Jon Turk
PhD
MT, USJon Turk received his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1971, wrote the first environmental science textbook in North America, and continued writing textbooks for 40 years. During those decades, he also engaged in extreme outdoor expeditions. Jon's circumnavigation of Ellesmere Island with Erik Boomer was nominated by National Geographic as one of the top ten adventures of 2011. Jon's lectures and four popular books, (Cold Oceans, In the Wake of the Jomon, The Raven's Gift, and Crocodiles and Ice), chronicle the value of wild places to the individual and to society. Starting from this foundation, he has spoken to various audiences on a wide range of topics from safety in heavy industry to Deep Ecology, to mindfulness. Awareness and action -- performance and ecstasy all originate from the same source. www.jonturk.net
Jon Turk received his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1971, wrote the first environmental science textbook in North America, and continued writing textbooks for 40 years. During those decades, he also engaged in extreme outdoor expeditions. Jon's circumnavigation of Ellesmere Island with Erik Boomer was nominated by National Geographic as one of the top ten adventures of 2011. Jon's lectures and four popular books, (Cold Oceans, In the Wake of the Jomon, The Raven's Gift, and Crocodiles and Ice), chronicle the value of wild places to the individual and to society. Starting from this foundation, he has spoken to various audiences on a wide range of topics from safety in heavy industry to Deep Ecology, to mindfulness. Awareness and action -- performance and ecstasy all originate from the same source. www.jonturk.net
Crocodiles and Ice: A Journey into Deep Wild
I invite my readers to listen to our ancient ancestors, the poets of the '60s, a wolf that lingers, a...
The Tundra, The Hunter, and The Shaman A Three-Step Path to Mindfulness
My friends in Siberia have taught me a three-step path into mindfulness. First, embrace the Tundra, Nature and allow its spring glory and winter cold to sweep extraneous and useless thoughts from your think-too-much-know-it-all brain. Then engage your body, The Hunter in some physicality that expresses pure, focused, action and awareness, FLOW. The third step then follows automatically, uninterrupted, because The Shaman, in real or metaphysical form, WONDER and PASSION,...
High Performance and Ecstasy Through FLOW
For twenty years I've practiced performance FLOW. I've written and spoken about it repeatedly -- without knowing that there was a term for it, and a community of FLOW practitioners and teachers. And then, BAM; recently, the community has found me, and I have found them. In short, FLOW is about losing a sense of SELF and becoming a bundle of pure AWARENESS. Whew. What could be more beautiful and wondrous than that? A state where barriers disappear and...
TATC: Total Awareness – Total Concentration
How do we act, in the corporate boardroom or on the oily, noisy deck of a drill rig when, "The Going Gets Tough?"
How do we function efficiently and safely when, "Failure is not an Option."
Join National Geographic award winning global adventurer, Jon Turk in exploring Total Awareness - Total Concentration. This is the path that has led Jon Turk to success -- and kept him alive -- during forty years of remote expeditions in dangerous and chaotic environments. It is the...
The Dance of the Tides
The Koryak people of Siberia recognize that we are surrounded by many teachers: the shaman, the hunter, and the tundra itself. In Dance of the Tides, we honor this full and balanced circle of learning. Our journey together embraces mindfulness through a deep reciprocal communication with nature, combined with joyous body movement. We explore transcendence by dancing to nature's rhythms - into the ecstasy of FLOW.
Together we build...
