Passion creates exquisite cuisine, drop-dead novels, life-altering floral arrangements and parties you remember for the rest of your life. It creates high-benefit, low-maintenance friendships, exuberant across-the-street encounters and tales you’d tell your grandchildren.

We recognize it in life, but so many of us don't understand it. So it goes with the commodity called love. Is love really lost, found, withheld, searched for, kept, gathered or expected? Is there more to it? Or, more accurately, is there less to the idea of love than we think?

John has a passion for listening to a situation and seeing the elements of a drama. He has a unique skill in coming to the point in such a way that everyone and everything, including the space around a person, is lifted. Often, as a consequence, people cease trying to 'fix' things. They begin to blossom. Fueled by his passion, John exercises the following skills on behalf of everyone who asks, and some who don't, but who need his thoughtfulness regardless of their lack of awareness.

Writing
John is the author of the groundbreaking autobiography “The Thunder Within” that tells of his own journey through the debilitating conditions of cerebral palsy, ataxia, aphasia and sudden-onset dystonia. From that emerged his second book, "Ladies and Gentlemen! Daring to Live What the Soul Already Knows". This book has been helping people in many walks of life recognize the power of choice that puts the word "common" back into common sense. John also writes on assignment to help individuals and groups better express themselves in a positive and looking - forward manner.

Individual and Group Coaching
John provides coaching by phone or in person to individuals and groups wishing to explore more of who they are, and more about what they recognize but often cannot express. John encourages people to empower themselves. He encourages them to simultaneously recognize the individual in the group, the group in the self, the self in the universe and the universe that lives in the self.

Pioneering and Remembering
Unable to discover a venue where people could safely and respectfully share and begin to recognize their greatness, John decided to act. Approached by many of his clients to offer a safe sharing opportunity for a few weeks, he put together a series of evening groups in which people could participate in a way that everyone grows. What was initially slated as a ten-time event continued for years. It's still going on.

Speaking
John has taken his message to international associations, artists, service clubs, healing groups, library gatherings, bookstores, disability groups, association and church socials, women’s gatherings, and men’s groups. Through these interactions runs a resounding theme about the empowerment of people in a respectful and uplifting way.

Creativity
John listens to people’s situations, and gives refreshing and uplifting options a chance to emerge from their circumstances. He thinks “outside the box” while at the same time empowering people and enlivening their place in society. In fact, he gives his creativity away to others, becoming more creative himself in the process, and demonstrating to the others how they can do the same.

Workshops
John has conducted single-event and multiple series workshops for people interested in feeling and experiencing the range of choices they really have in life. Among these have been gatherings such as:

• Understanding Energy (A Weekly Afternoon Series)
• Infusing Community With Inspiration
• Personal Development Using the Inspirational Circle
• Demonstrating Spirituality in Medicine
• How Big is Your Playroom? Perspectives for All Ages About What it Means to be Childlike
• Dare Not to Struggle: Whose Problem Is It Anyway?
• Appreciating Your Presence: Are You Aware of What You Accomplish?
• The Value of Teamwork in Healing
• Experiencing the Power and Joy of Group Energy

Atmospheric Attunement
Call it feng shui, dehaunting, home-clearing or encounter with spirit, John is known to bring lightness not only to people and groups but also to atmospheres in homes and at workplaces. He discourages being placed in any box which sees him as mystic, advanced or singularly gifted, for he knows that the electromagnetic energy among people and in places is alive and always has been, and always will be, regardless of our level of awareness of it.

Recognition and application of this ability is something, he believes, that is spreading and blossoming, soon to be relegated to the realm of the understood and the normal rather than as any “paranormal” occurrence. Call this aspect of his work what you will, it all comes down to an intention to bring uplifting creativity, peace and cooperation to events and situations.

Attunement of Abilities
John works with psychics, doctors, psychiatrists, health care practitioners, social workers and people whose work intervenes in the lives of others. He coaches practitioners from all walks of life as to how they can improve their work, helping them to apply these multi-faceted dynamics to children, classrooms, parenting, midwifery, writing, dance, the medical arts and more. Whatever the ability, fun fine-tuning can be not only beneficial, but an enjoyable experience!

Partnering
John is one of the founders of the Group Works Leadership Institute (GWLI) based in Ottawa, Canada. It’s a talented association of persons from many facets of facilitation, leadership and communication. They’re dedicated to demonstrating and helping others in the art of uplifting business and communication practices. His work with GWLI is but one example of how John continues to include teamwork in many aspects of his consultancy.

Interested in having John speak to your group or association? Contact him here

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