Bio 2. Longer version
Pip grew up in rural Australia where he fell in love with
the landscape at an early age. He began his working life as
a P.E. teacher 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.
When his marriage ended, Pip devastated by the loss of his
relationship, realized that though he was successful in the
material world he had done little inner work. He traveled
to the United States to attend numerous relationship skills
seminars and workshops. Through his learning and coming to
terms with his family history, Pip began to understand the
terrible impact caused by 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.
More recently, Pip has been working 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 have received favorable
publicity on ABC radio stations across Australia. 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 is 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.”
*Conferencing (A facilitated large group collaborative mediation
process)
Pip Cornall
USA 541 535 6546
Australia 612 8230 0754
Bio 1. Short Version
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