 "David is a truth-speaker with rock-solid integrity."- Shakil Choudhury, Program Director, Anima Leadership. |
BiographyDavid Hatfield is a leadership consultant and facilitator focusing on masculinity, conflict transformation, rites of passage, and improvisational a cappella singing. He has 15 years experience with culturally diverse youth and adult populations including public and alternative schools, health care and social service agencies, prisons, wilderness-based rites of passage, and residential programs. As a specialist in male issues, David is a powerful guide in exploring notions of masculinity and a catalyst in illuminating and supporting new possibilities for both genders. He is an inspired instructor of improvisational a cappella singing. David is currently pursuing an M.Ed. in Social Ecology through the University of Western Sydney. He also has completed a 5 week residential intensive training in Process Oriented Psychology at the Process Work Institute of Portland, Oregon. David collaborates with a growing number of organizations as well as delivering his own programs as an independent facilitator. His engaging program design and facilitation is masterful and has been contracted nationally and internationally since 1998. He has 6 years experience with the Vancouver School Board as a youth and family worker and special needs teaching assistant. His 10 years in the B.C. and Alberta health care systems included positions in psychiatry, physiotherapy and rehabilitation medicine settings. In his music background he has worked as a touring percussionist, choral director, instructor of improvisational a cappella singing, bass player and singer. David has won numerous music scholarships including trainings at the Banff Centre for the Arts, and Simon Fraser University. He was a noted high-school basketball player in Calgary and is a life-long athlete. David's professional associations include: Canadian coordinator for International Men's Day: www.internationalmensday.com Advisory Board with the Nanaimo Men's Resource Centre: nanaimomen.com Associate with Anima Leadership: www.animaleadership.com Contracted ServicesDavid is a guest faculty member at The Haven, a curriculum coordinator with the Summer Youth Leadership Seminar at Lester B. Pearson College, was a lead facilitator with Power of Hope, and was the Program Director of the SafeTeen Boys Program. He has co-led Pathways to Manhood, a wilderness-based rite of passage program for boys and their fathers in Australia and New Zealand. His masculinity work has been featured on the TV showsWinds of Change and You, Me and the Kids. David has co-authored One small book, Eight Big Questions, about making change with Lester Pearson College, and co-authored the facilitation guide for the SWOVA Respectful Relationships in-school program. In his specialization on male issues he has worked with over 20,000 young and adult males. He has taught vocal improvisation nationally and internationally since 1997. He has been a keynote speaker and featured presenter at conferences including:
He has presented his work to the following organizations:
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