Facilitating the healing
of mind, body, and soul.
From the shadow to the light
James’ book Wheeling to Healing…Broken Heart on a Bicycle: Understanding and Healing from Adverse Childhood Experiences takes readers to places where hurt originates and then into landscapes that offer larger views and inspire movement toward relief from trauma at a deep level. It educates people about the science of trauma, and encourages them to use a wide variety of methods that can open an individual and unique process of healing.
James uses his life and experiences to care, inspire and promote relief from the effects of traumatic memories. When healing is embraced, life becomes more joyful.
Life Change One Mile at a Time
A former actor and grade school teacher, now a parent education specialist, teacher trainer and public speaker, James Encinas uses his creative skills in experiential workshops to instruct participants about the impact of trauma on childhood development. The non-judgmental space he creates allows probationers to engage in healing their emotional damage, learn about prevention of future child abuse and domestic violence, and to educate teachers to work with students who live in unsafe environments. James wrote Wheeling to Healing...Broken Heart on a Bicycle: Understanding and Healing from Adverse Childhood Experiences, a book and curriculum. He is a Fellow from the first class of Aspen Institute's Teacher Leaders, a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network and an activist for healing.
James’s Story
“By gathering stories, as well as methods of delivering hope, James Encinas wrote one story for all about healing with empathy, clarity and grace.”
—Richard Rohr, O.F.M.,
author and founder of the
Center for Action and Contemplation
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Endorsements
“James Encinas’s healing journey had two wheels as he pedaled his bicycle from one story to the next across America. With each story we see how there are many pathways to recovery and that our capacity for resilience can overcome the darkest of life circumstances. Wheeling to Healing conveys a message of hope and the amazing potential of our instinct to heal.”
~ Linda Chamberlain, Ph.D., author, epidemiologist and founding director of the Alaska Family Violence Prevention Project
“The stories of life experiences that are told in Wheeling to Healing help us understand how Adverse Childhood Experiences are common but typically unrecognized, and decades later affect our well-being and social function, and transmute into biomedical disease. Though the links may be lost in time, and are protected by shame and secrecy, the rest of the story here is the role of remembrance and understanding and openness in terms of a person’s ultimate healing.”
~ Vincent J. Felitti, M.D., co-founder of the ACE Study
“I highly recommend Wheeling to Healing to leaders who have the courage and commitment to undertake a deeper understanding of self. This book illustrates how events from birth through adolescence and early adult life shape fundamental views of self-worth, confidence, plus willingness to be led and to lead, against the backdrop of healing.”
~ John Hamm, executive coach, strategy advisor, leadership trainer and author of Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership