Alfonso Fernández (Prom. 66) is studying Psychology + Programme in Organisational Psychology at the University of Deusto and is currently in his third year of Erasmus in Birmingham, England.
He would like to train in psychoanalysis and work as a clinical psychologist. Until now he has worked as a Hockey+ coach (category formed by people with intellectual disabilities) in Hockey Getxo and in a project for the dissemination of good practices in the field of the Human Right to Water and Sanitation with the Zabalketa Association founded by Gaztelueta Alumni. He also carries out different voluntary work as a teacher in the Phidias Foundation and others in Valladolid, Lourdes, Lebanon and Ghana.
One of his great hobbies is cinema, to which he devotes much of his free time. When he was at school he also made short films with his friends.
"I think there is something special about film that, perhaps especially as a student of psychology, engages and excites me; it is still a representation of the human condition, an art form. There is a lot of psychology behind it"
"I have always felt very lucky to have gone to Gaztelueta. Above all, it has given me my best friendships, many of which I have no doubt will last a lifetime. At school I also had many opportunities to do things that I love; I can't fail to mention the Christmas festivals in which I participated with great enthusiasm, as well as many volunteering and activities that I have joined later that started with proposals at school. The people who make up Gaztelueta have taught me to be honest, responsible, respectful, curious and critical. I am very grateful to them for not limiting themselves to teaching us what was in the textbooks and for educating by example. Now I understand what a privilege it is to grow up surrounded by such a nurturing environment with so much affection..”
