Hi, I’m David.
I’ll be real, a website isn’t the best way to get to know me… I’d prefer you get to know me in person, on the phone, over tea, or someplace in wild nature, or better yet, in the kitchen. You’ll get a better feel for who I am in a conversation about your life and mine. But since we’re here…
I’m a feeler, a thinker, an artist, a dad, a leader, a student, an explorer, a risk taker, an activist, an inquisitor, a non-conformist, a surfer, a lover of life and the big questions, most of all… “How do we make the most of our short time on this planet?” As a sensitive and inquisitive person growing up, there were very few safe havens in this culture of domination and competition, and so I suffered to find my community, my purpose, my voice, my strength, and my identity as a man. It was learning through doing and working with mentors and coaches in decolonized ways that brought me here.
My passion for teaching & coaching came from my own journey of self-actualization and reinvention. Iron John Coaching is a project I’ve developed to pass on what I’ve learned from my trials and training. I aim to be of service to others who are in pursuit of the big questions too, who know there’s something more to make of their life but they’re just not sure how to get to it. My practice is the result of my life’s-work and it is deeply personal to me. Serving others as a guide through life change is what I live and love to do.
I’m always a student as well as a teacher. Life-long learning through community education is one way I actualize my passions and my offering to clients. Over the past 25 years, I have worked with non-profits and social enterprises teaching and learning with Youth and Adults from all over the world with the aim of creating better functioning communities centered on social justice, compassionate understanding, and empowering human connection.
My belief in transformation and human potential stems from the support I still receive from many teachers. While some are coaches, therapists, mentors, and teachers dotting my path, many guides are songs, rituals, plants, animals, and ancient ways i vow to keep alive today.
I look forward to meeting you…
David
Education • Training • Certifications
P. David Stockhausen CSFCC, CCT, IAOTRC, received a Bachelor of Science in Human Development and Family Systems from the University of Vermont in 2001 where he focused on poverty, housing insecurity, and the effect of real scarcity on mental health outcomes. He trained professionally in Applied Social Work & Community Mental Health at Howard Community Services, The Committee on Temporary Shelter (COTS), and the YMCA in Burlington VT, spanning nearly a decade.
Building on a passion for deep ecology, in 2009 gained his Permaculture Design Certificate from the Urban Permaculture Institute in San Francisco, and in 2010, his Teacher’s Certificate from the Permaculture Institute of Australia, where he trained with Geoff & Nadia Lawton as a teacher’s assistant. Time in Australia inspired ongoing professional work in community skills education on farms, through city government offices, and various non-profits.
David continual investments in C.E. credits have built on certificates in Skills For Change, Cooperative Communication, Life Coaching, Mediation, and Body Work through the Folkloom School as a student of Nancy Shanteau. David is also a graduate of the International Association of Trauma Recovery Coaching (IAORTC) and works as a certified Trauma Recovery Coach. Through the years, David has gained certificates through trainings in Internal Family Systems, Positive Intelligence, Non-Violent Communication (NVC), Anger Management, Grief Work, Sacred Masculinity and Psychedelic Integration to enhance his skills and client offerings.
Over the past 20 years, he has worked with non-profits and social enterprises teaching and learning with Youth and Adults from all over the world with the aim of creating better functioning communities centered on justice, understanding, and human connection. During the COVID19 pandemic, he acted as a volunteer facilitator with MENtors Driving Change, a non-profit focused on emotional literacy education for men and boys.
David balances his career learning with work as a professional artist. He often uses the kitchen, the farm, the stage, the written word, and the forest as a classroom for youth and adults to create multidisciplinary learning experiences. In these decolonized vocational settings, lessons take on a new practical significance as student’s understanding crystalizes through various creative mediums.
Life-long learning through community education a way David actualizes his passions and his offering to clients. He vows to always be a student as well as a teacher.
His passion for teaching & coaching comes from his own journey of trauma recovery, grief work, men’s work, anti-racism, self-actualization and reinvention. David believes that transformation and human potential stems from the support he still receives from many coaches, therapists, mentors, and teachers along his path.
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