Rick is different from many of the speakers you've probably seen before. His presentations are passionate, dynamic, sincere, and humorous as well as practical and useful. Audiences love his stories and wisdom, as well as his energetic and engaging style. He provides " take home " value for people of all walks of life and in any business. Participants will fondly, long remember his presentation. Rick has enjoyed a wonderful diversity of experiences over more than 30 years of communicating ideas, including: AT&T exhibits & promotions and conference center management, founding and operating a communications consulting firm, leading corporate and public seminars, Community Theater, radio broadcasting, and professionally producing multi-image audio-visual marketing presentations. As an expert on Human Potential, Rick is a author and international speaker. With his inspirational, warm, and humorous style Rick has captivated audiences from Australia to England and from Honolulu to Barcelona. He is a speaker of many facets, at once a storyteller, poet, and philosopher, as well as a teacher and student of life. His programs include stories, poetry, principles and processes designed to shift a person’s perspective, which opens them to a deeper self-awareness. In short, Rick inspires people to a new level of thinking about who they are, what they've got, and how to effectively bring themselves to the world. His programs result in higher self-esteem, improved interpersonal relationships, greater synergy and enhanced creativity.
On Forgiveness...
We usually think of forgiveness as a personal process involving forgiveness of people and things from our past that we feel have wronged us or caused us harm. All too often we are unwilling to forgive because we are still angry at the person or event; we even go so far as to build monuments to memorialize things that hurt us.
Fear begets anger, and anger begets hate, hate begets pain, pain begets suffering, etc, etc, etc. On the personal level all this begetting of fear based belief systems can and do rob us of our sense of safety, joy, happiness, prosperity and even our health. On a global level it threatens all life as we know it.
Imagine for a moment what life would be like if everyone on the planet forgave everyone else. All governments forgive all governments, all religions forgive all religions, all children forgive all parents, all parents forgive all children, all victims forgive all perpetrators, etc. Why, it would be so peaceful and quiet around the planet that the news media wouldn't know what to do with itself. I believe that with that kind of calm prevailing all over the planet even the weather patterns would settle down.
Can it happen? You bet it can! It all starts right here and now with you and me. We can make a commitment to forgive someone or some thing this week and begin to heal the world, one forgiveness at a time.
'Imagine all the people living life in peace.' ~John Lennon