Jacques Weisel, Writer, Mentor and Coach in a DEAF COMMUNITY
As a photographic artist, I choose a variety of subjects and topics for my collage art pieces. The art pieces range from beauty, historical, social impact, spiritual, mythological, landscapes (geographical), and soon. There is the rare occasion that I pick a topic involving a current person. I chose Jacques Weisel to do a piece on because of his dramatic experience of escaping the Holocaust. The Holocaust has been down played by individuals and has been down played by even groups of cultures. More important, Jacques has dedicated himself to not only bettering himself, but in bettering others through his writing, coaching, and speaking.
What is somewhat a paradox is where Mr. Weisel lives,
South Florida. To adequately describe it, it is a large used car lot. People are constantly selling their products to you like no other place. I have been approached some 67 times in various pyramid get rich schemes. In addition, I have met an enormous amount of coaches in
South Florida and most of them have no degrees, life experiences and learned their profession in one weekend. These coaches also use strong armed tactics to get people to buy their products. Such groups as Self Discovery, Tony Robbins, and Landmark Forum are all the same. They have no degrees in Psychology or the extensive life experiences to sufficiently impact people’s lives.
Coaches are only as good as the sum of their experiences. How can they be any good if they were trained over a weekend? If a coach has not been published and featured in the news, how well skilled are they? As a former Psychology graduate who met one of the most influential Psychologists of the century, Carl Rogers, listening is the most effective tool to impact someone’s life. Most coaches could not tell you what it means. Such listening techniques as Clarification, Rephrasing, Probing, etc. are done. Florida is a place where very few people actually listen. Many people in Florida approach me and ask me if I am still doing my paintings. There is so much BS here, very few bother to listen as they cannot distinguish what is real and what is not. It was only last week that I was approached for a Ponzi Scheme, another Rothstein. The only reason there are scams in South Florida is because there is a MARKET FOR IT because essentially very few people actually LISTEN. I have seen many people turn themselves off from Jacques Weisel because his major theme is to help others listen. Jacques has been published hundreds of times, has been featured in the news, and has experienced and survived the unthinkable which is why I created the collage JACQUES WEISEL, A PORTRAIT OF A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR. Pictured below is the collage piece, A picture of Weisel and Gagnon. Also below is a picture of former Mayor Scott Brook which Scott tributes his victory to the coaching of Jacques Weisel.
