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About Jon Lavin
Jon Lavin was bought up on an estate belonging to Agatha Christie in the South West of England where his father was the manager. He was free to roam around the grounds and by the river, and narrowly escaped drowning on several occasions. He showed an aptitude for things electronic at a very early age and was given old valve radios & TVs to ‘play’ with. After a very average education he was enrolled on an apprenticeship scheme with a local electronics manufacturer by his father, who didn’t want him “lounging around at home or wandering through the woods all day”, and obtained an HNC in electronic engineering. A restlessness then set in which led to him moving to Finland and during the following 7 years, he worked in a variety of jobs from research institutions to installing radio stations on ice breakers. His final post was as a translator in a technical physics department of a university in Northern Finland where the microelectronics for the first mobile phones were being developed. On his return to the UK in the early 80s, Jon went back into electronics for a while before leaving to qualify as a teacher in design and technology. He returned to industry but into training and development and this was where a life-long interest in psychology and behaviours surfaced as a career possibility. He began working with people who were struggling with behaviours and relationships in the workplace and soon discovered that a more thorough knowledge of psychology and behaviours was needed. To this end he trained in Transactional Analysis, NLP and finally, Core Process Psychotherapy with the Karuna Institute, Devon and Middlesex University, London. He founded his own business, The People Workshop, in 1997 and refined it from offering standard business skills workshops to customised, small group and individual inputs which focus on behaviours. Jon works in a wide range of public and private organisation including business schools in the UK and France; the underlying intention in all the work is integrity. This tends to act as a self-filter as only those organisations that are integrous or want to build an integrous business are interested. His hobbies include music, photography, walking, building projects and working towards greater self-sufficiency with his wife and sons.