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HQP Teacher Profile
Cheshta Buckley
“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity
and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
 Twenty-eight
years ago in his of homeland Ireland, Cheshta Buckley was an accounting
professor at Dublin’s prestigious Institute of Technology.
While his work was rewarding, after six years in the lecture halls
he found himself with a deepening curiosity about personal and spiritual
growth – wondering what made him – and others –
tick. Following his heart, he left Ireland and traveled the world,
visiting spiritual communes in the UK and the U.S.; picking up work
as a ranch hand and construction worker while studying everything
from transpersonal psychology to astrology.
Along the way, Cheshta met and married his wife Ginger in 1987.
With a shared love for the ocean, they sold their house, bought
a 38-foot classic wooden sailboat, and sailed the South Pacific
Islands for two years. On their return, a hurricane at sea almost
ended Cheshta’s life, deepening his search for his life’s
purpose.
At the urging of friends Premda Haberle and Tim Laurence (of Hoffman
UK), Cheshta did the Process in 1994, and his life was forever changed.
“The Process let me find myself. I was able to accept my
loving heart and view it not as a sign of weakness, but as one of
my greatest strengths, for the very first time,” he said.
Cheshta made the decision then and there to share what he’d
found at the Process by going through the rigorous training necessary
to become a Process teacher, and 10 years later he still loves the
work. “Where else can you help people heal the past, be present
to the moment, and change the future?” he asked. “Being
witness to moments of transformation is a great gift, and since
Ginger’s a Process teacher as well, we get to share our life’s
work.”
When not teaching the Process, Cheshta spends his time on Cape
Cod, Mass., boating, fishing, bird-watching, building with wood
and stone, and when it strikes his fancy, helping to run his and
Ginger’s Cape Cod bed and breakfast, the Red Brook Retreat.
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