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About

John Bickart Ph.D.

John Bickart, Ph.D.


John is all about heart thought - experiencing the fun - the deep joy - of finding relationship with this incredible world of ours. He is passionately grateful for the wonders of nature, including humankind. He considers just about everyone he meets as a friend.

 

John likes to work in the background and let good ideas speak for themselves. He believes that children, and sometimes adults, know what they want and that they empower themselves when they listen to their hearts.

 

In the 70s he taught in an excellent Waldorf school. In the 80s and 90s, he consulted on adult education in the corporate world to Fortune 500 companies. Since then, he has taught every age group from pre-school to adults including those in juvenile detention and in prison. He loves, and is socially connected to, every type of student from emotionally disturbed to gifted in public and private schools as well as the incarcerated individuals in governmental prisons. He has taught in Shanghai to Peewaukie - New York City to San Francisco.
 

Recent Books: 

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Recent articles published in the The Collaborative for Spirituality in Education Blog, Columbia University Teachers College, Holistic Education Review:

  • Honoring Aristotle

  • Awakened Science Experimentation

  • 20 Opportunities to Transform Yourself While Teaching

  • Grandma Ach

  • Learn to Return

  • Moving Toward and Away

  • Science and Spirituality

  • The Unseen

 

Recent Workshops: 

  • The Believing Brain (Columbia U.) - Changing ourselves starts with changing our beliefs.

  • Prepared for The Collaborative for Spirituality in Education, Teachers College of Columbia U. in NYC (Oct. 2022) 

  • The Believing Brain (IIRP) - Changing ourselves starts with changing our beliefs. - video prepared for The International Institute for Restorative Practices, IIRP World Conference 2023 (Jan. 2023)

  • Reawakening Your Love of Teaching - prepared for "AWAKENED SCHOOLS: The Spiritual Core in Whole Child Education", live conference, Teachers College of Columbia U. in NYC (Oct. 2022).

  • Educational Workshops from the book 20 Opportunities to Transform Yourself While Teaching

    • "Reclaiming Your Spirituality" was prepared for "Cultivating the Spiritual Core: An Interactive Learning Summit", Teachers College of Columbia U. in NYC (Nov. 2021).

    • "Recovering Your Childhood in Adulthood" was prepared for "Awakened Campus Summit", Teachers College of Columbia U. in NYC (April 2022).

    • "The Believing Brain" was prepared for "AWAKENED SCHOOLS: The Spiritual Core in Whole Child Education", live conference, Teachers College of Columbia U. in NYC (Oct. 2022).

    • Intuitive Education Workshop 

    • The Collaborative for Spirituality in Education, Teachers College of Columbia U. in NYC (Nov. 2019)

    • INSS (International Network for the Study of Spirituality), St. Johns U. in the UK (June 2021)

    • Holistic Teaching and Learning Center, Southern Oregon U. in Ashland, OR (Oct. 2021)

    • Cultivating the Spiritual Core: An Interactive Learning Summit, Teachers College of Columbia U. in NYC (Nov. 2021)

 

References

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Bickart, J. (2018). The next version of you: 12 stories that highlight the use of intuition to update your life.
Bickart, J. (2020a). Bickart’s Just-in-Time Fables (Vol. 1). Asheville, NC: Red Shirt Interactive Group.
Bickart, J. (2020b). Bickart’s Just-in-Time Fables (Vol. 2). Asheville, NC: Red Shirt Interactive Group.
Bickart, J. (2020c). Bickart’s Just-in-Time Fables (Vol. 3). Asheville, NC: Red Shirt Interactive Group.
Bickart, J. (2022). 20 Opportunities to Transform Yourself While Teaching. Asheville, NC: Red Shirt Interactive Group.

Bickart, J. (2025). Science Education and Spiritual Transformation. Asheville, NC: Red Shirt Interactive Group.

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