Barry & Paula Davis

Barry and Paula Davis live in Sydney, Australia, have been married for over four decades and have two adult children who live with their families nearby. Barry worked as a chartered accountant in private practice. He also has a theology degree and was involved in pastoring and church planting. In recent years his vocation has centred on developing relational tools for men as they explore their inner worlds. Paula is a clinical counsellor, supervisor and lecturer in counselling. Her doctoral thesis emerged from working with traumatised couples in post-war developing countries, exploring the transferability of Western developed psychological trauma concepts to collective societies. She has been a guest lecturer in higher education in Uganda, India and Sri Lanka. Together, Barry and Paula have been designing relational tools for married couples since the late 1980s and have conducted marriage workshops in Australia, East Africa, Sri Lanka, India and Europe. However, they believe they are an ordinary couple living through the highs and lows of married life. They wear the label “passionate about relationships” as a badge of honour and are enthusiastic about sharing their journey because they believe their story offers hope to others. Barry and Paula are acutely sensitive to unfairness and injustice in all societies. They possess an unshakeable desire to keep pushing the boundaries of learning to love well and to share that learning with others. Nevertheless, they enjoy lingering over a good coffee and can be found utterly absorbed in fun activities in the great outdoors. Challenge and risk attract them and they have had a go at skydiving, great white shark cage-diving, walking with African lions and zip-lining across a magnificent gorge.