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Dave's Journey |
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Dave's Journey |
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As a visionary practitioner in human development and whole person health and healing, Dave tailors coaching and consulting services to meet his clients’ needs, and remains committed to collaborations on educational experiences. He has recently co-created the online course, Meditation and the Art of Self-Love. |
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HeartVoice In 2003, Dave founded and became CEO of HeartVoice, LLC, which helps people reconnect with their true nature, and reclaim their birthright of Peace, Love, and Joy. He integrated various healing modalities in Remembering Your HeartVoice: The Guidebook to support this deeper, transformative process of creative change. Dave also collaborated with local, national, and international corporations and non-profit organizations on state-of-the-art, hands-on programs for professional and organizational development. |
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Creative Change In the 1980s, Dave (and Char) established a wholistic education, counseling, and consultation practice, the Center for Creative Change. He developed the Creative Change model to support individuals, families, and organizations to effectively transform growth crises into opportunities for inspired action and healthy change. The Center offered dynamic workshops on stress and resilience, meditation, yoga, whole person health, and related topics. Intensive long-term groups included the Self-Mastery, Life*Works: The Way of the Heart, and Energetic Painting programs, and the multidisciplinary business initiative, The Mastermind Group. With his team, Dave co-authored an innovative series of literature-based activities and books for teachers, students, and parents called Life skills: Dealing with change in a complex world. He also contributed the invited lead article, Journey of a Lifetime, for Perspective magazine. |
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Private Practice Along with his agency activities, Dave co-founded the first comprehensive, patient-centered pain management program in southern New England that integrated an interprofessional approach with a family and community support model. |
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Community Mental Health Specialist As a licensed psychologist, Dave coordinated mental health agency services for a town school system and related area organizations. He consulted with the Board of Education, superintendents, principals, and PTOs to improve communication throughout the system, and conducted workshops for all stakeholders. In addition to counseling responsibilities, Dave also created a Positive Parenting (DCYS model) program and newspaper column. |
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Hospital Director With this move, Dave assumed responsibility for a monthly newsletter on drug and alcohol research and treatment issues, facility statistics, and performance evaluation workshops for State of CT agencies. He also facilitated an interdisciplinary task force to create a pioneering educational model and chart system for the hospital’s drug and alcohol treatment programs. |
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Yoga Center Director During the late 1970s, Dave expanded his interest in developmental changes, spirituality, and growth with intensive study of yoga philosophy and practice. He received initiation by Swami Rama of the Himalayan tradition, was certified to teach hatha yoga and meditation, and directed a center in Texas. |
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Loyola University Faculty In 1972, he created and taught a popular life-span psychology curriculum for undergraduate and graduate students. Dave supervised human relations training and communication skills groups, initiated groundbreaking studies in his field, and co-authored a national symposium book, Moral Development: Current theory and research. He was an invited speaker and conference presenter, a reviewer for Science magazine and other journals, and a consultant on curriculum development and research for the Institute of Pastoral Studies. |
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Early Education Since childhood, Dave has been intrigued by growth and change in nature and all living beings. Eventually, he focused this interest in his study of human life span changes, and received his PhD in developmental psychology from Michigan State University. |
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