My background includes a wide repertoire of healing modalities in Western (AKA allopathic medicine) and in ACM (alternative complementary medicine), as well as scientific research, physical training, life coaching, counseling, public speaking and over 30 years of teaching experience. I have some engineering background as well, but never loved the corporate and government bureacracy of engineering. Instead, I went on to apply my engineering talents by noticing patterns with people and helping them solve a variety of problems.

For about 26 years I enjoyed and taught outdoor adventure sports including rock and ice climbing, whitewater boating, horseback riding, mountaineering, scuba diving, and many more.

Later, an injury guided me into a doctorate in medicine and I continued teaching and empowering people how to heal themselves. I designed a Health and Wellness Education Center. We did tons of classes and multi-day programs about all kinds of healing and exercise modalities, did retreats on and off site, ran community outreach programs, and hosted free events for the public. It was an awesome place and I miss it. My patients were like family to me. I was invited to their hockey games, art shows, greenhouses, and concerts.

For years I had received feedback from clients and patients that our programs were awesome and that people craved the info in written, audio and video formats so they could remember it and keep using it with less direct coaching and instruction needed. I planned to write a website of our material, but could never even get it started while running a full time healing center and educational business.

Then, during a surgery for fibroids, in the fall of 2012, I was given a cocktail of 9 pharmaceutical drugs that shut down a lot of my organ function and damaged my immune system. A series of 4 concurrent infections nearly killed me. After several more months of severe weakness, random collapsing (with symptoms just like acute liver exposure to toxicity), and a variety of organ function symptoms, I abandoned my office, my duplex, and 60% of my belongings to try to climb my way back to full functionality.

From the fall of 2012 until the present time, I have continued to have some immune system dysfunction, despite a lot of ongoing treatments for the immune system, nervous system, and in support of all body systems. Several allopathic medical people and a lot of alternative complementary medical people have been unable to completely solve my problem, even when several of them worked collaboratively together. It has been an interesting and at times frustrating path/journey to be on.

I have been involved in allopathic medicine at least as far back as 1985. I have been involved in ACM (alternative and complementary medicine) at least as far back as 1996. I first became interested in societal system change as a doctor approximately 2006, or perhaps even before that. I didn't like the division in healthcare and people's beliefs about it into two distinct camps – allopathic or Western medicine (MDs, nurses, x-ray techs, physical therapists, etc.) and ACM (alternative complementary medicine such as massage, acupuncture, cranio sacral, etc.). I had come from a very allopathic medical family and believed ACM techniques to be quackery myself, until rehabilitation during my own back injury had taught me how wrong that closed-minded thinking was.

Over time, I began to be interested in not only changing the healthcare system, but also other societal systems that seemed more concerned in making profit than they were about people. I noticed that a lot of our bureaucratic government systems don't work very well. I studied many government, political, voting, and economic structures. I became convinced that it is not the specific model of government that is the major problem (capitalism vs socialism vs any other “ism's”), but instead is the nature of the economic system that steers us toward corrupt dysfunctional versions of the “ism's”.

With 1) advances in technology rapidly pushing both blue collar and white collar jobs toward automation and robotics, 2) fuel shortages in the near future (best viewed by researchers looking at EROI (energy return on investment), and 3) economic manipulation by corporate interests pushing most nation's economies into severe income inequality and wiping out the middle class (including and especially the USA), we as a world really need to re-construct new ways of thinking about, managing, and educating about life. A money and profit dependent system is not really going to continue working as most jobs go away at a geometrically increasing rate. I could show you graphs from a Harvard study that shows that we don't really have a middle class in the US anymore. It has been pretty decimated by income inequality. That is not good since the middle class are really the backbone of most of the economy.

I think people are very distracted by current politicians in all the major political parties, and would better spend their time and resources building decentralized systems from the small local scale upward. We have quite a bit of evidence that this works.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I traveled around for a lot of years while teaching. I like the idea of couch surfing. It allows people to connect in local areas, keeps costs down, and it is a successful model of using alternative economies and systems for people helping people instead of helping corporate profit. I had been doing couch surfing for years before I ever heard of this organization. I like it because it provides a network of people in every state and every country.

I often don't need CouchSurfing to find a place to stay when I travel since I've had many friends and places to stay through the nature of my own work, but it really is a great organization and I believe in what they are doing.

Interests

For a while we had a growing team of people working on a project in the Northeastern US called Awareness Connections Organization (ACO). As the focus of the program continued to expand and get more broad, we began working with other organizations instead. We found that too many people are trying to re-create the wheel. It seemed smarter to raise the scale of work to bridging between the national and international organizations.

The world really needs to be bridging and networking across the different organizations at this point. There are many great organizations including international educational organizations, the international timebanking networks (especially TimeBanks USA which is international and which gives a lot of free and super low cost support and has a software with the reputation of doing the most and being the easiest to learn), The Next System Project, Democracy Collaborative, Ubuntu Contributionism, Holacracy (as a governance style), the Mutual Aid Network, and a giant global network of other decentralized groups working hard for improvement of societal systems.

Near the intersection of New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, we have started a new time bank where people can exchange hours with each other without needing money called the Community Sharing Exchange. It is scheduled to be officially opened to the public in November 2018, but we welcome people to start learning how to use the timebank now and start getting involved with whichever local sustainability project you are interested in. Local sustainability will include how to set up group governance (see below), sustainable food, water, cooperative transportation systems, collaborative free healthcare, collaborative education projects, and the project list will expand from there. We want to create a new planet.

All classes are free in return for helping out with the project. If you are not in our area, you can either join our timebank anyway with a group of your friends and we can help you learn how to use our timebank from whereever you are in the world, or we can help you find a good one closer to you. We teach groups of people how to increase their happiness, their healing, and their effectiveness so they can THRIVE and be less dependent on the dysfunctional governmental systems.

We accept people from other places for coming to us and training with us now if they want to get a jump start at bringing part or all of this program to their area. We can take non-paid interns too for periods of time of weeks to months and they can exchange their labor doing simple tasks and receive up to thousands of dollars of free training. They can even receive time bank credits for this time they spend and we encourage it. (We also receive time credits for it and it helps the timebanks.) We've already helped groups in Ontario and Hawaii get started.

Timebanks are amazing in good times and for emergency response. In New Zealand, by the 2nd and 3rd earthquakes in 2011 to hit the region, the timebanks were literally more important to getting real help to real people than the emergency services were. The timebank networks literally became the communication and relay system for the whole region.

For the best success, we don't recommend starting a new timebank in your locale unless you have already gathered 30-50 people who want to participate with a minimum of 10 people willing to run it as a team. We can quickly teach you how to form a pod of friends and get started forming your group while using a non-local timebank's software.

Are you not sure how to run an organization so every timid support person is empowered as well as every strong leader, with no one being able to overpower or control anyone else, and yet be able to move forward quickly and productively as an effective team? We can show you how to use the free tools of holacracy to get yourselves set up to self govern. We can also tell you who to go to for additional training and support to do so if you can afford the official training seminars.

Very exciting work is being done around the world right now. Canada is 66% green renewable energy and growing. Canada also has the first official town government, in North Frontenac, Ontario, implementing the One Small Town model to rejuvenate their town. This is based on the Ubuntu Contributionism worldwide movement started by Michael Tellinger. The idea is that a local economy is set up where all adults volunteer a minimum of 3 hours labor per week to various organized community projects. In return for that, over time, they will get free food products, free services, and eventually free electricity, food, and water.

The system is set up from the beginning to be sustainable and to not depend on any kind of grants or charity. It is designed to create 3 times more goods and services than it needs, sell the goods and services to other nearby local people for a small fraction of what these things would normally cost, and have the whole idea spread until we have a good economy functioning up and well that is people-centered and not profit-centered. Mayor Ron Higgins of North Frontenac Ontario has also been asked to help with a task force of creating resilient self-sustaining towns in rural areas since many projects are only being developed in urban centers on a local government scale.

Germany is leading the way with an energy network that will see each residential building and office building become its own power supply of 100% renewable energy with a network that will connect them, not to charge them money, but instead to be able to divert extra stored power to geographic areas in need from natural disasters and so forth. Dr. Jeremy Rifkin says that Germany is finishing up stage 2 out of 5 of this project at the end of 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES0o8TpF8uU

The World Bank and IMF have been highly criticized for extremely unethical practices in the interest of giant mega corporations. (See John Perkin's book New Confessions of an Economic Hitman which was updated to double the length in 2016. Also see Naomi Klein's books The Shock Doctrine and No Is Not Enough.)

BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) have successfully formed The New Development Bank, a banking system that will be an alternative to the World Bank and the IMF (International Monetary Fund). The system is founded on the concepts of non-interference with other countries, equality, and mutual benefit. Unlike the World Bank and IMF that have been notoriously pro-corporate at great costs to the general population of human beings, The New Development Bank (NRB) and its related projects are designed to help all countries thrive without being subservient to other countries. Plans include a Contingent Reserve Arrangement (CRA) to replace the IMF, the BRICS cable (international communication not monitored by the NSA or the world banking cartel), and their alternative financial info systems to SWIFT. Already at least 13 other countries have expressed joining BRICS in these endeavors: Afghanistan, Argentina, Bangladesh, Egypt, Greece, Indonesia, Iran, Lebanon, Mexico, Nigeria, Sudan, Syria, and Turkey. The BRICS project also has international plans for helping each country get itself better societal systems for education, healthcare, transportation, and other collaborative projects to help one another thrive. This will probably eventually be a worldwide system that is not centered around corporate profits.

By collaborating and building from the local scale up, these new societal systems will be able to solve environmental problems, social problems, justice problems, economic problems, better handle natural disasters, and much more.

I hope that the United States gets its act together and follows in their footsteps. Certainly, many citizens in the US and around the world are doing that.

We are looking for apprentice instructors, leaders, and/or just groups of people who want to practice together to make themselves, their families, and/or their groups sustainable and thriving. Reach out if you want to know more.

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Other hobbies of mine have been many - board games, live music, exchanging different kinds of healing or bodywork, movies, cooking and/or eating good food, traveling, hiking, learning all kinds of new things, loving life…

• cats
• horses
• writing
• causes
• education
• dining
• exercise
• coach
• instructor
• boating
• movies
• board games
• tv
• traveling
• music
• outdoor activities
• spelunking
• scuba diving
• rock climbing
• biology
• business
• communications
• teaching
• law
• medicine
• science
• volunteering
• horse riding
• horseback riding
• alternative medicine
• alternative lifestyles
• alternative education
• alternative living
• timebanking
• new societal systems

Music, Movies, and Books

Oh so many to list that I can't even cover this subject well...

Great Video Clips About the World's Solutions:
● One Small Town (international) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV0jC9fvVK0
● One Small Town (for skeptics, USA, with some humor) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0JEaTZ9RhM
● Explanation of Single Transferable Vote by CGP Grey = best voting system
● Mixed Member Proportional Representation = 2nd best voting system
● See The School of Life's YouTube channel for 400+ short videos on how to rethink emotions, relationships with one another, and society
● Dr. Mark Williamson explains Mindfulness and gives a couple simple exercises to the audience
● See Teal Swan's several hundred videos for alternative views about emotions)

Great Video Clips About the World's Problems
● Videos by CGP Grey on YouTube “Problems With First Past the Post AKA Winner Take All” Voting

Great Full Length Video Documentaries About The World's Problems:
● Zeitgeist Addendum. This is a documentary about why our systems are not working very well. I recommend skipping the first 4 minutes of uninformative intro but after that, the info is wonderful.

Great Books About the World's Solutions:
● Holacracy by Brian Robertson – a governance style far superior to hierarchy, democracy, Sociocracy, and all forms of consent-seeking governance. It is awesome! And there are tons of free tools to learn how to use it.
● Mindfulness Workbook by John Teasdale, Mark Williams, Zindal Segal.
● Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman (also see Daniel's other books, The School of Life's 400+ videos on YouTube, and Teal Swan's several hundred videos for alternative views about emotions)
● Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein on gift economy
● Plan B 3.0 by Lester Brown, practical planning and real data on changing world paradigms that is already occurring and what it would take to upscale it [WARNING: The 1st half of the book is about the problems. The
2nd half of the book is about the solutions.]
● Time Dollars by Edgar Cahn (about timebanking success stories)
● Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (about the subconscious mind and what we think we know is sometimes illusion)
● The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (about taking an idea and making it viral)
● The End of Your World by Adyashanti on changing mind patterns
● The Power of Now by Eckert Tolle on changing mind patterns
● No More Throw-away People by Edgar Cahn about timebanking

Great Books About the World's Problems:
● Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin– about the problems and corruption caused by central banks and fractional reserve lending
● New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins – about corporate influence on world economies
● Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
● No Is Not Enough by Naomi Klein
● Plan B 3.0 by Lester Brown, practical planning and real data on changing world paradigms that is already occurring and what it would take to upscale it [WARNING: The 1st half of the book is about the problems. The
2nd half of the book is about the solutions.]
● Ragged Edge - awesome true story by Michael Zacchea and MSNBC's Ted Kemp about an American trying to train and create an Iraqi army out of Kurds, Sunnis, and Shiites when all odds were against them. It shows how all the Arab peoples from different tribes and different countries think so differently, and why, and how they are all human beings and not at all the way our government often treats them or describes them.
● Badulina - a good short read and an interesting unusual book about how to have an entirely different perspective on how we've been taught to think like victims but we could actually re-think ourselves as Kings or Queens to be much happier, but not at all in the way you probably think of as Kings and Queens. This version could make a much happier planet.

Movies
● An example is Crash, an amazing movie about how we all can affect each other every day in so many ways both to the negative, and then to the positive, whether we realize it or not. Could we choose to broaden our perspective and help ourselves and others by doing it?
● An example is Titanic, a movie about a woman who was stuck in a life that didn't fit her, but who met an out-of-the-box man who could make her see the societal conditioning she had received and helped her break out of it to become more of her true self. Despite huge tragedy, she went on to thrive in the rest of her life.
● An example is What's Eating Gilbert Grape? about a young man who was told he needed to take care of everyone else and not himself. A young out-of-the-box woman helped him break out of it to become more of his true self. He got to practice taking care of himself first and then was able to take care of other people even better. Despite huge tragedy, he and his brother went on to lead a life that would probably suit them even better.
● An example is Avatar about a rogue military guy who didn't fit in but because of hard knocks was fearless of most things and a survivor. Because of his scientist brother, he ended up helping with a scientific political project. He survived a night in the jungles of Pandora against incredible odds and ended up being taken in by an alien village so they could study his anomalies. He started out being a double agent spy for the military but began to see the problems with this old paradigm as he spent time with the aliens. When the politics got terrible on both sides and neither side could see past their own beliefs to fix the situation, after one of his friends already died in the conflict, Jake took life threatening risk to himself to do what had been done in the past to get the entire planet of aliens to listen to him. Without really knowing what he was doing but with a lot of courage and the ability to see a different possibility, he got all of them and other planet populations to quickly unite with one another to fight off the non aware humans and established friendly relations with the other humans that could see a better way.

Music
● Acapella by Kelis - a super out-of-the-box video with a twist at the end
● Great Spirit by Nahko - oh so poignant and true
● Various Music Videos by Gotye: Learnalilgivinanlovin, Easy Way Out, Thanks for Your Time,
Eyes Wide Open, Smoke & Mirrors, Bronte, Somebody I Used to Know, Hearts a Mess, etc.
● Gotye is also a progressive musician and artist who allows and encourages people to remix and share his music. This is a compilation he made from their versions of his top selling song. It amazing and is called
Gotye - Somebodies: A YouTube Orchestra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opg4VGvyi3M

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

In 1996 and 1998, I was on two multi-day caving expeditions into Lechuguilla Cave in New Mexico. At that time it had over 100 miles of mapped cave passage. At the deepest point, our cave survey team traveled in for 2 days, stopping at two different base camps and continued further to where we were surveying. The longest expedition was 9 days. The powdered aragonite on the floor of large parts of the cave looked like snow. Those were amazing trips! I still hMy Favorite Music, Movies & Books
Oh so many to list that I can't even cover this subject well...

Great Video Clips About the World's Solutions:
● One Small Town (international) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV0jC9fvVK0
● One Small Town (for skeptics, USA, with some humor) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0JEaTZ9RhM
● Explanation of Single Transferable Vote by CGP Grey = best voting system
● Mixed Member Proportional Representation = 2nd best voting system
● See The School of Life's YouTube channel for 400+ short videos on how to rethink emotions, relationships with one another, and society
● Dr. Mark Williamson explains Mindfulness and gives a couple simple exercises to the audience
● See Teal Swan's several hundred videos for alternative views about emotions)

Great Video Clips About the World's Problems
● Videos by CGP Grey on YouTube “Problems With First Past the Post AKA Winner Take All” Voting

Great Full Length Video Documentaries About The World's Problems:
● Zeitgeist Addendum. This is a documentary about why our systems are not working very well. I recommend skipping the first 4 minutes of uninformative intro but after that, the info is wonderful.

Great Books About the World's Solutions:
● Holacracy by Brian Robertson – a governance style far superior to hierarchy, democracy, Sociocracy, and all forms of consent-seeking governance. It is awesome! And there are tons of free tools to learn how to use it.
● Mindfulness Workbook by John Teasdale, Mark Williams, Zindal Segal.
● Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman (also see Daniel's other books, The School of Life's 400+ videos on YouTube, and Teal Swan's several hundred videos for alternative views about emotions)
● Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein on gift economy
● Plan B 3.0 by Lester Brown, practical planning and real data on changing world paradigms that is already occurring and what it would take to upscale it [WARNING: The 1st half of the book is about the problems. The
2nd half of the book is about the solutions.]
● Time Dollars by Edgar Cahn (about timebanking success stories)
● Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (about the subconscious mind and what we think we know is sometimes illusion)
● The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (about taking an idea and making it viral)
● The End of Your World by Adyashanti on changing mind patterns
● The Power of Now by Eckert Tolle on changing mind patterns
● No More Throw-away People by Edgar Cahn about timebanking

Great Books About the World's Problems:
● Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin– about the problems and corruption caused by central banks and fractional reserve lending
● New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins – about corporate influence on world economies
● Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
● No Is Not Enough by Naomi Klein
● Plan B 3.0 by Lester Brown, practical planning and real data on changing world paradigms that is already occurring and what it would take to upscale it [WARNING: The 1st half of the book is about the problems. The
2nd half of the book is about the solutions.]
● Ragged Edge - awesome true story by Michael Zacchea and MSNBC's Ted Kemp about an American trying to train and create an Iraqi army out of Kurds, Sunnis, and Shiites when all odds were against them. It shows how all the Arab peoples from different tribes and different countries think so differently, and why, and how they are all human beings and not at all the way our government often treats them or describes them.
● Badulina - a good short read and an interesting unusual book about how to have an entirely different perspective on how we've been taught to think like victims but we could actually re-think ourselves as Kings or Queens to be much happier, but not at all in the way you probably think of as Kings and Queens. This version could make a much happier planet.

Movies
● An example is Crash, an amazing movie about how we all can affect each other every day in so many ways both to the negative, and then to the positive, whether we realize it or not. Could we choose to broaden our perspective and help ourselves and others by doing it?
● An example is Titanic, a movie about a woman who was stuck in a life that didn't fit her, but who met an out-of-the-box man who could make her see the societal conditioning she had received and helped her break out of it to become more of her true self. Despite huge tragedy, she went on to thrive in the rest of her life.
● An example is What's Eating Gilbert Grape? about a young man who was told he needed to take care of everyone else and not himself. A young out-of-the-box woman helped him break out of it to become more of his true self. He got to practice taking care of himself first and then was able to take care of other people even better. Despite huge tragedy, he and his brother went on to lead a life that would probably suit them even better.
● An example is Avatar about a rogue military guy who didn't fit in but because of hard knocks was fearless of most things and a survivor. Because of his scientist brother, he ended up helping with a scientific political project. He survived a night in the jungles of Pandora against incredible odds and ended up being taken in by an alien village so they could study his anomalies. He started out being a double agent spy for the military but began to see the problems with this old paradigm as he spent time with the aliens. When the politics got terrible on both sides and neither side could see past their own beliefs to fix the situation, after one of his friends already died in the conflict, Jake took life threatening risk to himself to do what had been done in the past to get the entire planet of aliens to listen to him. Without really knowing what he was doing but with a lot of courage and the ability to see a different possibility, he got all of them and other planet populations to quickly unite with one another to fight off the non aware humans and established friendly relations with the other humans that could see a better way.

Music
● Acapella by Kelis - a super out-of-the-box video with a twist at the end
● Great Spirit by Nahko - oh so poignant and true
● Various Music Videos by Gotye: Learnalilgivinanlovin, Easy Way Out, Thanks for Your Time,
Eyes Wide Open, Smoke & Mirrors, Bronte, Somebody I Used to Know, Hearts a Mess, etc.
● Gotye is also a progressive musician and artist who allows and encourages people to remix and share his music. This is a compilation he made from their versions of his top selling song. It amazing and is called
Gotye - Somebodies: A YouTube Orchestra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opg4VGvyi3M
ave a great slide show about it.

Other highlights were seeing the marvel and complexity of living plants, scuba diving with multiple huge manta rays, scuba diving with 15' sharks with no cage, shipwreck penetration, watching a full moon and a sunrise near the equator at Polihale Beach in Kauai with campground neighbors doing sufi chanting/drumming, out of body experiences in India, seeing the insides of a human body in anatomy dissection lab at Sherman College for my medical degree, my first level 3 entrainment at an NSA Transformational Gate where I first felt a body experience of empathy and love for all humanity after a lifetime of believing most of them were not worth saving in any way, excitement/fear as I spoke on a stage in front of over 1000 people, each and every one of the countless times I have flown in an airplane, the first time I ever successfully climbed up an overhanging ice curtain, the first time I ever climbed 5.11, my largest giant swing ever in Hawaii, and my amazing gratitude for the education and white privilege I have enjoyed to be able to do these things and help other people with less privileges than I have had.

Teach, Learn, Share

Generally, I love to teach, learn, and share, just for the sake of doing so. I love to teach when there are people who want to learn. I love to learn when there are people who want to teach. I love to share life with people. I love to help solve problems for myself, for others, for the world. I love to meet cool people doing cool things in the world and thriving in their own ways.

I can teach many different subjects, modalities, outdoor sports, etc. Look at all the other sections of this profile. I can teach almost all of the things I have ever been interested in and I have taught almost all of them.

I'm a pretty good cook when I take the time.
I can share stories from travels and various adventures of myself and others.
I can share a smile and a hug.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can share simple powerful healing techniques for body and mind including neural repatterning, lymphatic system work, and many more. Coaching about nutrition, exercise, organizing stuff, traveling, relationships, money, mind patterns that might be getting in your way, getting in touch with the real you so you can thrive more and be more on your path, whatever that is for you, getting more of what you want from life.

An example is GSAT Group Systems Awareness Training - a way of unwinding yourself from your own mind's patterns to reduce stress, triggers and behavior patterns that you want to change. One place I stayed this year, in less than 2 hours, I changed a 2 year long pattern in a 7 year old boy who had refused to clean his room. I helped him figure out whether it was in his best interest or not, how to solve what seemed like a complex problem to him, how to do 90% of it himself and learn how so he could reproduce it without me or any other adults helping him. and how to win himself the goal of what he wanted from his parents (restored tv privileges) making it win win. He proudly showed off his work to each of his parents. We didn't even have to do any "woo woo" stuff like body work or conscious awareness work, just work with patterns and problem solving. Later I did do some bodywork with the same boy to make his spine much more flexible, and taught him to do the back walkover (gymnastics) he had been trying to do unsuccessfully for many weeks. I went on to help both the parents resolve some other patterns in their lives with each other and with other people, and to change some other patterns that were not serving them. I ended up staying with them for about 5 days and nights in 2 separate batches.

I can also help resolve conflicts between people and help them solve big life problems. With another set of clients, I stayed with them for about a week and did some GSAT and also something called Conscious Awareness Training (CAT) with each of them. I got each of them to get more of what they wanted in the relationship, to see the viewpoints of each other in new ways, and to have tools to deal with emotional triggers and patterns after I left. Then I helped them figure out how to create a student teacher relationship with a couple people so they could rescue their farm from lack of money lack of labor/help and create a win win situation. As of Oct 2015, they have a farming student intern and a woodworking intern. The actual work I did with them took much less than a whole week but I worked around their busy schedules and it allowed them to take what they learned from each session, apply it and then troubleshoot with me any glitches. We exchanged a little cash, a little barter, and a little time bank credit for it.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, England, Fiji, Germany, India, Mexico, Puerto Rico

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States