Pip’s work really falls within a holistic wellness umbrella—grounded in the knowledge that everything and everyone is deeply connected to everything and everyone. His areas of focus include men’s wellness, corporate wellness and environmental wellness.

Men’s Wellness: In its own right Pip’s sustainable masculinity work is visionary—empowering men to build healthy masculinities—to develop a new male paradigm—a paradigm that values women and includes them in all decision making. This is work vital to the very survival of the planet because the old male paradigm still dominates many aspects of our lives—operating as an unnamed and often unseen force. For example when men are violent, or promote porn, or when corporations harm the planet through their business practices, those actions impact the ability of others to enjoy optimum health and wellness. The solutions to those problems begin with raising awareness and consciousness.

Pip has worked extensively with men and boys including juvenile justice in America and Australia, with gang kids in California and was a family and couples mediator as well as court mediator in Oregon. His workshops for Olympic athletes within the Australian Sports Commission have been highly successful for reducing sexism within the teams.

Corporate Wellness: Pip and his life partner Grace Gawler, an international wellness consultant, are corporate trainers utilising eco-adventure settings for leadership, wellness and spirituality programs. Their training tours include redwood raft trips in Oregon and Spa based wilderness training near Byron Bay in AustraliaIn this work. Pip blends skills learned from a background in PE, outdoor education, juvenile justice, communication coaching, court mediation, and yoga therapy.

Books: Pip is the author of a series of short books for men including “Sustainable Masculinity” and “Kicking a Goal for Masculinity.”
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“Pip’s book is a step in the right direction in developing more awareness towards a healthier masculinity.”

Kris Massie, Australian Football League player for the Adelaide Crows

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 Bio - Longer Version: Pip grew up in rural Australia where he fell in love with the landscape at an early age, consequently he began his working life as a P.E. teache, specializing in outdoor education. Later he continued his work with youth and adults via an adventure company which he ran with his wife. They taught windsurfing from their coastal farm base, river trips and cross country skiing from their ski lodge in Jindabyne.

Devastated when his marriage ended, Pip realized that whilst he was successful in the material world and looked good on the outside, he had done little inner growth work, and was a mess on the inside. He traveled to the United States to study men’s personal growth. This path caused him to come to terms with his violent/alcoholic family history and how he was negatively impacted by Australian male socialization. At the same time, he also witnessed other men stepping out of the mould and changing. He experienced the healing potential of men and women speaking their truth about troublesome issues and consequently moving beyond a position of blame.

While continuing his studies, Pip maintained his love of the outdoors by teaching skiing and rafting in Northern California. Concerned by Columbine, other school shootings and increasing teen violence, he began to study ways in which young people could acquire skills to resolve conflicts peacefully and live more positive lives.

Over the years, Pip has worked with teens and pre-teens in a variety of settings. In the Oregon school system, Pip has taught and established peer mediations. In the San Francisco Bay Area, he assisted ‘Challenge Days’ with high school and college teens including teenage gang members. In the California Shasta Mountain Ranges, Pip co-facilitated rights of passage for teenagers and on the Klamath River he worked on raft adventures for troubled youth and young leaders for social change.

In Australia Pip worked with the Australian Sports Commission (ASC) to address issues around harassment and abuse in sports. His workshops for Olympic athletes within the ASC have been highly successful. His programs on sustainable Masculinity have received favorable publicity on ABC radio stations across Australia and on National Public Radio in the USA. Pip’s workshops in Australia and the United States focus on male gender issues including violence and sexual assault prevention. Pip successfully uses conferences* to resolve existing harassment and gender related disputes, including gender reconciliation.

Pip has been a conference* convenor with the NSW department of Juvenile Justice in their widely acclaimed restorative justice programs. He actively promotes conferences for resolving disputes in the workplace, schools and communities and teaches yoga, meditation and stress reduction in Australia and the US.

Pip stresses communication skills as the main tool for building partnership and foundation of his work. His groundbreaking positive and ethical communications workshops are a synthesis of the many communication modalities he has studied and taught.

The most striking features of Pip’s work arise from the fact that he is much more than a theorist; he has been in the place where many men are stuck today. He has paid the price for his masculinization; he has been abusive, he has hurt the people he loved and has struggled to change himself. Not surprisingly his workshops and seminars are conducted from a place of care and compassion for men who are similarly ensnared. Consequently his sessions have the potential to help participants make significant and lasting changes.

His message is one of hope and inspiration. There is nothing inherently wrong with men! It is not men’s fault that so much violence exists in our world; we’ve been socialized to be that way in order to perpetrate the dominator model. However we bear the consequences of our male socialization such as ruined marriages, shallow relationships with our children and friends, high suicide rates and innumerable addictions. As we do our healing work we are helping not just ourselves but the whole world to heal; to become less violent. As he points out, “When you see men/boys, father/sons, gang- kids, men in prison, or mixed gender groups drop their masks and speak from their truth, there is not a dry eye in the room; at these times we experience the beauty that lives inside all of us and the future seems very hopeful.”