Russell Razzaque has been a Consultant Psychiatrist for nearly 20 years and also a part time academic for the last 10. He is an Associate Medical Director and Director of R&D at his NHS Trust as well as the Clinical Director for Community Mental Health Transformation. Russell is also an Open Dialogue trainer and a Mindfulness teacher and his areas of research interest are around person-centred care and therapeutic relationships and how they can be cultivated and embedded into mainstream care. He has also had an interest in extending this same philosophy to participatory models of democracy.