About Joe

Joe Noonan

An author, speaker, coach and guide, Joe leads seminars and retreats for corporate groups and for self awareness. He’s been a guest on National Geographic, Fox TV and Oprah.

Joe reflects back to people that this world is already a Heaven on Earth, and that the tools to find joy in the moment are around and within us.  That harmony is inevitable and that innately we all just love each other and sometimes we forget – he is here to help us remember this.

Joe is on the planet to have us all experience the beauty in nature, and bring the lessons that nature teaches back into our relationships; at work and at home. He facilitates a remembrance that life is harmonic, flowing, a dance, and that we truly are all ‘fingers of the same hand’.

He has us all resonate with that part of ourselves that knows we’re surrounded by love and joy……..and expand our capacity to see it such that we find more peace.

He is here to empower, love and assist; to lead the metamorphosis of the masculine into a cooperative, synergistic, gentle and kind way of being………. He is here to ignite the playful child in us, to help us see God in all things, including ourselves and each other.

Joe assists people in opening their connection to nature, Gaia, the ocean and dolphins in a way that is ongoing and permanent….

THE STORY OF JOE NOONAN

Joe grew up 7th of 8 kids on a farm in Southern Maine. He practically lived outdoors hunting, fishing and camping.

THE AWAKENING – As a teenager, amidst a family counseling session over the suicide of his brother, he realized we are the masters of our own destiny. As a result of this realization, he’s led a life of continuing adventure, exploring his own expansion and awakening.

SEARCH FOR MEANING –While in High School, Joe began a daily practice of meditation and hatha yoga that he continued for decades. Studying the writings of Carlos Castaneda, he deepened his connection to the natural world and started fasting.

RETREAT – When he was 21, while working as a carpenter, he moved to Northern Maine, bought 13 acres of land, built his own log cabin and lived in the woods for a year.

THE HEALER – After a year in the woods he moved to Boston. Over the next decade he had a private healing practice using shiatsu, reflexology and flower essences, working as a healer using the laying on of hands in local churches and hospitals. During this time Joe started his own construction company, Cooperative Designs, based on the collaborative approach to working with the elements made famous by the Findhorn Community in Scotland.

THERAPIST – Realizing that the physical illnesses he was treating in his healing work originated from our thoughts and beliefs, he studied to become a psychotherapist at Interface Foundation and The Option Institute, where he also worked with autistic children. In his 30’s, he had a private psychotherapy practice in Massachusetts and taught workshops on meditation, visualization and creative play at various healing centers in the New England area.

ADVENTURE AND PLAY – Joe worked as a wilderness guide for several Outward Bound schools, leading groups of students and adults sailing, camping, canoeing and hiking into the wilds of Florida and New England. Combining his wilderness skills from Outward Bound with his holistic facilitation skills, he began leading daylong spiritual adventure retreats for individuals, couples and men’s and women’s groups. Joe founded Planetary Partners to give form to one of his greatest passions; bringing groups of kindred souls together and aligning with the power, magnificence and beauty of Nature for personal & planetary transformation.

CORPORATE SHAMAN – Outward Bound hired him as a lead facilitator for their Professional Development programs, and as he combined it with his use of psychosynthesis, (the basis for the holistic movement), it resulted in clients getting tremendous breakthroughs. In his desire to expand upon this work, in 1990 he started Growing Edge Adventures, his own Consulting Company that today takes executives on Leadership Retreats around the world.

DOLPHIN WHISPERER – In 1995, Joe took a long walk off a short pier and had a life-changing encounter with a pod of wild dolphins. The joy and oneness he experienced with them touched him to his core, and he stepped out of the water a changed man. Since that time, he’s been bringing groups and families to swim with wild dolphins and whales in different parts of the world, and has been called a ‘Dolphin Whisperer’ for the affinity he shares with them.

MERMAN – BRIDGING LAND & SEA

In 2008, Joe was invited to a Leadership Retreat on Isle Royale with a group of Native Elders, who recognized him as coming from the lost tribe of Mer-People, those who bridge land and sea, and he was given the name ‘Niin Besh’, i.e. Merman.

Joe takes great joy in sharing his love of life with kindred spirits. He’s a masterful life coach, guide and facilitator, and his passion for life continues to lead him in ever unfolding adventures, of which he’s delighted to share with you.