Bruce Wood

Bruce Wood has been a counsellor, therapist, educator, public speaker, community organizer and author in practice for over 30 years.  Along with a Masters of Social Psychology and a Master of Public Health from the University of Liverpool, Wood received trained at the Domestic Abuse Project in Minneapolis, MA, the Justice Institute of British Columbia, and the Interdisciplinary Institute on Hazing intervention in Indianapolis, IA.  He has many years of direct clinical experience, mostly from working with men who have used violence against women.  He has worked with programs in six different Canadian provinces, including:

• Designing and delivering of Partner Assault Programming for both provincial and federal corrections systems in Canada;
• Anger management and skills programming and facilitation for different programs, including: Family Services of Greater Vancouver, New Westminster, and Richmond, as well as the Fraser Region and the Alouette River Correctional Centres, the Vancouver Richmond Health Board and the Men’s Resource Centre of Saskatoon;
• Support, educational and risk management resources  for sport organizations affiliated with Sask Sport and Sask Manitoba, since 2001, on issues such as: hazing in sport, abuse of athletes, and bullying.  This work also includes the development of comprehensive policies and procedures focused on the prevention or effective response to hazing, abuse and bullying incidents; and
• Providing call-line advice and support, as well as presentations, for sport, culture, recreation organizers through the RespectEd program operated by Canadian Red Cross in Saskatchewan.

As an author and presenter, Wood has written and published two books (Moving Toward the Light, 2000, and A Change of Seasons , 1992) as well as numerous articles that have appeared in the Globe and Mail, Briarpatch Magazine, Macleans, the Saskatoon Star Phoenix, the Vancouver Province, the Winnipeg Free press and numerous other publications.  He has presented at various conferences including the World Conference of Indigenous Women, the National Clearinghouse of Family Violence and the 2009 Global Symposium on “Engaging Men and Boys in Achieving Gender Equality” held in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. 

Currently, Wood runs his own consulting firm, Change of Seasons Consulting, and is under contract with Sask Sport, in partnership with SaskCulture and Saskatchewan Parks and Recreation Association, to operate the 24/7 Resource Line accessible to sport, culture and recreation organizers, and associated clients, in Saskatchewan. Wood previously worked as a staff instructor at Vancouver’s Native Education College (1991-2000) and as a Project Coordinator for the Canadian Red Cross Global RespectED Project (2001- 2016).   He is a member of Men’s Resources International, Association of Progressive Healing Professionals, the network for Conflict Resolution, and is a spokesperson for the White Ribbon Campaign.