- Born
in
Christchurch NZ ex English/Scottish/Welsh/Cornish genes
- Christian Science religion family
- Fendalton
PS/Christchurch Boys' High School
- Baptised Anglican about 12 yo.
- Aimless jobsearch
- Clerk
for A.R.
Guthries Customs Agency
- 12
months navigator
training RNZAF (got lost once too often)
- Riccarton
Carpet
Factory
- National
Service:
birthday ballot 3 Fd Rgt RNZA artillery - 9 years
- Teacher
Training:
Christchurch Teachers' College
- BA
& MA
Hons (Education): University of Canterbury
- smoker for 5 years ... lungs
still paying the price
- Teaching
Papanui
Primary School/ Elmwood Primary School
- Dinghy
sailing: OK
dinghies
- Fly
Fishing (trout)
- Deer
Stalking
(Assn & Search &Rescue - macho period - slightly deaf)
- Married
Jacinth; baptised Catholic
- Moved
to Perth WA,
Churchlands Teachers' College
- Wonderful
son
born 1976
- Separated
> divorced 1980
- Rajneesh:
Bodhi
Akarmo approx 1985 > India x 2; many strange
workshops
- World
trip - Australia / UK/
USA/Canada/NZ to find myself but found everyone else. Annoyed
my
Director, who couldn't see the point.
- Merino
(Psychodrama) Group Dynamics training from 1986 (Wasley)
- NLP
training from
approx 1989 for 10 years.
- Jacinth
passed away in Canberra:
Resumed parenting
- 'Money
& You' and related stuff. / much failed multi-level effort.
- Reduced
workload to
2/3 about 1993 ECU
- Redundancy
package about 1997
- Unprofitable
counselling / training practice
- Joined
Toastmasters > ATM-G/ AG x 2
-
Valley of Death ... lost my soul for a couple of years ... bad
relationships, etc; learning time :-(
- 2nd
NLP Masters
(Rex Sikes) about 1999 - thanks guys.
- Moved
to Morley
2000
- Sessional
teaching
ECU incl. two trips to beautiful ChiangMai in Northern Thailand(mostly
IT)
- CELTA
2004
- China
September
2005 (Teaching English ... as a foreign 'expert'
i.e. I can more or less speak my own language.
)
- This
is a very satisfying time for me ... each to his own of course ... my
glass is very much half full.
How to make myself useful? (Living in an attitude of gratitude.)
- Tennis
is coming along; discovering more of the local area and neighboring
city ... Tianjin
... very happy living on campus in an industrial area 60
minutes
and AUD$1 by bus from Tj.
- China
May, 2008 Stll
Teaching Oral English ... as a native speaker. Interested in
the
difference between useful English and pretty English
- Often
hazy, occasional smog,
sometimes a healthily boisterous breeze, which can distress the
students who come from stiller regions ... I grew up leaning into the
breeze, so maybe it is one of the very many things that remarkably
enough makes it feel like home :-)
- China,
December 2008. Biggish workload ... paid of course ...
reconceptualising what I think that iI am doing, and what I should.
- Exercise
in local gym, walking (with students), TaiChi, yoga, tennis,
holosync, EFT, residual NLP, guitar? Chinese?
- With an eye on my future ...
what to offer? Most interested in fostering functionality
insofar as I am able. English as a life expander rather than
an epaulette. What can I be enjoying doing in ten years time, given
that I may be surprised! :-)
- Looking to help people who will
help themselves, and others ... to they who have shall be given!!!
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