Gill McKinna is the Head of the Caledonian System National Team.  The Caledonian System is an integrated approach to address men’s use of abusive behaviour towards female partners. It consists of a court mandated men’s behaviour change programme with integrated women’s and children’s services and is accredited by the Scottish Advisory Panel for Offender Rehabilitation.  

Gill’s academic career includes a degree in Social Work and a Master’s degree in Psychological Trauma Studies. She has extensive experience working within Scotland’s justice system and has spent the majority of her front line social work career specialising in the delivery of the Caledonian System. Gill has a commitment to trauma informed practice and to the continued growth and development of the Caledonian System.

Jonathan Fowler has been working around the impact of violence and abuse in families since 1992 as a group facilitator and individual therapist. He has worked both with victims and perpetrators of abuse. His work includes ten years in a secure psychiatric clinic, where he mainly specialised in working with survivors of severe childhood abuse. Since 2011 he has been working in community domestic abuse perpetrator programmes.

In addition to front-line work, he has been a teacher and trainer for many years - including teaching counselling and motivational interviewing. He is also a clinical supervisor for staff in the domestic abuse sector, and a researcher. He is an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Bristol and runs an independent research consultancy. His academic background is in Child & Family Studies and currently his research focus is on what works in programmes with domestic abuse perpetrators, with an emphasis on the working alliance and motivational interviewing.

Guy Mountford is a Domestic Violence Specialist working in the field for the Probation Service and in community settings for over 20 years. This includes writing, implementing, facilitating, training and managing Domestic Violence Perpertrator Programmes. He has had major roles in design and implementation of multi-disciplinary teams, managing high-risk DA perpetrators alongside Police and Psychology.

Guy remains at the heart of progressive front line practice, delivering training across the UK Domestic Violence/Abuse sector in areas such as Non-Fatal Strangulation whilst also introducing accredited perpetrator engagement programmes for professionals in the substance misuse, social care and other relevant sectors.