Curriculum Vitae
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Christopher
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PERSONAL
Contact Particulars: Christopher M Meuse
16 Chestnut St.
Yarmouth NS, Canada
Date of Birth: September 20, 1951
EDUCATION
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Grade 12,
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B.A., Saint Anne's University
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B.A.,
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B.Ed., Saint Mary's University
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Masters Eq. Educating &
Counseling with Nature: Project Nature Connect
v Ph. D. Candidate
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Certified Practitioner Level
Neurolinguistic Programming (Instructor Reg Craig, Maritime School of Social
Work, Halifax NS)
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Certified Master Practitioner
of Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP-Counseling & Psychological Therapy:
Partners in Renewal, Ottawa)
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Certified Master Practitioner
Level of Quantum TLC(TM) Counseling &
Psychological Therapy
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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
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Certified Hockey Coach
(National Coaching Certification Program)
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Certified Recording Engineer
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Psychology of Exceptional
Children Course (Acadia University)
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I.E.I.E. Computer Course (Dept.
of Education, Information Economy
Initiative)
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Leadership Seminar: with instructor Dr.
Stephen Covey
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Project Wild Program: Nova Scotia Dept. of
Education & NS Dept. of Natural Resources
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Jerrold
Mundis Coaching for Writers Course, (The New York Times former editor)
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Dale Carnegie Course
CAREER EXPERIENCE
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26-years
Nova Scotia Public School Teacher
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2-years sheet metal laborer
and construction worker
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2-years maintaining &
repairing apartment buildings
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1-year laborer with local
paving company
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25-years part time musician
and audio engineer
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4-years owning and operating a
recording studio
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Volunteer Yarmouth Regional Hospital (ALC & Hospice Unit)
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Member of the Retired Nova
Scotia Teachers Union
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Award Winning Author: (3 Canada
Book Awards)
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Books:
*Messages of Hope (2017)
*One With Nature: A Day in the Life of a Lobster Fisher (2017)
*Hockey, Kids & Positive
Coaching? (2016)
*Dear Don Cherry: Does Hockey Love
Kids (1996)
http://lofeexpublishing.blogspot.com/
I helped raise three wonderful children: 1 daughter and 2
sons.
I have 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 I have had the opportunity to attend
numerous seminars, read, analyzed, synthesized, and evaluated a variety of
books related to education, and child & adult development.
Over an
eleven-year period I supervised, guided and mentored an individual diagnosed
with severe social anxiety, OCD, depression, psychosis and schizophrenia. This
was one of the most powerful learning experiences in my life! It led to years
of research and study related to possible causes, and a variety of modalities
used to treat these conditions, as well as communication with many doctors and
counsellors throughout North America, Europe and Oceania.
I have 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. I have 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 I coordinated a Grassroots Project.
I have 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. I have conducted workshops, explaining the writing process,
editing, and publication of books, and demonstrated the use of educational
software, for these organizations.
I volunteered in a
unit at a hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It was a unit where I 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.
I volunteered at
Yarmouth Regional Hospital (Rehabilitation Services) where I 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 I experienced a powerfully positive learning and life changing event. I had
a seizure and car accident which led to a 21-hour surgery to remove a massive
brain tumor.
I have had articles related to child development (self-esteem)
published in the following journals, newsletters, newspapers and web sites:
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Self-Esteem Advisory Council Service – United Kingdom
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The Canadian Association for Health, Physical
Education, and Dance
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Child Welfare Research Centre – University of
California, Berkeley
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Search
Institute: Healthy Communities, Healthy Youth – Minneapolis, MN
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Child Welfare Research Center – University of British
Columbia
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Ohio Leisure Leader, Ohio Parks & Recreation
Association
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Mind Publications: Behavioral Medicine Center –
Cleveland, TN
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Sports Psychology Today
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The South Shore Breaker – Nova Scotia
10. Yarmouth
Vanguard
11. Halifax
Chronicle Herald
12. Atlantic
Books Today
13. Youth
Sports & Sportsmanship Association – Colorado
14. Southern
California Amateur Hockey Association
15. Massachusetts
Hockey Association
16. Ontario
Minor Hockey Association
17. Minor
Hockey Life
18. USA
Hockey Officiating Program
19. Moms
Team –The Place for Mom’s In Sports
20. Florida
Sports Commissioner, Coach Jerry, Web Site
21. Hockey
Manitoba
22. Capital
Youth Hockey – New York
23. Colorado Coaches & Officials Newsletter
24. Hockey Alberta
25. www.fastsports.com
26. lofeexpublishing.blogspot.ca/
28. Southeastern District Hockey Association –
Florida
29. Arvada
Hockey Association – Colorado
30. Capital
Amateur Hockey Association – Ohio
31. Oklahoma
City Youth Hockey Association
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
https://www.nlpca.com/DCweb/nlpeducationamagnificentop.html
“NLP may be the most powerful vehicle for
change in existence...” Modern Psychology
https://louiselebrun.ca/whatis/
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”. https://wel-systems.com/what-is-wel-systems/
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”!
https://wel-systems.com/what-is-wel-systems/
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) http://www.ecopsych.com/
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.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/heart-and-soul-healing/201303/dr-herbert-benson-s-relaxation-response
Plato
once said: “The greatest mistake 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!”
