Peter Maeck
Peter Maeck's father was a poetry lover so, when he died of Alzheimer's complications, Peter eulogized him not with a dry litany of the man's achievements but instead with a burst of high-spirited rhyming poetry. Peter then turned these couplets into a live Alzheimer's-themed presentation which he has now given at TEDx events and mental health conferences worldwide, and into a just-published book entitled "Remembrance of Things Present: Making Peace with Dementia."
"Rhyme makes an otherwise rote tribute into a song," says Peter. "It is a melody which lifts prosaic lyrics to new heights."
As a keynote speaker Peter uses poetry, prose, and his own photographs to demystify, detoxify, and "make peace" with diverse mental health issues such as dementia, depression, low self-esteem, and bereavement. Starting with his own personal experiences, Peter builds bridges to his audiences of empathy, sympathy, inspiration, and hope.
But these aren't just feel-good encounters. Nor are they teaching sessions per se. Peter is neither a personal empowerment guru nor a mental fitness coach. He is an illuminator whose words and images reveal paths through emotional thickets. He is a savvy, witty guide for caregivers, professional and familial alike. With burdens lightened and routes more clearly marked, Peter's audiences can more confidently negotiate the long and winding roads which still lie ahead.
Peter "sings" in rhyme for other groups as well. Over decades as a writer of sales and management training and motivational programs, as a corporate speechwriter, and as a business book ghostwriter, Peter has stirringly proclaimed companies' messages to the world. As a former actor and director, he commands audiences with dramatic flair. For your corporate audience Peter will proclaim in custom-written rhymes your mission statements, policy intitiatives, business projections, and product launch announcements more engagingly, compellingly, and memorably than flat prose readings ever could. Peter's poetry makes recognition of star salespeople, meritorious managers, and exemplary executives into rousing, rhyming "celebrity roasts." If you are a civic, charitable, church, artistic, women's, government, education, or athletic group, Peter will readily rhapsodize for you, too.
In a world out of joint, out of phase, out of time,
Peter Maeck brings the gift of both reason and rhyme.
More about Peter is at: www.petermaeck.com
Peter Maeck's father was a poetry lover so, when he died of Alzheimer's complications, Peter eulogized him not with a dry litany of the man's achievements but instead with a burst of high-spirited rhyming poetry. Peter then turned these couplets into a live Alzheimer's-themed presentation which he has now given at TEDx events and mental health conferences worldwide, and into a just-published book entitled "Remembrance of Things Present: Making Peace with Dementia."
"Rhyme makes an otherwise rote tribute into a song," says Peter. "It is a melody which lifts prosaic lyrics to new heights."
As a keynote speaker Peter uses poetry, prose, and his own photographs to demystify, detoxify, and "make peace" with diverse mental health issues such as dementia, depression, low self-esteem, and bereavement. Starting with his own personal experiences, Peter builds bridges to his audiences of empathy, sympathy, inspiration, and hope.
But these aren't just feel-good encounters. Nor are they teaching sessions per se. Peter is neither a personal empowerment guru nor a mental fitness coach. He is an illuminator whose words and images reveal paths through emotional thickets. He is a savvy, witty guide for caregivers, professional and familial alike. With burdens lightened and routes more clearly marked, Peter's audiences can more confidently negotiate the long and winding roads which still lie ahead.
Peter "sings" in rhyme for other groups as well. Over decades as a writer of sales and management training and motivational programs, as a corporate speechwriter, and as a business book ghostwriter, Peter has stirringly proclaimed companies' messages to the world. As a former actor and director, he commands audiences with dramatic flair. For your corporate audience Peter will proclaim in custom-written rhymes your mission statements, policy intitiatives, business projections, and product launch announcements more engagingly, compellingly, and memorably than flat prose readings ever could. Peter's poetry makes recognition of star salespeople, meritorious managers, and exemplary executives into rousing, rhyming "celebrity roasts." If you are a civic, charitable, church, artistic, women's, government, education, or athletic group, Peter will readily rhapsodize for you, too.
In a world out of joint, out of phase, out of time,
Peter Maeck brings the gift of both reason and rhyme.
More about Peter is at: www.petermaeck.com
Remembrance of Things Present: Making Peace with Dementia
Says Peter: "While my father had Alzheimer's he and I moved from a prose relationship...
Cradle and All: Making Peace with Grief
Peter Maeck treats personal and public separations such as through divorce, death, disillusion, and other disappearances, and proposes how, after grieving our lost parents, mentors, heroes, and lovers, we can recharge our own lives by aligning with the precepts of the art, societies, and families they created.
Peter starts as a happy kid:Childhood's a garden of earthly delights
Where birds always sing and nobody fights.
Everyone's...
A Finer Madness: Making Peace with Depression
Over 16 million people suffer from clinical depression in America and 350 million suffer worldwide. Depression is treatable but two-thirds of sufferers do not seek treatment due to fear, lack of awareness, or shame. Peter Maeck initially resisted treatment for his own depression but then accepted it with sympathetic counseling by friends and family members.
In his journey from light to darkness and back again, Peter discovered that depression is resolved not by battling it as...
Beautiful Dreamer: Making Peace with Hard Times
This is a two-character dramatic sketch co-created and co-performed by Peter Maeck and his son Gabriel, a clinical social worker. In it, Gabriel structures a therapy session in the way that Peter, when he is playwriting, designs a play. Gabe's unique "theatrical" approach casts his patient not as a hopeless victim, but as an intrepid, even heroic adventurer whose current trials do not reflect shame, guilt, or pathology, but instead show perfectly normal human reactions to abnormal...
Beautiful Dreamer: Making Peace – and Profit – with Your Team
Peter Maeck, with his thirty-five years of corporate training experience, and Gabriel Maeck, with 4,000 therapeutic interviews under his belt, can adapt the psychotherapeutic scenario of "Beautiful Dreamer" for business, education, civic, charitable, church, artistic, women's, government, and athletic groups - in short, for any teamwork/team building situation in any collaborative environment.
In customized enactments, key team members are cast not simply as generic operatives but...
A Rhyme to Make Your Meeting Shine
Want a twist to your convention?
Need to garner rapt attention
From attendees in the hall?
A rhyme or two will hold in thrall
All delegates and conferees.
A rhyming couplet's like a breeze
That freshens air gone stale with prose.
Rhyme perks the ears. It's like the rose
Whose scent inhaled bestirs the heart.
And spurs the mind its...
Remembrance of Things Glacial: My Grandfather and the Ecology of Memory
Peter's grandfather became known as "The Father of...
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