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The Entheos Project
David Wade Pope
Who brings this work

David Wade Pope

Founder, BGD Collective · Architect, The Entheos Project

He has stood in all three rooms: as one who trained the people who work in medicine, and as the person all three could not reach.

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The work

The Entheos Project exists for the person every system touches and no system holds.

David Wade Pope is a Fleet Marine Force Search and Rescue Corpsman. He spent more than twenty years in neuromodulation and interventional pain, in clinical research management and trial design. He has been in continuous recovery since September 2017. He writes on the gap between medicine, faith communities and peer recovery, and on what happens to people who fall through it. He is not a clinician and makes no clinical recommendation.

Medicine

He spent more than twenty years in neuromodulation and interventional pain, in clinical research management and trial design.

He trained fellows in cadaver labs. He led physician and practice workshops, gave conference and society presentations, and trained investigators and their staff in clinical research and trials.

Recovery

“I spent seven years trying to get sober. I could not.”

He has been in continuous recovery since September 2017.

Faith

A minister. This work began as a ministry, and he serves it.

“I was turned away from a church three times. I had walked in and told the truth about what I was carrying.”

Service

A decorated Fleet Marine Force Search and Rescue Corpsman.

A search and rescue corpsman stepping out on the rope from a Marines rescue helicopter

Fleet Marine Force Search and Rescue Corpsman

What is built

Three finished book manuscripts. One curriculum, cut to length for clinicians, congregations and recovery communities. Talks ready to give. A design for measuring whether a person is still connected months later.

“I sell no device and no treatment.”

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