Earon Davis

Current

• Consultant at Western Branch of the Documentary Films Academic Committee of the China TV Artists Association
• Adjunct Professor at Kaplan University
• Sustainability Advocate on Planet Earth at Divine Primates: Hope For Our Stressed-Out Species

• Blogger, Tweeter at Social Media Advocate
• Integrative Bodyworker, Integrative Medicine Program at NorthShore University HealthSystem
• Practitioner Network Coordinator and Faculty at Infinity Foundation
• Vice President, Board of Directors at Living Earth Television, NFP
• Owner at Earon Davis Massage
• Professional Member at American Massage Therapy Association
• Coordinator at Chicago Ishmael
• Manager, Divine Primates and Massage Therapy Groups at Group Owner on LinkedIn and Facebook

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Past

• Massage Therapist at Generations Yoga Center
• Certified Laugh Leader at World Laughter Tour
• Member at Off Campus Writers Workshop

• Member at World Future Society
• Board Member at Meditation for Inner Peace and Self Mastery
• networker at Network of Spiritual Progressives
• Massage Therapist at Pro Clinic at Chicago School of Massage Therapy - Cortiva Institute
• Healing Energy Bodyworker at Mystical Sciences Institute
• Bodyworker at North Shore Wellness Services
• Dad at Davis Family in Wilmette
• Environmental Health Law Consulting at Earon S. Davis Consulting (Self-employed)
• Publisher and Editor at Ecological Illness Law Report (Sole Proprietorship)
• Senior Author, Attorney at Migrant Legal Action Program
• Senior Legal Analyst, Project Manager at Fred C. Hart Associates
• Assistant to Chairman, Lawyer at State of Illinois - Pollution Control Board

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Education

• Chicago School of Massage Therapy
• University of California, Los Angeles
• Washington University in St. Louis School of Law

• University of Illinois at Chicago
• Von Steuben High School - Chicago Public Schools
• Omega Institute and other programs

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Recommended

25 people have recommended Earon

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Think Tanks

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog
• My Blog

Earon Davis’s Summary

Earon has a broad, varied background, from years as a writer and environmental health lawyer and consultant, to nonprofit management, integrative bodywork and holistic healing. He is completing a book that integrates much of what he's learned in his life and career. "Divine Primates: Hope for Our Stressed-Out Species" presents a unique view of human nature that gives new hope as we attempt to change our collective awareness in ways that foster sustainability. Divine Primates helps us re-define our "Systems Thinking" so that we can re-direct some of our culture's diffuse energies towards sustainability and peace.

Earon's current professional goals include developing his practice at the Integrative Medicine Program at North Shore University Healthcare, teaching, getting his book published, and finding an academic, think tank, retreat center or other leadership position that combines his talents and interests.

His networking value at this time is varied and Earon is open to change. He can provide professional services to linked-in members (and their organizations) interested in exploring systems thinking, bodywork and energy work and/or interspirituality as a modality of spiritual and traditional healing and transformation - as a way to understand and access the inner voice and strength. He could also be involved with projects in which massage and spirituality are used for clients/employees as a stress-reduction, health education, teambuilding experience.

With a menu that includes expanded systems thinking, bodywork, energywork and breathwork, Earon helps people find their "reset button" so they can envision better futures. His premise is that it isn't chiefly our logical minds that hold us back - but rather our unconscious minds - which can often be opened through creativity, touch, body awareness, relaxation, breath work and imagination.

Earon Davis’s Specialties:

Earon performs individual and group healing work, teaching and strategic/systems analysis, based upon his education (B.A. in Sociology, Master's degree in Public Health and a Law degree), in-depth study of spirituality and wisdom traditions, experience in nonprofit management, environmental advocacy, teaching, holistic healing and a wide range of publications. He is a licensed massage therapist, journalist and futurist. The recommendations below provide a glimpse of Earon's effectiveness.

Earon Davis’s Experience

• Consultant

  Western Branch of the Documentary Films Academic Committee of the China TV Artists Association

  (Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  September 2008 — Present (11 months)

• Adjunct Professor

  Kaplan University

  (Public Company; WPO; Education Management industry)

  March 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

  Earon is an Adjunct Professor, teaching health sciences courses for Kaplan University's online B. S. Degree program, including Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
  
  
  Integrative Medicine, Alternative Medicine, Health and Wellness, Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM),

• Sustainability Advocate on Planet Earth

  Divine Primates: Hope For Our Stressed-Out Species

  (Writing and Editing industry)

  March 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

  Earon seeks a publisher for his non-fiction book project on human sustainability. He shows how the human race got into our sustainability crises and presents a plan for sustainable living. Understanding the sources of the problem gives us a better chance to take effective action. "Divine Primates" offers new hope and help for a more humane culture that plays to our highest instincts rather than our lowest.
  
  Recommendations are welcome! Endorsements of Earon's work on sustainability include:
  
  -------Dr. Ashok Khosla, Chair, Development Alternatives Group and former Director of the United Nations Environment Programme. Dr. Khosla was a Harvard professor who created one of the courses that helped inspired Al Gore.
  
  -------Bud Ward, Environmental Writer, Consultant and Journalist, former editor of The Environmental Law Forum, Environmental Law Institute.
  
  
  Earon S. Davis, J.D., M.P.H., L.C.M.T.
  Global environmental sustainability author, pragmatist

• Blogger, Tweeter

  Social Media Advocate

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  2007 — Present (2 years)

  http://twitter.com/DivinePrimates
  http://www.divineprimates.blogspot.com
  http://divineprimate.gaia.com/blog
  http://earon.newsvine.com

• Integrative Bodyworker, Integrative Medicine Program

  NorthShore University HealthSystem

  (Non-Profit; 5001-10,000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  October 2006 — Present (2 years 10 months)

  Earon is an independent contractor at NorthShore University HealthSystem's Integrative Medicine Department, seeing patients/clients at the Park Center in Glenview, IL as part of its integrative medicine team. His work as an integrative bodyworker includes clinical healing and massage, relaxation and stress reduction, energy work, and other holistic services. The team includes a physician, Oriental Medicine practitioners, bodyworkers, exercise physiologist, psychotherapist, herbalist, etc. http://www.enh.org/integrative (massage therapist, reiki master)

• Practitioner Network Coordinator and Faculty

  Infinity Foundation

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

  June 2006 — Present (3 years 2 months)

  Earon is a part-time volunteer coordinating the Infinity Foundation's Practitioner Network Association, including membership coordinator and leading networking events and public programs provided by the network. He teaches a monthly "energy exchange circle" to introduce the public to energy work and related stress reduction techniques. Reiki Master, Massage Therapist, Bodyworker, Kabbalistic Healing, Shamanic Healing.

• Vice President, Board of Directors

  Living Earth Television, NFP

  (Broadcast Media industry)

  May 2004 — Present (5 years 3 months)

  Living Earth Television (www.letv.org) is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit educational organization with tax exempt status from the IRS. We are developing programming for US and international broadcast that helps people to understand people from other cultures across the planet. These documentary films are made locally by people within their own cultures, and edited, translated and subtitled in a culturally sensitive manner.
  
  Our first series will be from China, representing different regions and topics. The focus is on daily living rather than the typical focus on conflict or the "bizarre" and unusual. Our aim is to help viewers see how similar humans beings are around the world. Focal points involve culture, family life, environment, peacemaking and finding local solutions. If you can help, please contact Earon at earondavis@aol.com, or Martha Foster at MarthaF@letv.org.
  
  International Documentary, International Television, Global Public Television, Documentary, Qinghai

• Owner

  Earon Davis Massage

  (Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

  September 2002 — Present (6 years 11 months)

  Earon has a healing massage practice, focusing on healing, releasing pain, transformation and reconnection. His massage work combines aspects of myofascial, swedish, deep tissue and energy work. He is also a Reiki Master and has training in core shamanic practice and kabbalistic healing. Earon has studied myofascial pain as well as didgeridoo and mystical healing because he understands that healing is a complex matter and that healing is most likely when the body, mind, spirit and emotions are all respected and integrated to the extent desired by the client.
  
  Massage therapist, bodyworker, energy worker. http://www.earondavis.com

• Professional Member

  American Massage Therapy Association

  (Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  2002 — Present (7 years)

  Professional massage therapist licensed in the State of Illinois. Reiki Master, massage therapy, integrative bodywork, specializing in myofascial trigger point therapy and energy work.

• Coordinator

  Chicago Ishmael

  (Non-Profit; Myself Only; Internet industry)

  1997 — Present (12 years)

  Earon has served as volunteer coordinator/referral point for Chicago area readers of Ishmael and other books by Daniel Quinn. Chicago Ishmael is housed as a Yahoo Group.
  
  Daniel Quinn is one of the prime inspirations for Divine Primates, along with Desmond Morris, Jane Goodall, Thom Hartmann, Riane Eisler, Wayne Teasdale, Joan Forest Mage and Frans de Waal. Also, H.L. Mencken and Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain).
  
  Ishmael, My Ishmael, Daniel Quinn

• Manager, Divine Primates and Massage Therapy Groups

  Group Owner on LinkedIn and Facebook

  (Internet industry)

  1902 — Present (107 years)

  Earon is owner and moderator for the LinkedIn "Divine Primates" group. This is an open group. To join, follow this LinkedIn link: http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/113787/68FBD16FCE3F
  
  He also owns and moderates the LinkedIn "Massage Therapists and Bodyworkers" group, which is ONLY for current and former Massage Therapists and Bodyworkers -- at the following link: http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/108944/30A9DF5A0F4F
  
  Earon also moderates LinkedIn groups for "Living Earth Television" and the Infinity Foundation.
  
  And he created, and helps manage, the LinkedIn group for the Gaia Community - http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=663377 and others.
  
  Earon's facebook screen name is www.facebook.com/earon
  
  Moderator, LinkedIn LION, Networker, Documentary, Author, Sustainability, Ode Magazine

• Massage Therapist

  Generations Yoga Center

  (Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

  September 2008 — January 2009 (5 months)

  Healing Bodywork at Generations Yoga Center in Wilmette, complementing and supporting body, mind, spirit and emotions, helping pain and tightness yield to joy, flexibility and inner peace! http://www.genyoga.com

• Certified Laugh Leader

  World Laughter Tour

  (Alternative Medicine industry)

  July 1901 — 2009 (108 years)

  Earon leads "World Laughter Tour" laughter club workshops independently and as part of his services for Evanston (Northwestern) Healthcare's Integrative Medicine Program. These workshops involve 30 minute or 60 minute presentations on the benefits and experience of laughter, utilizing laughter exercises designed to provide relaxation and a sense of safe community. This is not a "joke" club, but rather focuses on the experience of practiced laughter. It is an amazing experience and a wonderful stand-alone stress reduction activity or a break during an existing workshop, conference or health fair.
  
  Laughter, Healing, Laughter is the Best Medicine!

• Member

  Off Campus Writers Workshop

  (Educational Institution; 1-10 employees; Writing and Editing industry)

  June 1932 — 2008 (76 years)

  Off Campus Writers Workshop (OCWW) is a large and established network of writers in the Chicago area, meeting in Winnetka.

• Member

  World Future Society

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Public Policy industry)

  February 1901 — 2008 (107 years)

  The World Future Society (www.wfs.org) is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to the study of the Future. Earon presented at the 2007 annual convention and will also be on a program at WorldFuture2008 along with his three brothers, Brian Davis, Geary Davis and Wayne Davis talking about "The Front Lines of Sustainability"
  
  Future, Futurist, Futurism, Sustainability, Sustainable, Environment, Environmental, Environmentalist

• Board Member

  Meditation for Inner Peace and Self Mastery

  (Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

  March 2007 — 2008 (1 year)

  MIPSM is a nonprofit organization formed after the dissolution of the Himalayan Institute Midwest, of which Earon had also served on the Board of Directors. Founded by Pandit Jerome Smith, MIPSM was created to further the himalayan meditation, yoga and wellness traditions, open to people regardless of religious belief or preference. http://www.mipsm.com.
  
  The national headquarters for the Himalayan Institute remains in Honesdale, Pennsylvania - www.HimalayanInstitute.com. The Himalayan Institute remains a vital international organization for spiritual teaching and service work.

• networker

  Network of Spiritual Progressives

  (Writing and Editing industry)

  2006 — 2008 (2 years)

  This organization was founded by Rabbi Michael Lerner, publisher of Tikkun Magazine. Earon remains connected as a networker in the Chicago area.
  
  Ode Magazine and Tikkun are Earon's top favorites. Ode Magazine - for intelligent optimists.

• Massage Therapist at Pro Clinic

  Chicago School of Massage Therapy - Cortiva Institute

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Education Management industry)

  November 2005 — 2007 (2 years)

  I formerly served as a part-time Massage Therapist at the Professional Clinic of the Chicago School of Massage Therapy. Massage Therapist, Massage therapy, bodywork, healing massage.

• Healing Energy Bodyworker

  Mystical Sciences Institute

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Individual & Family Services industry)

  February 2006 — 2007 (1 year)

  Earon had a part time practice as an independent practitioner at the Mystical Sciences Institute in Evanston, IL. He performed Healing Energy Massage and other modalities. IEaron highly recommend Mystical Sciences Institute, directed by Billie Topa Tate, a talented spiritual teacher (Mescalero Apache) and gifted holistic educator.
  
  Spiritual, Spirituality, Bodywork, Healing, Native American Traditional Healing, Mystical Sciences Institute.

• Bodyworker

  North Shore Wellness Services

  (Mental Health Care industry)

  2005 — 2006 (1 year)

  Mental Health Practice

• Dad

  Davis Family in Wilmette

  (Partnership; Human Resources industry)

  1985 — 1999 (14 years)

  Located in Wilmette, IL, this organization devoted to loving and raising three children, who have since respectively graduated from Beloit College, Northwestern University and the University of Michigan.

• Environmental Health Law Consulting

  Earon S. Davis Consulting (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  1980 — 1995 (15 years)

  Consultant to individuals dealing with environmental health problems, including multiple chemical sensitivites, and non-profit organizations. Publisher of the Ecological Illness Law Report. Writer and advocate, with several dozen articles published on legal, health, disability rights, toxic chemicals and other topics. Lawyer. Executive Director for non-profits in alternative health care. For example, for part of this time I served as Executive Director and Counsel for the American Academy of Environmental Medicine.

• Publisher and Editor

  Ecological Illness Law Report (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)

  November 1982 — June 1988 (5 years 8 months)

  I edited and published the Ecological Illness Law Report, an acclaimed newsletter providing information and analysis related to cases in which toxic chemicals were believed to have caused a wide range of health issues. Special focus was on chemical sensitivity disorders in which individuals suffered medically unexplained symptoms affecting multiple systems and resulting if various extents of disability. Legal areas covered included personal injury, workers compensation, disability rights and accomodations, administrative law and Insurance law.

• Senior Author, Attorney

  Migrant Legal Action Program

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Legal Services industry)

  1979 — October 1981 (2 years)

  I served as an Attorney and Project Manager for the toxic chemical manual project funded by a grant from the US EPA. The project was terminated early due to change in administrations, but a book was published in 1982, entitled, "Toxic Chemicals: Interface Between Law and Science, by Earon S. Davis and Valerie A. Wilk.

• Senior Legal Analyst, Project Manager

  Fred C. Hart Associates

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  1978 — 1979 (1 year)

• Assistant to Chairman, Lawyer

  State of Illinois - Pollution Control Board

  (Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Government Administration industry)

  1975 — 1977 (2 years)

  I served as Assistant to the Chairman of the Illinois Pollution Control Board. The full-time Board is appointed by the Governor of Illinois, with responsibility over regulatory proceedings and cases brought for violations and variances, etc. My own duties included serving as a hearing officer for regulatory proceedings, law clerk for analysis and drafting of cases and opinions, Legal Advisor and confidential assistant to the Chairman.

Earon Davis’s Education

• Chicago School of Massage Therapy

  Massage Certification , Massage and Bodywork , 2002 — 2003

• University of California, Los Angeles

  M.P.H. , Masters of Public Health , 1977 — 1978

  Activities and Societies:

  US Public Health Service Traineeship

• Washington University in St. Louis School of Law

  J.D. , Law , 1972 — 1975

  Activities and Societies:

  Law School Scholarship, moot court, Civil Law Clinic (environmental) - drafted testimony for Barry Commoner and helped represent the Utility Consumers Council of Missouri in an intervention regarding construction of a power plant.

• University of Illinois at Chicago

  B.A. , Sociology (and writing) , 1968 — 1972

  Discussions Committee

  Activities and Societies:

  Graduated with Honors.

• Von Steuben High School - Chicago Public Schools

  High School , High School , 1964 — 1968

  Activities and Societies:

  Band and Orchestra, Chicago All-City High School Band, etc.

• Omega Institute and other programs

  Classes , Spirituality, Healing and Wisdom , 1999

  Activities and Societies:

  Spiritual, Healing and Wisdom studies included: Ram Dass at Omega Institute; The Dalai Lama (Tibetan Buddhism) in Madison, Wisconsin; Joan Forest Mage (Shamanic Training) in Chicago; Rabbi Dr. Doug Goldhamer in Skokie, IL; Billie Topa Tate (Mescalero Apache) in Evanston, IL; Pandit Jerome Smith (Himalayan Tradition) in Glenview, IL; and Brother Wayne Teasdale (Interspirituality) in Chicago, IL.

Additional Information

Earon Davis’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog
• My Blog

Earon Davis’s Interests:

I'm an open networker [LION], seeking to connect with environmentalists, writers/journalists, authors, public intellectuals, social scientists, advocates, media and documentary, legal, public health and healthcare professionals, globally. I seek to better understand this complex world through heart-centered intellectual inquiry. Interests include: Writing, meditation, consciousness, environmental health, genealogy, spirituality, interspirituality, traditional healing, energy work, breath work, law, policy analysis, mysticism, evolutionary thinking, sustainability, systems thinking, intercultural communications, didgeridoo, photography, vegetarian, vegan, buddhism, kabbalistic healing, animal rights, shamanism, linguistics, ethnomusicology, anthropology, music and chanting, and my three sons. I have published many articles and two book chapters on environmental/legal/health issues and book on Toxic Chemicals in 1982. Testified before Congress on Indoor Pollution.

Earon Davis’s Honors:

- "Expression of Appreciation," District of Columbia Lung Association, 1982 - presented by the Board of Directors of DCLA for efforts in organizing the nation's first major consumer education conference in the US on indoor air pollution.

--"Carlton Lee Award" (1988 - For Career Accomplishments) and the Presidential award, from the American Academy of Environmental Medicine;

--"Crane Gargoyle Award" from the Council on Disability Rights, 1992 for precedent setting legal advocacy for a child who is susceptible to pesticides.

--"Recognition of Excellence Award", National Center for Environmental Health Strategies, 1991, for career accomplishments in Environmental Health.

--"Excellence in Teaching" Award, Kaplan University School of Health Sciences, 2008.

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