About Jon
Seskevich RN, BSN, BA, CHTP
Jon Seskevich is a nurse clinician in one of
the country's foremost medical centers.
Since 1990, Jon has provided a stress and
pain management education and consultation
service for patients, families and staff. He
works throughout the medical center with
patients who have complex and challenging
health conditions. Jon serves as a resource
for hospital staff in dealing with the
challenges inherent in the changing health
care system.
 Jon,
a Great 100
in NC Nursing award winner in
2005-06, was nominated for the Fetzer
Foundation Norman Cousin's Mind/Body
Medicine Award in 1996. In
1998 he received the Friends' of Nursing,
"Excellence in Nursing Practice" award, and
the "Alumnus of the Year" award from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
School of Nursing, Alumni Association in
1997.
Jon has given over 300 presentations,
lectures, workshops and classes that teach
stress reduction, mind-body, and
complementary therapies to hospital
patients, health care professionals,
community and church groups, and high-school
and college students. He is founder and
president of the Flying Monkey Foundation,
which sponsors mind-body-spirit educational
workshops and seminars in North Carolina.
All of Jon's programs are designed to help
nurses, doctors, health care professionals,
and peacemakers deliver more compassionate
care to patients, families and communities.
Jon is a
Certified Practitioner of Healing Touch
therapy and is responsible for bringing this
healing therapy to North Carolina through
more than twenty workshops and seminars in
the early 1990's. He is founder and
president of the Flying Monkey Workshops.
Jon began his own meditation practice in
1972. In 1975, at age 23, he started his
training as a teacher of meditation and
healing under the mentorship of meditation
expert, psychologist, spiritual teacher and
writer, Ram Dass (Richard Alpert, Ph.D.),
who wrote about Jon in 1996:
 "His
recognition of the need for both a spiritual
dimension in healing work and grounded,
responsible social action in spiritual work
have defined his career in nursing. To that
career he has brought a creative energy for
integrating, in mind-body healing,
meditative practices with stress reduction,
healing touch with traditional nursing
practices and a spiritual perspective for
patients facing traumatic illness.
"The integration of spiritual dimensions in
his work is very personal for Jon. His own
inner work takes the form of being fully
present for both patients and fellow staff
members, and offering a very warm,
heart-full human dimension to what are too
often impersonal medical procedures."
To read
a 2006 interview between Jon and two yoga
teachers click here.
"Jon is truly a brilliant example of
compassion in action. He not only serves his
patient community, but seems tireless in his
willingness to share and teach, and to
explore innovative techniques for humanizing
nursing for nurses and patients alike."
Ram Dass (Richard Alpert, Ph.D.) |
