Thom Hartmann is an internationally known speaker on psychotherapy and communications, an author, and an innovator in the fields of psychiatry, ecology, and the intersection of spiritual and cultural transformation. The founder of The New England Salem Childrení Village (1978) and The Hunter School (1997), he has led national innovations in the areas of residential treatment for abused children and private/public education for learning-disabled children.
A recurrent theme in Hartmann's work is that all true and lasting cultural change begins with personal change propagating through enough people to reach a critical mass. Thus, he urges us all to be conscious and open to the world, showing that doing all you can to save the planet and improve the human condition requires both personal spiritual connection and global intent. He points out that history demonstrates that even the tiniest and most anonymous actions can have world-changing ramifications, and that when stories change, history changes. (Good examples from the 20th century are the stories that women in America should not be allowed to vote, or that blacks should have separate facilities and schools. Once these centuries-old toxic stories began to break down, cultural change came almost immediately.) Other stories that must change include the ideas that our creator is angry with us, that humans are inherently evil (and it's a woman's s fault), and that sin and punishment are appropriate models in a culture (as opposed to imbalance and balance).
Hartmann is the award-winning, best-selling author of eleven books currently in print. He is the former executive director of a residential treatment program for emotionally disturbed and abused children, and has helped set up and support hospitals, famine relief programs, schools, and communities for orphaned or blind children in India, Uganda, Australia, Colombia, and the United States. Rostered with the State of Vermont as a psychotherapist, he was the originator of the revolutionary "Hunter/Farmer Hypothesis" to understand the psychiatric condition known as Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD). He also synthesized the í"Younger/Older Culture modelí" for describing the underpinnings - and possible solutions - to the worldí ecological and socio-political crises, suggesting that our problems are grounded in our cultural ístoriesí which go back thousands of years. His most recent books (2000) are íThom Hartmanní Complete Guide to ADHD, and The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, with a foreword by Joseph Chilton Pearce and afterword by Neale Donald Walsch. Hartmann's books have been written about in Time and many other magazines, he has been on NPR and BBC radio and CNN television (among others), mentioned on the front page of The Wall Street Journal, and has spoken to hundreds of thousands of people on five continents over the past two decades. One of his books was selected for inclusion in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian for its visionary use of information technology to produce positive social, economic, and educational change in medicine. As a result of his book The Prophet's Way he received an unsolicited invitation in August 1998 for a personal audience with Pope John Paul II at the Pope's summer palace on Lake Gandolfo. His book The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight brought about an unsolicited invitation for him to participate in the weeklong AGNT meeting in September 1999 with His Holiness The Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India.
Hartmann holds several degrees in various aspects of complimentary medicine (1971-78), studied acupuncture in Beijing (1986), and is a licensed and certified NLP Practitioner (1994) and NLP Trainer (1996) with the Society of NLP. For this latter, he was trained by Leif Roland and Richard Bandler, who wrote the foreword to Hartmann's NLP book Healing ADD.
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Thom Hartmann
PO Box 247
Montpelier, VT 05601
(435) 309-7271
Website: www.thomhartmann.com
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www.healingadd.com
www.lasthours.com
www.greatestsecret.com
www.wisdomschool.com