In this episode of Find Your Sparkle with Jen her guest, John Farrell shares some of his fascinating journey to inspire, influence and impact you!

Having left his home country of New Zealand over 30 years ago, John has experienced a life of extremes, from working with some of the richest people in the world to living the last 10 years in Myanmar, Burma a country not recognised as being 3rd world. The opening sentence in his future book reads: "As I sit down to begin writing in the middle of a coup, the book begins in the middle of a coup". What has he learnt?

He left home in New Zealand to go sailing and spent the next 20 years sailing on yachts racing in Europe, culminating in being the chef on an 18 crew 80foot sailing boat doing one of the more dangerous races in the world the Fastnet in the UK before shifting to safer powerboats, where he eventually gained his captaincy, met his wife and sailed Europe, the Americas, Pacific and Asia, with some of the richest people in the world.

After years of living a stressful high-octane life at sea, John came ashore in the UK to put down roots. John went into coaching and motivational speaking but realised his passion working with a renown genius in the field of Autism and trauma (PSTD and Abuse) who developed a groundbreaking therapy called Emergent Knowledge which is very much client centred. This work focused more on the unconscious information of the client and supports them to emerge their own resolution of problems, using metaphor therapy. John even gets to regularly co-facilitate coaching with horses and does sessions where the client doesn’t speak.

After 6 years of this work the sea called again and he and his wife spent a couple of years in Thailand, before entering Myanmar as it exited dictatorship to train locals in the hospitality industry. This was an amazing experience for a country where one day they’d dare not speak in public to accepting tourists. The country and its people blossomed, the changes and development were tangible, that is until John began writing his book. The Tatmadaw (Army) decided they’d had enough democracy and clamped down. The millennials of Myanmar had different ideas and today, lovely young people that were trained in hospitality along with their parents are learning how to load AK47’s and perform medical operations in the jungle. The world has gone through huge changes in recent years and people are reassessing their lives. John wants to help the World wake up and raise the its consciousness.

You can learn more about John and his work at the links below:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-farrell-emf, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8RSS26oXaQ, https://themegasymposium.com