International Executive Commitee Members

Ron Farmer PhD

Ron has worked as a lecturer in clinical psychologist in University of New South Wales in Sydney, and was instrumental in training the first practitioners at Master’s Level in cognitive behaviour therapy and behaviour modification in Australia. Ron Farmer has been conducting workshops in Human Values Education since 1985 in Australia and internationally with the main focus being on teachers and parents undergoing personal self-transformation so as to become good role models for the children in their care . He blends the latest research findings in neuroscience, positive psychology and values-based education.
He is a founding director of Toogoolawa School in Australia which for the past 25 years has provided free, full-time Human Values Education for boys whose behaviour makes them unwelcome in mainstream schools.

Ron and Suwanti have self-published a number of books on values-based education in recent years titled The Mindful Teacher in Human Values Education; Mindful Parenting for a Meaningful Life; Handbook for Rediscovering Authentic Happiness in the Closing Years of our Life; Self Awareness in Early Childhood and Love Changes Everything.


Gary Seaton

International Trustee of Spiritan Self Awareness Initiative

Chairman of Heart of Love Foundation (Australia) Ltd
Founder and Chairman of G&G Group of Companies


Suwanti Farmer

Has worked as a clinical psychologist in university, mental health and educational settings in Germany , United Kingdom , Indonesia and in Australia since 1982.

Suwanti and her husband Ron Farmer have been conducting workshops in Human Values Education since 1985 in Australia and internationally with the main focus being on teachers and parents undergoing personal self-transformation so as to become good role models for the children in their care. They blend the latest research findings in neuroscience, positive psychology and values-based education.

She is a founding director of Toogoolawa School in Australia which for the past 25 years has provided free, full-time Human Values Education for boys whose behaviour makes them unwelcome in mainstream schools.

Ron and Suwanti have self-published a number of books on values-based education in recent years titled The Mindful Teacher in Human Values Education; Mindful Parenting for a Meaningful Life; Handbook for Rediscovering Authentic Happiness in the Closing Years of our Life; Self Awareness in Early Childhood and Love Changes Everything.


DR RAVINDRAN K. K. PILLAY

M.B.B.S (Singapore) 1982 | F.R.C.S (Edinburgh) 1987
M.Ch. Orth. (Liverpool) 1990 | Diploma SportsMed (Canada) 1992
Professional Experience
Post Graduate Student
M. Ch. Orth. (Liverpool) Course
Department of Orthopaedic & Accident Surgery
University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
January 1990 – December 1990

Senior Registrar
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Bristol Royal Infirmary, United Kingdom
January 1991 – June 1992

Clinical Fellow
Arthroscopic Surgery & Sports Medicine
Orthopaedic & Arthritic Hospital, Toronto, Canada
July 1991 – June 1992 Senior Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Pillay Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Spine Surgery Pte Ltd 3 Mount Elizabeth #03-04 Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre Singapore 228510