John Nielsen

Director 

Communication Skills Training and Developement Center

John's Qualifications

Success Style Profile - Certified Trainer

see website at

www.communicaton-empowerment.com

Coachville Schools of Coaching - Charter Member
see their website at www.coachville.com

PREP (Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program) - Certified Trainer
see their website at www.prepinc.com

Prepare/Enrich - Certified Trainer
see their website at www.lifeinnovations.com

Couple Communication Program - Certified Trainer
see their website at www.Couplecommunication.com

Ordained Minister at Community of Grace Church
see their website at http://www.icgrace.org

Navy Alcohol and Drug Safety Action Program - Certified Trainer

John is a licensed mediator for the states of California and Texas

Business Builder and Team Manager
see John's business history

Life Experiences
From age 17 until 1986, John struggled with alcohol and drug addiction. From being a successful businessman with a wife and two children, he ended up divorced, bankrupt and depressed. In 1987 John rededicated his life to Jesus Christ and started on his own recovery journey. In 1989 he began leading programs to help others with relationship and/or addiction issues. John met Debbie at Community of Grace and they have been happily married since 1993.

John started the healing and recovery ministries at Community of Grace church in 1991. Personal and relationship healing have become such a central part of church life that the church goes by the nickname "Community of Grace". 

Business History
Former Marine John Nielsen has a history of successfully leading teams of people to achieve business and organizational goals.

Largest Regional Distributorship, Western United States
John started as a Safeguard Business Systems distributor in 1970, visiting Alameda County businesses and making presentations to CPA firms to sell manual and computerized accounting systems. As sales increased, he gathered and trained a 15-person sales force. By the time he sold the distributorship 14 years later, it had 11,000 loyal customers and was the number one Safeguard distributorship in the Western United States. 

Program Facilitator
Based on his proven people skills, the University of Arizona hired John and trained him to conduct drug and alcohol prevention programs for the US Navy and Marines. John conducted 40-hour alcohol and drug prevention workshops for military personnel on bases throughout the western United States.

Community-Based Recovery Programs
While working for the military drug prevention program, John also facilitated community recovery groups. This eventually became the Steps of Grace program at Community of Grace. Steps of Grace currently has 25 trained group facilitators leading small support groups for issues ranging from codependency, substance and sexual addictions, to groups for the spouses of addicts and grief recovery. Other recipients of the facilitator training (Advanced Team-Building) have gone on to start recovery groups and programs in their own organizations.

 As Associate Pastor at Community of Grace, John has counseled or coached over 2,000 people, as well as conducting numerous workshops in communication skills and group dynamics. He also trains and mentors other people and organizations in how to lead groups, coach, counsel, and teach the workshops.