About Nik

Nik is a change/insight facilitator offering workshops, coaching and consulting focusing on meaning, curiosity, creativity, disruption, addiction and resilience. He is also a composer/musician and a writer of essays, prose and poetry.

Nik has formal educations in Theology (U of T), Professional Coaching (Adler), Team Coaching Supervision (Velleman/Gestalt), Spiritual Care (CAPPE), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, and is a Certified Change Agent (CCA) with experience in organisational development. He is the director of the Curiosity Culture Project, and is a core member of the Toronto, Berlin & Australasian Change Days festival/conferences.

Nik studied Theology at the University of Toronto with a focus on consciousness, addiction, ecology and love, was a Spiritual Care resident on the ICU, Emergency and Neuro Wards at the Toronto Western hospital, worked in Palliative Care, and was a live-in staff person in homes for the homeless and for people with mental health challenges.

As a performance artist Nik has written and performed works of ‘sonic theatre’, music for contemporary dance and art installations, and recorded and performed in the genres of folk, alt-rock, punk-funk, ‘sub-jazz-world’, ambient/electro-acoustic and sound art.

Nik posts a wide range of poems, prose, ‘pensees’ and essays on his blog ‘Sheddings’, and elsewhere.

Other escapades have included hitchhiking 70,000 miles, planting over a million trees , facilitating Buddhist addiction sessions, living in community with Christian monks and gay Catholic anarchists, being imprisoned for civil disobedience, being sole caretaker of a remote Orca observatory for 8 months, and rowing a dory solo down the west coast of Canada.

Nik is also the very blessed Dad of two marvelous sons!

Nik is a skilled and empathetic facilitator, known for creating safe spaces – with an abundance of curiosity, open-heartedness and good humour – to explore big questions.