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A Message from Jack

When working with people who live on the edge,
I am constantly searching for a way that works for them and myself.
It cannot be a quick fix because my people
are used to disappointment and broken promises.
They have learned to distrust anything
that sounds too good to be true.
They know that what I have discovered,
works because their growth is evident
to themselves and others.

Benefits I Have Seen . . .

I have been able to write this book and have developed these workshops as a result of experiencing the

difference between reality and my interpretation of it.

Surviving victims of incest have developed trusting healthy relationships.

People, who were crippled by self-judgment and were powerless against the judgments of others, are free.

My clients have achieved as much self-defined success in their lives as they desire.

Because of what they have learned from me, my clients no longer need me as a therapist they do,

however, utilize me as a coach or mentor.

Minister
He is an ordained Presbyterian minister. Jack
has served in large multi-staff churches as well as
small rural churches. He is currently the minister at
Resurrection Presbyterian in Petersburg, Michigan.
It is a spiritually inclusive Christian church.

Therapist
Jack has been a licensed Master Social Worker
for 25 years and has had a private practice for 20
years. Areas of therapeutic emphasis have been
juvenile delinquents, alcohol and drug addiction,
and for the last 15 years surviving victims of sexual
abuse, specifically incest. He developed the Co-Creative therapeutic style in which the therapist, client, and their
experience of reality in the moment is utilized in their healing process.

Pipecarrier
Jack has been the Pipecarrier for the People of the Pipe Stem for 18 years. He leads both Pipe ceremonies and
sweat lodges at Bear Creek Farm.

Bear Creek Farm is a 50 acre farm near Azalia, Michigan. Jack has lived there with his wife Donna for 25 years.
They raise burros, llamas, sheep as well as numerous dogs and cats. Bear Creek Farm, in addition to being an
informal animal shelter, is also the Center for Co-Creative Therapy.

As a healer, Jack has searched all his adult life to find a process by which people can heal themselves.
He believes that healing must be developmental affecting body, mind, and spirit.
The process he teaches emerged out of his journey as a pathfinder for his people and himself.