We get through life by creating defenses and using distractions, but when they become habits, they can become our prison.

Heart-based living is the antidote for whatever holds us spellbound. In a powerful way it releases insecurity, anxiety, and critical self-judgments. It allows us to rewire old neural habits of defensiveness and distraction. It unfolds the creative power inside us to overcome everything that is not from our authentic self.

The ultimate creative act is being who you really are. Living from the heart is the path of self-healing that overcomes defensiveness and distractibility. It opens you to a life of the deepest meaning and fulfillment. I am walking that path by celebrating the gifts of the authentic self. This is my heart's plan for my own deep fulfillment.

Would you like to uncover yours?

Mission
Promoting the healing power of the heart and living the gifts of the authentic self

Vision
We are part of a New Renaissance informed by recent scientific understanding of human persons and all of life as fundamentally interconnected at the deepest level. We contribute to this a way of working and living based on collaboration, transformational learning, and the peaceful resolution of differences.

Values
Harmony or Balance
Being in Accord (from the Latin "to the heart"); the interplay of opposites where each contributes to a greater whole.

Simplicity
The quality of being easy to understand, with a sense of beauty and clarity, a focus on what is most important.

Peace
A creative power, the union of wisdom and compassion, right relationship with all of life.

Frank Medlar is the CEO of Applied Creative Thinking. Frank is a stress and attention coach, conflict coach, and mediator. He also works as a LifeMap Coach for the Aspergers Association of New England.

Education
BA in Literature from the College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara
MA in English from Boston College

Graduate certificate in Information Design from Bentley University

MS Ed with a specialization in Training and Performance Improvement from Capella University. 

Trained mediator. Completed forty hours of mediation training in accordance with M.G.L. ch.233 s.23C with Mediation Works Incorporated, Boston, MA. Completed year-long immersion program in NVC Mediation.

Certifications

Licensed HeartMath® One-on-One Provider, also licensed in the Cut Thru® technique and the Stopping Emotional Eating program
Qualified Instructor for The Resilient Educator from the Institute of HeartMath
Certified in "I Opt” technology
Certified Strengths Advocate and Coach from the Gallup Organization.
Certified Instructor for Countdown: A Strategy Game for Project Teams from Paradigm Learning
Certified Instructor for Situational Leadership II from the Ken Blanchard Companies
Authorized Teacher for the Sounder Sleep System®
Certified de Bono trainer for Lateral Thinking and the Six Thinking Hats®