USA •
Upstate New York
2025

Peter Navratil

Ron Hering Award – 2025

“To co-create a world of peaceful coexistence by treating myself and others with dignity, respect and compassion.”

Courageous Lion w/Fierce Loving Heart, Peter K. Navratil, LCSW-R is a clinical social worker, cultural worker, and elder devoted to the work of healing, accountability, and right relationship. For over 45 years, he has walked alongside individuals, families, and communities, helping transform trauma into pathways of dignity and repair. As Co-Founder Emeritus of Tree of Hope Counseling, he has helped cultivate a community of care rooted in compassion and integrity. In the ManKind Project, Peter serves as a Co-Lead Elder in the Upstate New York community, tending circles where men are invited into truth, responsibility, and brotherhood. His work lives at the intersection of depth psychology, grief, and relational ethics. After the loss of his mother to impaired driving, he turned grief into service—bearing witness, speaking truth, and working toward prevention. He is the founder of Unividuation, a call beyond the self toward shared responsibility, collective healing, and the courage to live in service of life.