Reggie Marra
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Reggie Marra

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Reggie Marra is a poet, educator, Integral Master Coach™ and author. His most recent work of nonfiction is "Healing America's Narratives: The Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow" (October 2022). Visit https://healingamericasnarratives.com/ to learn more. "Enough with the...Talking Points: Doing More Good than Harm in Conversation" was released in June 2020. A copy of his fourth volume of poetry, "Killing America: Our United States of Ignorance, Fear, Bigotry, Violence and Greed" (September 1, 2018) was sent to each member of the U.S. Congress, the President and the Vice President. In 2019 he co-founded the Fully Human at Work initiative with Kent Frazier. https://fullyhumanatwork.com/ His 2016 publications are collaborative works: The July 2016 release of "Coaching and Healing: Transcending the Illness Narrative" was co-authored along with his Integral Coaching colleagues, Joel Kreisberg, Lois MacNaugton, Leslie Williams, John Stoddart, Julie Flaherty, Amy Phillips, Alex Douds, Karin Hempel, and the late Jill Lang Ward (1952-2016). Reggie's conversations on grief, coaching and healing with Robert Wright Jr and Christine Wright of stressfreenow.com have been transcribed and are now available as "Integral Coaching and Healing" and "Grief and Healing:" A former high school teacher, basketball coach, athletic director and college administrator, he embraces the arts, sports and conversation, among other disciplines, as having value in themselves and as vehicles for ongoing human development, cultural transformation and personal, organizational, local, national and global sanity. Reggie brings an integrally informed perspective to adult development, healing, sports, poetry-writing and narrative healing. In addition to his Integral Coaching® certification through Integral Coaching Canada, he is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation, a Certified Leadership Agility 360 Assessment Facilitator, a Teaching/Integrating Artist with the Connecticut State Office of the Arts, and a founding partner at ParadoxEdge. In addition to the 2013 edition of The Quality of Effort and the companion Quality of Effort Workbook, he is also the author of This Open Eye: Seeing What We Do--Poems 2003-2005, which Naomi Shihab Nye called a book of "stunning, graphic precision" whose "poems are tributes to the nearly-invisible wounded and the honest humanity so many of us yearn for now," and Who Lives Better Than We Do?, his first volume of poems, released in 2001. He has presented his poetry, Narrative Healing and adult development workshops in schools throughout the northeast, as well as for the National Association for Poetry Therapy, the Transformative Language Arts Network, Healing Newtown, the Universalist Society of New Haven, the National Wellness Conference and the National Speakers Association, among others. In his earlier life, Reggie returned to his alma mater, Sacred Heart High School in Yonkers, NY, where he taught in the English, Business and Religion departments, and coached boys basketball in the New York CHSAA from 1975 through 1988. An alumnus of St. John's University (B.S. 1976) and Iona College (M.A. 1990), both in New York, he published the first edition of The Quality of Effort in 1991. You can find out more about his work at http://reggiemarra.com.
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