Messages of Hope
"Messages of Hope" is a Canada Book Award Winner “in
recognition of dedication, passion and outstanding accomplishment and
contribution to the publishing world”.
The book contains short articles and true stories
written with the hope of inspiring a positive approach to one’s journey through
life. These Messages will offer insights for parents, educators, health care
professionals and politicians that will result in increased cooperation between
all members of society and, in doing so, lead to a greater positive
co-operation between individuals and country … for the "common good"
of humanity and our planet.
The Messages also offer suggestions on how to turn our
experiences of pain and suffering into the creation of a human being with
greater understanding, compassion and loving-kindness towards self and others.
We can learn to know and experience a life of joy and happiness. This is not an
illusion…this is a noble truth.
https://christophermeuse.blogspot.com/
About theAuthor 
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PERSONAL
Christopher M. Meuse
Yarmouth NS, Canada
EDUCATION
*** Ph. D. Candidate: Applied Ecopsychology
*** Grade 12, Yarmouth Memorial High School
*** B.A., Saint Anne's University
*** B.A., Dalhousie University
*** B.Ed., Saint Mary's University
*** Masters Eq. Educating & Counseling with Nature: Project Nature Connect
*** Certified Practitioner Level Neurolinguistic Programming (Instructor Reg Craig, Maritime School of Social Work, Halifax NS)
*** Certified Master Practitioner of Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP-Counseling & Psychological Therapy: Partners in Renewal, Ottawa)
*** Certified Master Practitioner Level of Quantum TLC(TM) Counseling &
Psychological Therapy
*** 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
*** Certified Hockey Coach (National Coaching Certification Program)
*** Certified Recording Engineer
*** Psychology of Exceptional Children Course (Acadia University)
CAREER EXPERIENCE
*** 26-years Nova Scotia Public School Teacher
*** 2-years sheet metal laborer and construction worker
*** 2-years maintaining & repairing apartment buildings
*** 1-year laborer with local paving company
*** 30-years part time musician and audio engineer
*** 4-years owning and operating a recording studio
*** Volunteer Yarmouth Regional Hospital (ALC & Hospice Unit)
*** Member of the Retired Nova Scotia Teachers Union
*** Award Winning Author: (3 Canada Book Awards)
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/
Chris has 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 40 years Chris has had the opportunity to attend numerous seminars, read, analyzed, synthesized, and evaluated a variety of books related to education, and child & adult development. He has spent hundreds of hours researching and studying research related to possible causes, and a variety of modalities used to treat numerous mental conditions, as well as communication with many doctors and counsellors throughout North America, Europe and Oceania.
Chris has 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. He has 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. He has 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. He has conducted workshops related to the writing process, editing, and publication of books, and demonstrated the use of educational software, for these organizations.
Chris volunteered in a unit at a hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It was a unit where he 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.
As a volunteer at Yarmouth Regional Hospital (Rehabilitation Services) Chris visited patients who had limited social interaction due to mobility, loneliness, limited family visits, or physical ability to leave their room.
In 2013 Chris experienced a powerfully positive learning and life changing event when he had a seizure and car accident which led to a 21-hour surgery to remove a massive brain tumor.
Throughout the years Chris has had articles related to child development (self-esteem) published in the following journals, newsletters, newspapers and web sites:
2. The Canadian Association for Health, Physical Education, and Dance
3. Child Welfare Research Centre – University of California, Berkeley
4. Search Institute: Healthy Communities, Healthy Youth – Minneapolis, MN
5. Child Welfare Research Center – University of British Columbia
6. Ohio Leisure Leader, Ohio Parks & Recreation Association
7. Mind Publications: Behavioral Medicine Center – Cleveland, TN
8. Sports Psychology Today
9. 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/
27. www.askcoachwolff.com/
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
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)
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.
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!”
