July 7, 2007
For Immediate Release

Message in a Bottle: “Passing on wisdom from fathers to their children

(Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia) – Humans have to learn everything.  While we start with a few primitive reflexes, we are dependent on others – first and sometimes foremeost our parents – to prepare us to survive.

“Childhood is an invention of modernity,” says Tyler Hayden, co-editor of the Message in a Bottle series of books.  “For most of history, kids lived and worked alongside adults.  That’s how they learned.  That’s how parents passed on life’s lessons.”  Today, according to Hayden, things are different.  Parents, especially fathers, have fewer opportunities, or don’t make the time to create the opportunity to pass on wisdom gained through experience.

“My dad taught me a lot,” says Tyler Hayden.  “Oh, I didn’t recognize it at the time of course and I’m quite sure that it was hard for him to break the patern of day-to-day “take out the garbage” and “brush your teeth” instruction to talk to me about the important things.”  That inspired Hayden to edit and publish a book of wisdom and sound advice from fathers to their offspring.

Together with colleague Dana Phillip Doiron, a father of five ranging in age from five to thirty-five, he is collecting material for A Message in a Bottle: from Fathers to their Children.  “Eventually, we see this as a series that gives fathers, mothers, grandparents and others a chance to pass on their wisdom, their experience, and their love.” The first edition, a collection of messages from fathers to their children, will be published in the fall of 2007.

To date, Hayden and Doiron have received submissions from fathers separated from their children through family break-up, prison sentences, and estrangement for various
reasons; from father’s to their lost or terminally ill child; as well as messages to new born children and those about to leave the nest.

“Some are poignant; all are distilled nuggets of solid advice,” says Doiron, who is on the sixth rewrite of his own “message” in which he recounts what he learned from his oldest children and how he hopes the younger will benefit.

Tyler Hayden and Dana Phillip Doiron are available for interview.  To arrange a time, please call or email: 902.624.0432 partners@eastlink.ca

The Editors

One meeting planner testimonial was that Tyler Hayden is Canada’s "answer to alternative energy."  He is an electrifying, professional and humorous motivational keynote speaker!  His high-quality keynote speeches, team building programs, and interactive workshops have delivered meeting planners standing ovations for over a decade.  Tyler's background in business, human development and outdoor adventure inform his humorous and empowering stories that captivate audiences. 

Dana Phillip Doiron, the founder and managing partner of Partners Strategy Group, has been involved in on-site crisis communications including as the senior communications counsel on the Swissair Flight 111 crash investigation, the Aboriginal Fisheries conflict, and during a food tampering threat for a major food distributor. He lives on the Atlantic seacoast of Nova Scotia with his wife Nancy and their children. A strong supporter of the local wineries, Dana is working on his first novel.