John (Etzimcha-Chaninah) Hample, MA MAdEd is a western Canadian rabbinic candidate, Mussar facilitator, and adult educator specializing in program development and the pedagogy of situated/social learning. He is a neohasidic Masorti Jew affiliated with North End Winnipeg’s egalitarian-Conservative Congregation Etz Chayim. He is a TMI Manchim-certified facilitator whose approach to the rabbinate reflects keen, convergent interest in adult Jewish education, 21st-century Mussar, and the bright possibilities of neohasidic praxis. He encourages other mussarniks to develop their own hashkafot/standpoint and ways of engagement in a grounded, sustainable personal practice.

John's career has focused on building curriculum learning-supports to better prepare coaches/mentors and learners/mentees to function as self-directed learners across  highly complex learning-environments. In even earlier life, John was a daily newspaper reporter, a labour historian, a university instructor, cabinetmaker, and union activist. He serves (2021-2023) on the End Homeless Winnipeg Board of Directors, and as shul-based Winnipeg Harvest foodbank volunteer. By July 2023, he hopes  to be ordained, and on way better terms with middot savlanut, seder, and histapkut.