Our History

Wayne Parrott was born in 1959 in Redfern, Sydney, home of the South Sydney Rabbitos. He attended school in St Vincents primary which was heavily populated with ethnic and indigeneous Australians. He moved to the Eastern Suburbs in 1970, attending Marist Brothers at Pagewood another multi ethnic school. Wayne gained much of his inclusive nature in these environments where he was mentored by his hero, Brother Earnest Euston. " Ernie was hard as nails, but always fair. A great role model when I really neeeded one", Wayne stated. Wayne mainly self educated and mian topics studied were physiology, philosophy and business. Wayne became a business manager and later a corporate consultant in the 1980's and 90's to many large Australian and International corporations. His mother had been diagnosed with Cancer early in his life and that had set him off on voyage of discovery in Natural Health remedies that he still pursues today. Wayne has met or been influnced by some great healers including Nathan Pritikin, Norman Cousins, Ian Gawler and Patch Adams to name a few. In 2003 Fountainhead Organic Retreat, www.fountainhead.com.au opened in Maleny Qld as an education centre for Cancer and Depression. It has since grown to be the third largest retreat in Australia and the only certified Organic retreat in the world, employing a team of 40. Wayne had been motivated towards learning about Depressive illness when his best friend was struck down in 2000. At this time Jeff Kennett, chairman of Beyond Blue, also worked with Wayne in business. Wayne got some advice from Jeff and headed off to try to find "what worked" with the goal of applying this to his friend whom was very ill. What Wayne discovered was that there were many parts of the solution available in many different camps, (Natural healing, Psychology, Life Coaching) but no one was combining these therapies with the sufferer as the focus. Each expert was very dismissive of the other's "not working as well as his method". Wayne found this saddening. He found that the best approach was taught to him by his Mentor Fabio Baroni, (of Lateral Thinking Fame) which was that of remaining the eternal apprentice. Over the next seven years Wayne and the Fountainhead team put all the parts of the puzzle together and measured the result. During this time Wayne, with a team of experts he brought together at Fountainhead, (including Michelle Mark, Greg Neville ND, and lately Prof Bruno Cayoun) developed a method that probably is the most successful treatment for most depressive and anxiety disorders available in the world today. Through Fountainhead Retreat and its team of Life coaches, over 3000 people have completed the program, most of whom claim a complete cure. During 2008 Wayne commenced development of the Australian Depression Institute. The goal here was to bring the Method that worked so well at Fountainhead to a wider audience. The method was developed by Michelle Mark into a repeatable, transportable more widely assessable solution for sufferers of anxiety or depressive disorder. The new product offering contains all the information delivered in the original program but the sufferer does not need to stay away from home for lengthy periods of time. Because catering and accommodation expenses are not incurred, the price can also be kept much lower for the one whom is ill. The new group commenced treating clients in October 2008 and has plans to expand around Australia over the next two years. The only thing slowing the expansion is having enough trained Life Coaches in the method available. If you can help with any of these programs in any way, (venues, support groups, corporate sponsorship for Pro Bonos) or need more information as to how you can, please contact Wayne directly: home@adi.net.au

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