Below you'll find feedback from various clients:
Specializing in the design and delivery of transformative, experiential education.
Testimonials
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
It's important to understand that Soul Singing with David Hatfield is not just about music. It's about discovery. There is, of course, the joy and the excitement and the deep satisfaction that come out of personal vocal exploration. But it's not just vocal. You think that it's your voice that's exploring, but you discover that in fact it... read more
Julie Kehler
Canmore, Alberta
There’s a great mix of men at Manology: age, race, sexual orientation; it’s all there. And there’s a genuine spirit of welcome and inquiry in the group—no orthodoxy, just a bunch of smart, emotionally open guys exploring issues of maleness.
Colin Thomas
Theatre Critic, The Georgia Straight
I've read and listened to men and boys for 55 years. This is the first time I've felt such truth in a man's articulation of male reality. As a Grandmother, youth and family worker, a wife, and sister and daughter, thank you for doing this work David.
Participant
BC Alternate Education Conference
To say this past weekend participating in the Singing Soul with David and the group of us has impacted me is an understatement. It wasn't fireworks or bells ringing, but a deepening and diving in to a place I had been waiting for, for a long time, a part of myself I had thought was gone. Soulfulness was a word that came up during the weekend, and I think I... read more
Maureen Cameron
Creston, BC