Three presentations.
Two days.
One framework that reaches the whole community.
A school assembly. An agricultural sector safety session. A community kickoff for town employees. Built around the Learn Heal Grow framework, delivered by a Safety and Resilience Expert who has earned the room.
Lock the DatesOne budget could not bring this kind of program to Barrhead. Together, it can.
The Town of Barrhead is planning a summer kickoff event. The local high school wants something that lands with students. The agricultural association needs a safety message that goes beyond rules. The co-op invests in the community, and local health and medical services know that resilient workforces show up healthier downstream.
What started as one event for town employees became a community-wide engagement reaching three different audiences in two days, with one shared framework and a partnership rate that reflects the package we built together.
This page is the single shareable summary for everyone who is part of the conversation.
Same framework. Three rooms. Three applications.
Each session runs 45 to 60 minutes, built around the same underlying framework but delivered for the specific audience in the room.
Resilience & Road Safety
A presentation for high school students. John shares his own story of surviving the 1994 car crash that killed three of his closest friends and left him with burns over 75% of his body. From that lived experience, students explore the belief that drives most preventable crashes and the resilience that lets them choose a different path.
Safety for the Farming Sector
A safety session for producers, operators, and ag workers who have heard every safety talk before. Goes underneath the rules and exposes the beliefs that drive complacency on the farm and on the operation. Practical. Direct. Built for the people who already know what they are doing.
Safety, Resilience & Personal Growth
A session for the Town of Barrhead's roughly 70 employees. The framework applied to the people who keep the community running. Real tools for the real pressure of public service work, navigating change together, and showing up for each other through whatever the season ahead brings.
A single talk lands in one room. Three talks across two days build shared language across a whole community.
The students hear it. Their parents working in agriculture hear it. The town staff who serve them all hear it. When the same framework lands across three audiences in the same week, people start using the same vocabulary. Workplaces talk about beliefs. Families talk about beliefs. The community starts to operate with a shared lens.
Learn Heal Grow.
Most programs teach on top of beliefs that have never been examined. That is why the training does not stick. The belief underneath keeps producing the old pattern.
Learn Heal Grow addresses what most programs miss.
Awareness first. You cannot change what you cannot see. Most of what drives us is invisible to us. Learning means getting honest about what is actually running the show.
You cannot outrun what you have not faced. Awareness alone does not change deep patterns. The wound has to be addressed so it stops controlling what happens next.
Practice, repetition, new responses, until a new automatic replaces the old one. Growth is the training of who you want to be until that becomes who you are.
Built in the fire. Tested in the living.
John Westhaver is a Safety and Resilience Expert based in Victoria, BC.
In 1994, a car crash killed three of his closest friends and left John with burns over 75% of his body. He was eighteen years old. What he learned in the years that followed became the foundation of the Learn Heal Grow framework, the same work he is still using on himself today while continuing to build this business and navigate his wife Brianna's stage four cancer.
For the last twenty-three years, John has delivered 850-plus presentations across Canada and the United States. He is Mi'kmaq from Sipekne'katik First Nation, a board member of the Firefighters' Burn Fund Victoria, and a speaker whose work has been trusted by provincial insurance bodies, major energy companies, fire chief associations, and education ministries.
He is not a retrospective story. He is the demonstration.
- ICBC, since 2002
- Manitoba Public Insurance
- Saskatchewan Government Insurance
- Veren Inc. (formerly Crescent Point Energy)
- Encana Corp.
- Permian Road Safety Coalition
- Alberta Fire Chiefs Association
- Department of Education, New Brunswick
- Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (2012)
- Courage To Come Back Award, Coast Mental Health Foundation (2017)
- Firefighters' Burn Fund Victoria, sponsored partnership since 2001, board member and peer support director since 2010
Built to be split. Built to land.
- Three live presentations on June 5 & 6, 2026
- Audience-specific adjustments for each presentation
- Q&A with each group as time allows
- One follow-up summary email per host organization with framework recap
- Flight from Victoria, BC
- Ground transportation
- Lodging for two nights
- Detailed estimate provided once venues are confirmed
- Venues and AV for each presentation
- A primary contact for day-of logistics
- Social media images from each event
- Social media posts on host channels with tagging
The package is built to be split across whoever joins.
The Town of Barrhead is the lead organizer. The $5,000 community partnership rate is designed to divide across the contributors who come together for this. The more partners, the lower each contribution.
Three presentations. Two days. One community.
If you are the Town of Barrhead, the school, the agricultural association, the co-op, or one of the health and medical contributors, the next step is the same: tell Jodie Lyons you are in. She is leading the package and coordinating the contributors. From a verbal yes by Friday, the dates lock, and the planning moves forward by email.
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