BSc (Honours) Psychology–degree, a BEd Hons (Educational Psychology)-degree and a MEd (Educational Psychology).

He worked as a primary and secondary school teacher (Biology and Science), as a lecture in Physiology, Educational Psychology, Learning Support and Special Needs Education. He also worked in the pharmaceutical industry specialising in headaches and migraine.

At University level he received two awards for his research on the influence of child abuse on intellectual functioning as well as an education innovation award for his work done on mobilising SMS technologies as a learning support tool. He has published extensively in both national and international accredited academic journals.

Currently he is Manager of the Network for Life Centre, Director of CSC Midrand and Executive team member of churchwithoutwalls, a mega church in Centurion - South Africa. The Network for Life Centre focuses on reactive and proactive methods to mobilise and nurture all people’s holistic well-being; including personal, interpersonal, emotional, social, spiritual, learning and work related domains.

Carl’s current interests are in Narrative therapy; Interpersonal neurobiology relating to empathy; The emotion of ‘awe’; Strengths mobilisation in schools, in relationships, in internships and the workplace. He does part-time lecturing at the South African College of Applied Psychology (SACAP) and also supervises students doing their internships and research mini-theses in the field of psychology.

Carl regularly presents and facilitates talks, workshops and CPD training to psychologists, therapists, teachers, students and clergyman.

Carl is happily married with three teenagers. He and his family are keen on hiking and his hobbies are bird watching, indigenous gardening, being in nature and reading.