The Order of Bards Orates and Druids' Chief is Philip Carr-Gomm. He wrote The Druid Way and The Elements of the Druid Tradition, as well as editing The Book of Druidry and The Druid Renaissance. From the age of fifteen, Philip studied with Chief Druid Philip Ross Nichols. He studied psychosynthesis, adult psychotherapy, and children's play therapy after earning a psychology degree.