Tom is a facilitator, coach, guide, compassionate mentor. Since 2004 he has trained with healing arts pioneer Tom Monte, completing 4 Levels of certification as a Compassionate Integration Counselor. He is schooled in the transformational impact of diet, having graduated from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York with a Certificate in Health Coaching. He leads Men’s Awareness and Alternatives to Violence Project workshops for prison inmates and has facilitated transformational men’s groups for years in the New York metro area. And in no particular order: Tom served as a 2nd Lt., 1st Lt., and Captain in the United States Marine Corps; leading men and learning leadership with one of the storied organizations in history. He led a successful career in media sales and was on both great sales teams and lousy ones, distilling the best aspects of leadership and human behavior from a tough profession. Tom studied and sat in ceremony with Ecuadorian Shaman in the Andes Mountains and Amazon jungle, and gone deep into the teachings of David Deida, Carlos Casteneda, Joseph Campbell, John Perkins, Maturana and Varela and many others. He contemplated the Zen Koan Who Is In? at an Ashram in India and completed the first Shift Men’s Initiation in CA. Tom explored his mortality after a diagnosis of Aplastic Anemia, a potentially fatal blood disease. Spent a full month in isolation in Sloan Kettering Hospital undergoing a bone-marrow transplant. And documented the ordeal and recovery. He is a proud husband and father living in Nyack, NY.