About Kim John Payne, M.Ed

Kim John Payne is an Australian who has for 24 years worked as a counselor, adult educator, consultant/researcher and educator.

Kim John has been helping children, adolescents and families explore issues such as social difficulties with siblings and classmates, attention and behavioral issues at home and school, emotional issues such as defiance, aggression, addiction and self-esteem.

Kim John has researched and implemented a Social Inclusion Approach in many communities, which helps overcome anti social behavior, bullying and teasing in school and at home. He is at present engaged in an extensive research project, focusing on exploring and developing a drug free approach to Attention Related Disorders. He was the Founding Director of 'The Challenge of Adolescence,' a training course for therapists, teachers and parents.

He is the Project Director of the Waldorf Community Collaborative Counseling Program at Antioch University New England.  This is a course aimed at training future Waldorf School & Family Counselors and also teachers to better understand social and emotional issues of children and teens and to support home and school life. He was the Founding Co Director of the Eastern European Institute of Spatial Dynamics (Hungary) and the Co Director of the Michael Institute of Spatial Dynamics (England).

He also regularly consults in colleges, clinics and schools throughout the USA and abroad, focusing especially on helping teachers and parents remove emotional and social obstacles from the paths of their children.

He is presently based in Harlemville, New York, USA. He is the author of the book `The Games Children Play,' (1996) published by Hawthorn Press and is presently working on his two new books, Simplicity Parenting and The Soul of Discipline..

Kim John strives to deepen understanding and give practical tools for life that arise out of the burning social issues of our time.