History
Brian’s early career path entered full-time school teaching in 1962 for thirteen years. In 1971 he started lecturing in Psychology for the Diploma of Youth Leadership and Communication for Prison Officers at the Victorian Institute of Social Welfare. From 1975 onwards he lectured Psychology, Education, Counselling and Communication. He was acclaimed through national and international awards as a considered expert in Special Education, Computerized biofeedback research and now in acute and chronic advanced pain control using eclectic techniques, computerised biofeedback and Budzynski subliminal relaxation and stress reduction. International scientific presentations with articles, colloquiums, books, chapters, test manuals and software were published internationally from 1969 onwards.
Since the age of five Brian was taught, “Anything we wish for with prayer, is possible”. During doctoral studies supervised by Dr Russell N. Cassel, he aspired to the classic Aristotelian axiom of “Whatever man can imagine or dream, is possible.”
Technical school was enjoyed as a superlative education but Brian’s entry test scores were less than favourable coming from a lowly background, ranking last in 250 students. Previously, failing most elementary grades 1-8 he was one of a several oldest pupils in the intake group. On repeating Grade 8, suddenly he came dux and was awarded the Coburg Gadsons Scholarship as Most Improved Student. With new gusto, Brian then joined the Air Training Corp and School Baseball Team.
Graduating from Coburg Tech with Intermediate Technical Certificate in Mechanical Engineering, he topped the class in Maths II for Engineering at the higher. Diploma Entrance standard. Despondently he left school, although ranking first in Math, to enter full-time but short-lived jobs in 1961 as a labourer, unskilled factory worker, storeman, trainee draftsman, apprentice carpenter and ANZ bank teller. Simultaneously, he studied nine part-time subjects and correspondence courses from the Royalk Melbourne Institute of Technology and passed enough including a provisional matriculation at the ANU. These prerequisites enabled entry to part-time In-service Student Teacher Training through the Victorian Education Department Counci of Publication, commencing the following year.
Brian and Paloma Sporing J. Education 2nd ACV II on returning from New York in 1999
Australian Vocational guidance had not fully developed in those early years when Brian was at school. It felt like an eternity for him to arrive at his career life mission in 1975 to become a psychologist. Since the age of five “wishing upon a star” to be a doctor to help people was his Life Mission career dream. Nostalgically he explained, “Obstacle courses on what appeared at the time as difficult credential paper chases are earned through hard work and won like marathon endurance tests.”