We are honoring Father Patrick Tyrrell, a Gordon Training Instructor who has taught over 3,500 people (170 courses), including P.E.T., T.E.T., Be Your Best, Y.E.T. and L.E.T.  Paddy, who is now 82 years old, has been an Instructor for 34 years, first in Ireland and for the past 20 years, in Chicago through Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Glenview, IL.  He takes large groups of teenagers on camping trips and teaches them I-Messages and Active Listening-he says they keep him young.

He is like family to us here.  He has a warm and delightful (and sometimes sarcastic) sense of humor, his Irish lilt when he laughs and teases us, his never-ending energy to teach the Gordon Model-he's a humble powerhouse and an inspiration to us and the thousands of people he's trained...