Dean Yates

Mediator, conflict coach, public speaker, trainer, author & mental health researcher

“Dean has produced a world-class guidebook on how we deal with traumatic wounds"

Steve Biddulph, author of Raising Boys, Raising Girls & The New Manhood
”The roughest, most honest, journalistic memoir of war I've ever encountered”

Thomas E. Ricks, author of Fiasco and Waging a Good War
“A gripping read ... I praise Dean’s raw honesty!”

Senator Jacqui Lambie
“I have never read a more visceral & moving account of a person so at war with himself"

Dr Mark Cross, psychiatrist, author of Anxiety and co-author of Changing Minds
“Dean Yates captures the after war of PTSD and moral injury in the most searing way”

Nancy Sherman, New York Times notable author & philosopher
"No work has pulled back the veil on the consequences of trauma & moral injury like this"

John Bale, co-founder of Soldier On and Fortem. Afghan veteran
"Dean raises important questions about the impact work can have on employee mental health and the support they get"

Amy McKeown, Workplace Mental Health & Wellbeing Strategist
"A story like no other. Dean’s extraordinary journey is a gift to those who feel shackled by shame & defeated by trauma"

Peter Whish-Wilson, Greens Senator for Tasmania
"Yates reveals an essential truth about recovery from trauma and moral injury, namely that it is a lifelong challenge"

Professor Brett Litz, global pioneer on moral injury