Below you'll find feedback from various clients:
Specializing in the design and delivery of transformative, experiential education.
Testimonials
This is the second year that King George Secondary School has hired David to deliver his boys program to students in the Planning 10 course. David is a pleasure to work with in so many ways. He is always willing and able to adapt the program (content, structure, and timing) to meet our school's needs. He has a holistic approach to service delivery with enhances... read more
Jessica Land
King George Community Schools Coordinator, Vancouver
The most important thing I’ve learned from this session is how important it is for the genders to be separated in the rites process so that both can be recognized and honored. This training helped me to see how youth create their own rites of passage in the absence of structured/formal ones, and how dangerous that can be.
City of Eugene
Department of Recreation, and Oregon Youth Authority, Oregon, USA
I had the great pleasure to take part in David Hatfield's "The Singing Soul" workshop last weekend. There are not enough words of admiration and delight in my vocabulary to talk about the great learning and benefit and sheer joy I felt during our time with David. Through sound and song I stretched myself beyond what I thought I was capable of doing... read more
Elfi Shaw
Haven faculty
I've attended other men's groups and really appreciated the experience of brotherhood but felt that at times the group wasn't adequately guided (sometimes topics weren't adhered to, or one person spent 5 or 10 minutes sharing even when there had been an agreement to limit the sharing to less time) and at times there was too much focus on... read more
Patrice Webb
Open Door Yoga Finance Coordinator
I appreciated David's ability to navigate some of our fragile relationships by never letting us forget our common human nature and vulnerability. I found David to be a very knowledgeable facilitator who created an environment that was positive and supportive, but did not shy away from dealing with difficult and negative existing relationships among participants... read more
Kurt Dehnel, Owner
I/O Design & Engineering