
In 2002 Patch Adams told me in a packed seminar room how to change my life. Whoopee, it worked!
It's all about attitude.
I'm not an expert, but if I were, attitude would be my thing. How do we choose our reality and regulate our emotional responses? It's about being permanently grateful for everything, not needing to change anything, but knowing that at anytime, if you want to, you can.
A clown at heart, I also write and do language training.
Background: United World College, Yale College, travel around Europe, medical qualification in Germany, internship in Grenada, tutor at a medical school in St. Vincent, doctoral thesis in social and preventive medicine, adult, child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy in central Switzerland and Zurich.
Clown consultant since 2002. CELTA and LCCI Foundation Certificate in teaching business English with experience in 1:1 and group training CEF level A1-C2 in technical, general and business English. I write, have written and will write lots of things.
Essay: Classroom Clown in My First year in the Classroom Anthology edited by Stephen Rogers Published 2009 by Adams Media.
Work less, be more.
Diamonds are carbon compounds, gold is a metal and money is mostly paper, plastic and air.
Sail fast, live slow. (Bequia)
Humans invented time by watching shadows. Progression from sun dials to Rolexes hasn't made it any more or less real.
An eternal beginner, that's what I am; only just beginning to understand the world and myself. I love learning and am really good at it. I especially love making and embracing mistakes.
Not the words and attitude of an expert, but it's great to be able to discover wonderful, new things about the same old condition of being human.
I'm not offering answers. But perhaps there'll be a few good questions, or an interesting tale or two.
Thanks for your interest. Best wishes and blessings. Until soon.