When you keep your truth in front of you and have the courage to keep moving toward it, through anything that arises, you live at your best. – Richard Wagamese
My personal mission is to live a life without regrets and to help others discover and achieve their own potential. I do this by displaying kindness, compassion, empathy, love and respect towards myself, others and nature around me.
My training is diverse and includes:
- Professional Instructor (PID)
- Mental Health including Critical Incident Stress Management, Psychological First Aid, Traumatic Loss Support Group Facilitation, Suicide Intervention, Bereavement, Mindfulness, Addiction Medicine, Thought Field Therapy, Motivational Interviewing and CBT for Helping Professionals
- Horticulture and Horticultural Therapy
- Career Development Practitioner (CCDP)
- Fine Arts
- NCCP Coach Education
As a certified Mental Health First Aid Canada Instructor, I provide Mental Health First Aid Basic training focused on adults interacting with adults in all environments. You can contact me directly to arrange a private training for your group or register for an upcoming training of mine open to the public through Pacific First Aid Ltd.
My STRESS BUSTERS workshop is both educational and practical, providing information about stress, opportunities to learn and practice skills for building stress hardiness and resilience.
As a Career Development Practitioner (CCDP), I work with others to help them identify their unique temperament style by facilitating an engaging personal and professional development workshop called Personality Dimensions®.
As a Therapeutic Horticulturist, I use connecting with nature and engaging in gardening activities to help others return to, establish and maintain emotional, physical and social health.
As an Artist, I have been creating art for more than 30 years. Art for me is both therapeutic and a key form of self-expression. Art is soothing and nurturing and I believe helps us to be healthier.
I am multidimensional and the sum of all my experiences.
Cliff, I really like how you have laid out your site. Clean, just the right amount of information with easy links to research more in depth, and smart visuals. Congrats!
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Thank you Derek. Your support as a friend means so much to me. I’m so grateful to have you in my life.
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Direct and from the heart: It’s the way you truly are and the composition and content of your site are imbued with this. Congrats too!
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Thank you for your encouraging words Carol. They mean a lot to me.
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Cliff, you are amazing! Im on your site because Im about to recommend you to a friend 🙂 your depth and connection, frankness and empathy, and command of the resources, subject and ability to impart knowledge are a tremendous model. Thank you for being such a gift.
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Michelle, thank you so much for your encouraging comments. I’m so grateful to be home in my “safe” surrounding this morning here in the Eagle Harbour area. That said our training the previous two days was an amazing experience for me. I felt exhausted at the end of the training yesterday but today feel full of life. I attribute that to the Volunteer Victoria group being so receptive to expanding their minds to what mental health entails and how they can become better mental health first aiders. I was so grateful for the insight you shared and the thought provoking questions you raised based on your own experiences. Your rock! Have a great day and prioritize that self-care for yourself…breathe.
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Thank you so much Cliff for the stress management busters training in Mosaic today. It was powerful.
Mona
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You are very welcome Mona. I’m grateful for your feedback and looking forward to working with you and your colleagues again for Mental Health First Aid. Have a great TGIF! Self-care rules!
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Thank you Cliff you are great instructor for helping everyone stress level going down. I won’t forget everything you have taught me about stress relief and self care! Thank you very much Cliff! You are the best! Hope to see you again and to be your friends!
Jacky T
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Thanks so much Jacky for the very encouraging words. You’re DBA team is fortunate to have you on it. Your gentleness, kindness and compassion make you a great MHF Aider too. Yes, please keep in touch and keep up the daily self-care.
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I was lucky enough to be a part of a workshop led by Cliff. His hands on knowledge on different personality dimensions and stress handling is truly fantastic. I thoroughly enjoyed the session. He taught us some exercises and moves to ‘bust the stress’ called stress busters. They really work. Keep up doing the great work you’re doing, Cliff. Hope to see you again soon.
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Thank you for the feedback Harris. I hope you are able to achieve your career goals very soon. You are an amazing talent and confident speaker.
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