Sometimes Seeing Something Differently Can Open Our Eyes to New Possibilities
About JP
I'm an educator and facilitator whose professional experience and personal journey have shaped the work I do today.
After earning my degree from The University of Texas at Austin, I built a successful 35-plus-year career in the corporate world. Along the way, I discovered that the work I enjoyed most was helping adults learn, and I was fortunate enough to spend more than 20 years facilitating instructor-led training for audiences ranging from frontline employees to senior executives.
Throughout my career, I've had the opportunity to teach people from many different professional backgrounds—from those just beginning their careers and small business owners to senior executives at some of the country's largest corporations. My job was to help people build skills they could use to become more effective in their work. But I learned that sometimes the best way to help someone understand a concept was to help them connect it to something familiar in their own life. Once it clicked personally, they could often see how to apply it professionally, too. I've also trained people throughout the United States and Canada, as well as internationally, which gave me the opportunity to work with people from many different backgrounds, perspectives, and cultures.
Years later, my professional experience as an educator and facilitator took on a very personal meaning. After going through a difficult relationship of my own, I found myself doing what I had encouraged others to do for years: learning, asking questions, looking at information from different perspectives, and considering how it applied to my own life. That experience eventually led me to create Red Flags & Resilience.
Today, I bring together what I've learned through research, professional experience, and my own personal experience. As an educator and facilitator, not a therapist or medical professional, my goal isn't to tell anyone what their relationship means or what they should do. It's to provide information, ask questions worth considering, and create opportunities for people to look, think, and discover for themselves.
Red Flags & Resilience Workshop
If something in your relationship feels off and you're trying to understand what may be happening, this self-paced workshop gives you an opportunity to explore:
- How relationship stress can affect your mind and body
- Behaviors and patterns that may show up in some relationships
- Real-life stories and the experiences of others
- Qualities and behaviors that can contribute to a healthy relationship
- Possible next steps based on your own circumstances
- Ways to care for yourself as you look toward your own future
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A Final Word
If you’re visiting this site because something in your relationship doesn't quite make sense—or because someone you care about is struggling—you don't have to have all the answers before you begin looking. Sometimes learning something new, asking a different question, or looking at an experience from another perspective can help you see something you hadn't seen before.
You can take your time. You can ask questions. And you can decide for yourself what you discover means for you.
