INTRODUCING GORD HOPE:

Gord Hope is an accomplished Psychotherapist, a specialist in organizational culture change and development, an inspirational motivationalist, a knowledgeable Consultant for Mental Health, vision impairment and living with a disability, and is a Facilitator for Restorative Practices conferences.

Gord Hope holds a PhD in Social Psychology and a Post-Doctoral diploma in Clinical Psychology; he volunteers with several organizations, coaches Softball, organizes sports tournaments and events, and is terminally in love with his three amazing daughters and his grand-daughter. All of these things Gord Hope does and has accomplished in spite of being totally blind.

Through a lifetime of challenges and victories Hope has learned, and now lives to teach and model that humans are created the most adaptable creatures of all, which makes each of us able to attain whatever we wish, no matter our impairments deficits and disablements. He also understands to the very core of his being that:

Capability and Adaptability are more important than disability;
The impossible is only the untried (motto of the W. Ross MacDonald School for the Blind);
As useful and wonderful as sight is, Vision is even more so.

To learn what Dr. Gord Hope is up to currently, visit the "'Tsup G?" page of this site. 

Hope lost his sight at the age of 21 months to Retinoblastoma - a rare childhood eye cancer (the same disease which blinded musician, Jeff Healey). He attended the Ontario School for the Blind, in Brantford, Ontario - now the W. Ross MacDonald School - for grades 1 through 12. He subsequently obtained his Honours BA and his MA from the University of Ottawa, and his PhD from Carleton University, before returning to U of O to engage in post-doctoral studies in "Experiential Psychotherapy", under his mentor, Dr. Alvin Mahrer. You are encouraged to visit Dr. Mahrer's website:

http://www.almahrer.com/

Besides carrying on a successful Psychotherapy practice, Hope has run a private business through which he has provided individual and organizational development services. He has also worked and volunteered for CNIB, the Canadian Council of the Blind, the Childrens Safety Village of Brant, the Special Schools Branch of the Ontario Ministry of Education, the United Way of Brant, Ichthys Theatre Productions, the Esteem Team of Motivate Canada, the Canadian Paralympic Committee, Strength-based Parenting Initiative, Accessible Media Inc. - dedicated to enriching the lives of all Canadians through opportunities to share in daily media activities - and other amazing organizations.

He currently operates G. Hope Enterprises, which carries the by-line and promise:

HOPE INSPIRES VISION SUSTAINS HOPE

Telephone - 519-732-5487
E-mail - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

To view, print or download Gord Hope's full Resume, and/or other documents of interest, click here

Many references to Gord Hope's Psychotherapy practice come through Theravive, and its page for Brantford: Counselling Brantford