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03/07/2025

WELLBEING // Authentic Relationships - Have you ever thought about the components of authentic relationships? What extra qualities would you add to this list?

✅ Genuine
✅ Show Vulnerability
✅ Actively Listen
✅ Communicate Openly
✅ Mutual Respect
✅ Empathy
✅ Honesty
✅ Transparency

If you would like to learn more, reach out to me directly via [email protected]

22/05/2025

LATEST BIO // Just thought we would share the latest one page bio of John McCann and we welcome your feedback! Would love to hear from fellow who are on Facebook and would like to chat...

05/12/2023

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE // Did you know that Genos International offers online learning of Emotional Intelligence (EI) through Genos Grow? It will transform your wellbeing and relationships! DM for details so we can show you around!

02/09/2023

POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY // John McCann attended the 8th International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA) Congress with around 1,500 delegates in Vancouver, Canada from 20 - 23 July 2023 and here are some photos of Ilona Boniwell, PhD, Christian van Nieuwerburgh, Dr Suzy Green and Robert Biswas-Diener. Their books and stories are nothing short of inspirational!

John's main learning – the longer he lives the more he realises he doesn't know!

27/10/2022

POST TRAUMATIC GROWTH // John Albert J. McCann had a feeling early on in 33 radiation sessions treating a recurring cancer (now healed) that he'd experience a collateral benefit over and above the physical.

That was an intuitive insight. 💡 He explored this feeling with his amazing coach Mary Beth O'Neill in Seattle and realised he was experiencing Post Traumatic Growth (PG).

To realise the benefits of PG requires REFLECTION. As Socrates once said "An unreflective life isn't worth living." The practical benefits are that his coaching and psycho therapeutic work is now even more powerful! 💯

He commissioned Sue Ellson to write a poem, shared here with permission. If you would like to discuss PG with John, please reach out...

Post Traumatic Growth Poem

By Sue Ellson

As the trauma builds
Beneath the surface
I wonder how
I can escape the furnace

The fire, the fury
The hurt, the worry
The fear, the mire
I feel so sorry

Intensity rising
Anxiety spiralling
Depression sickening
Stress increasing

But at some point
I make a decision
I act not react
I see with new vision

My heart calls me in
To dig a little deeper
I discover my own salvation
I become my own reaper

That finds a new harvest
Of strength and wisdom
That opens the door
To my new found freedom

For in the resistance
The trials and the suffering
My vulnerability awakens
Love everlasting

The kernel of joy
Is finally sprouting
Trauma the catalyst
For my new awakening

Painful and raw
Beyond all measure
But look what I’ve found
My hidden treasure

The will
The way
The license
To play

To smile
To seek
To live
To learn
So much more from here
For every new year

For now I give thanks
For the gratefulness I’ve gained
The battle was hard
But my belief is now ingrained

I can’t change the past
Or wish something else for me
But through post traumatic growth
I’ve found a way to truly be

22/08/2021

7th International Positive Psychology Association IPPA World Congress - Gallery Presentation - Mindful Leadership and Wellbeing Survey Research Summary by John McCann and Caroline Bailey - learn more about this research at https://orgpsych.com.au/research/mindful-leadership-and-wellbeing-survey and subscribe to be kept up to date or be involved in future research.

Essentially, managers practicing mindful leadership behaviours had a stronger association to employees well-being at work than mindful leadership behaviours practiced at home.

Thanks to Caroline Bailey, Michael Bunting, Audrey McGibbon and others...

09/07/2021

YOU ARE EXTRAORDINARY! // In all of John McCann's years of executive coaching, he has come to realise how extraordinary people are.

Some people do not understand:
✔ the benefits of coaching
✔ that we are all a work-in-progress
✔ the importance of finding the right mentor or coach
✔ how to be the best version of themselves

But if they do, they can achieve extraordinary results.

With the right coaching and mentoring, you can:
✔ achieve results
✔ overcome challenges and obstacles
✔ build on your strengths
✔ focus on priorities

The exciting news is that it will affect all aspects of your life. You can’t split the personal from the professional. You are both.

No matter what, remember, you are extraordinary!

Read more at https://orgpsych.com.au/blog/you-are-extraordinary/ and reach out directly to John if you would like to learn more about coaching!

By John McCann In all my years of executive coaching, I have come to realise how extraordinary people are. Embrace coaching, achieve results.

24/06/2021

RESEARCH FINDINGS // Summary findings from the Mindful Leadership and Wellbeing Survey kindly prepared by Caroline Bailey now available at https://orgpsych.com.au/research/mindful-leadership-and-wellbeing-survey/

✔ strong evidence linking mindful leadership behaviours to staff members’ perceptions of having both authentic work relationships and high levels of intellectual engagement and ‘flow’ at work

✔ a leader who conveys trust, provides a non-toxic working relationship and enables staff to feel part of a close supportive team were key factors in their staff members’ wellbeing at work

A poster presentation of this research will be featured in the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA), 7th World Congress in July 2021

Mindful Leadership and Wellbeing Survey OrgPsych is collaborated with WorkSmart and EEK & SENSE to conduct an exciting research project to build the science around the correlation between mindful leadership and wellbeing.