Chuck Spezzano

Biographical Details
"Profoundly disappointed in his doctoral studies, he decided that if he was to get an education, he would need to give it to himself. As a result, he threw  himself into his doctoral dissertation, which was looking for a new model of healing based on vision and creativity, rather then just repair.  He felt he really gained the experience necessary to make his innovative techniques, methods and models when he began to work at the Naval Drug Rehabilitation Center as a psychologist.

"While supervised by psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers, Chuck began to study short term psychotherapies. He developed different techniques and methods to discover accelerated forms of healing, which could deal with the ever growing caseload, and the diminishing time in which to help.

"It was during this time that he began discovering deep healing principles in the mind that were not written about in psychological literature. This is when Chuck also attended his first program seminar call Lifespring.  Having conducted hundreds of therapy groups and individual sessions at the Rehab Center, Chuck began designing seminars that included the process principle of therapeutic group works with the power of therapeutic exercises of seminars.  Chuck also became part of a team at the Rehab Center teaching military personnel to become paraprofessional counselors in an effort to combat drug abuse and to help drug abusers.  It was during this time that he graduated with his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology.

"In fall 1979 he left his job with the Navy and began private practice as a Marriage, Family and Child Counselor, while volunteering time as a trainer with ARAS, a workshop company with spiritual dimensions. It was also during this time that he worked more fully on his research with “the triangle model,” the psycho-spiritual steps of evolution we go through as an individuals, relationships, companies or countries.  In 1982 Chuck opened his office in Orange County after moving to Laguna Beach, California. In 1982 and 1983 he also taught at the Tubb Wholestic Health Institute in Southern California, before moving to Hawaii.

"While working with the Navy, one of his colleagues told him about A Course in Miracles. As Chuck began to read the Course’s workbook and text, he found most of the healing principles he thought he had personally discovered written about in A Course in Miracles.  He then found many more principles there that he had not discovered, that he could corroborate and use in his healing work.  To this day, A Course in Miracles remains a source point of inspiration and guidance.

"In 1980 Chuck travelled to Vancouver, Canada for his first lecture. He began doing psychic development workshops up the west coast but by 1982 seeing the need he switched to only conducting healing workshops.  He travelled frequently also to New England and then to Minnesota.  In 1983 he was invited to Japan, the U. K. and Germany for the first time.  By 1987 he was travelling regularly to Switzerland, the U. K., Japan, Canada and France.

"In 1990 Chuck and Lency began travel to Taiwan for the first time, and in 1991 to Malaysia. In 1991 he and Lency met with Edna Brillon, a First Nations woman, and found they had the same vision about supporting First Nations Peoples.  Chuck and Lency donate one or more workshops to First Nations Communities each year.  The First Nations fund became the first charity for Psychology of Vision.

"It was also at this time, 1991, that the Psychology of Vision model was given its name by Chuck. And while their work has gone beyond human and shamanic vision into spiritual vision and higher consciousness, the name Psychology of Vision, or POV, holds a dear place in their hearts.

"In 1997, Chuck and Lency felt the call to begin training trainers in their model. There are now between 70 – 80 Psychology of Vision Trainers around the world in Canada, the U. S., U. K., Germany, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan and Malaysia.  In 2004 they began doing workshops in China.

"Chuck has written 28 books published in twenty Countries. Published books include his best selling book If It Hurts, It Isn’t Love.  Princess Diana said it was the book that got her out of her heartbreaks with Charles."

"The Spezzanos’ greatest inspirations come from A Course in Miracles and Oneness University. As time draws closer to 2012, their travel has increased from 50% to 75% of their time in an effort to help the planet move from competitive, dissociative independence into partnership and interdependence."


 * Founding Director, America-China Bridge