Tuesday, February 4, 2020




Author's Profile






Immediate Family


Wife: Peggy
Daughter: Michelle
Sons: Anthony & Mark

EDUCATION

*Ph. D. Candidate (Education & Counseling)
*Grade 12, Yarmouth Memorial High School
      *B.A., Saint Anne's University
      *B.A., Dalhousie University
      *B.Ed., Saint Mary's University
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Master's Eq.: Educating, Counseling & Healing with Nature  
      *Certified Practitioner Level Neurolinguistic Programming (Instructor Reg Craig, Maritime    
        School of Social Work, Halifax NS)
      *Certified Master Practitioner of Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP-Counseling &  
        Psychological Therapy: Partners in Renewal, Ottawa)
      *Certified Master Practitioner Level of Quantum TLC(TM) Counseling &
        Psychological Therapy
      *Certified Master Facilitator Level in the WEL-Systems Counseling &
         Psychological Therapy
      *Orientation to Organic Psychology: The Natural Systems Thinking Process
*Certificate in Educating and Counseling with Nature, from the Institute of  
  Global Education Washington D.C.
 *Certificate in Well Mind, Well Earth, Institute of Global Education,  
   Washington, D.C.    
*Facilitated several distant learning Ecopsychology Courses for Dr. Michael 
  Cohen
      *Certified Hockey Coach (National Coaching Certification Program)
      *Certified Recording Engineer
      *Psychology of Exceptional Children Course (Acadia University)
      *I.E.I.E. Computer Course (Dept. of Education, Information Economy Initiative)
      *Leadership Seminar: with instructor Dr. Stephen Covey
      *Project Wild Program: Nova Scotia Dept. of Education & NS Dept. of Natural Resources
      *Jerrold Mundis Coaching for Writers Course, (The New York Times former editor)
      *Dale Carnegie Course 


CAREER EXPERIENCE

      *26-years Nova Scotia Public School Teacher
      *2-years sheet metal laborer and construction worker
      *2-years maintaining & repairing apartment buildings
      *1-year laborer with local paving company
      *25-years part time musician and audio engineer
      *4-years owning and operating a recording studio
      *Volunteer Yarmouth Regional Hospital (ALC & Hospice Unit)
      *Member of the Retired Nova Scotia Teachers Union

      *Award Winning Author: (Canada Book Awards)


Books
1.    Hockey, Kids & Positive Parenting: Michael's Story (2019)
2.    Messages of Hope (2017)
3.    One With Nature: A Day in the Life of a Lobster Fisher (2017)
4.    Hockey, Kids & Positive Coaching (2016)
5.    Dear Don Cherry: Does Hockey Love Kids (1996)

http://lofeexpublishing.blogspot.com/



Christopher has facilitated several online distant learning Ecopsychology Courses for Dr. Michael Cohen, a Special NGO Consultant to United Nations Economic and Social Council Program. (1999-2001) Dr. Cohen received the 1994 Distinguished World Citizen Award, presented by Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations, Dr. Robert Muller.

For more than 35 years he has had the opportunity to attend numerous seminars, read, analyzed, synthesized, and evaluated a variety of books related to education, and child & adult development.

Chris taught English, Social Studies, Health, and Art at the junior high school level, and all compulsory subjects, including eight years as a Resource Teacher (PST), at the elementary school level. He has been a participating member and chairperson of Program Planning Teams, and overseen the setting up and maintenance of the computer lab at Carleton Consolidated School, where he coordinated a Grassroots Project.

Chris has facilitated workshops regarding the value of creating a classroom atmosphere that supports the growth of self-esteem in children for the Tri County School Board, and for the Primary Elementary Teachers Association (PETA) at their annual provincial conferences. He has conducted workshops, explaining the writing process, editing, and publication of books, and demonstrated the use of educational software, for these organizations.

Chris volunteered in a unit at a hospital in Nova Scotia in a unit where he worked with youth who were in a state of severe physical, mental and developmental disarray. They were described by such terms as severe "deformity", "dysmorphism" or "dysmorphic". They were existing at the most severe acute phase of mental illness. He also volunteered at Yarmouth Regional Hospital (Rehabilitation Services) where he visited patients who had limited social interaction due to mobility, loneliness, limited family visits, or physical ability to leave their room. The Patients were waiting for placement in long-term care.

In 2013 Chris experienced a powerfully positive learning and life changing event. He had a seizure and car accident which led to a 21-hour surgery to remove a massive brain tumor.

Chris has had articles related to child development (self-esteem) published in numerous journals, newsletters, newspapers and web sites throughout the world.


                          ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

                         Neurolinguistic Programming


“NLP is used to develop strong, predictable influence, to manage stress, pain or trauma, and to accelerate learning and enhance performance”.  As a science, NLP has been recognized as one of the singularly most powerful tools that supports rapid and profound change in human behavior”.  Louise LeBrun

“I have used NLP techniques with individuals suffering from anxiety related disorders and have received greater results in an hour session than some individuals were able to receive in 14 years of therapy with psychiatrists and psychologists.” Dr. Don Blackerby

“NLP may be the most powerful vehicle for change in existence...” Modern Psychology


WEL-Systems Counseling & Psychological Therapy


The WEL-Systems® approach offers “a proven pathway to access a context for change that will do just that: profoundly alter the way you see your 'self', your world and the way you move through that world”.  


Quantum TLC(TM) Counseling & Psychological Therapy


 “Quantum TLC creates a powerful and sustainable context/process for living that allows us to grow, expand and engage our own evolution our own way and in our own time - as a way of life”!



Ecopsychology


Ecopsychology is an emerging field that is developing in recognition that human health, identity, and sanity are intimately linked to the health of the earth and must include sustainable and mutually enhancing relationships between humans and the nonhuman world. Ecopsychology places human psychology in an ecological context and is aimed at healing the divisions between mind and nature, humans and earth. The central concern of Ecopsychology is the physical, psychological, and spiritual health of both the human and non-human world and an understanding of the psychological processes that either bond us to the natural world or alienate us from it”. (Davis & Fields)     
                                                          


Practitioner of Guided Imagery and Relaxation Techniques

Meditative techniques used to help induce Dr. Herbert Benson’s Relaxation Response.  According to Benson, “Any condition that is caused or exacerbated by stress can be helped by a well-designed mind-body approach. Furthermore, because all health conditions have some stress component, it is no overstatement to say that virtually every single health problem and disease can be improved with a mind-body approach.” Dr. Herbert Benson is an American medical doctor, cardiologist, and founder of the Mind/Body Medical Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He is a professor of mind/body medicine at Harvard Medical School and director emeritus of the Benson-Henry Institute at MGH. 

Plato once said: “The greatest mistake "some" physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind; yet the mind and the body are one and should not be treated separately!”





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