To facilitate greater awareness and clarity in individuals, teams, and communities about what they feel, value, and want to manifest. I primarily practice this as a coach of individuals (mostly leaders) and teams. I have been on a long personal development path, including time solo in nature. These vision quests and wilderness solos have created a higher consciousness of my symbiotic relationship with nature.

I seek to enable a greater weaving of human communities and ecosystems to enable all of life to adapt and grow together through the challenges ahead.

I want to work with a team of like-minded folks committed to inspiring and supporting organizations and communities to embrace all of life in their decision-making. To acknowledge that an economy that 'succeeds' at the cost of the earth and the expense of large portions of human and more than human life is not an economy in its original definition of steward. My role would be as an inspirational speaker, convener, listener, and facilitator. Since I am also a creative idea person, maybe I can also contribute ideas for my clients to manifest their potential.

I have no pre-conceived goals other than to learn to see the place I live in differently. To expunge what remains of mechanical thinking and approach all my local activities from a living systems perspective.

I founded a community-building non-profit (SageArts), and I look forward to re-evaluating our vision as I progress in this course.
I am already coaching the leadership teams of local organizations: I want to partner with existing clients and magnetize new clients and guide them to see their role in the community differently and make choices that strengthen the biodiversity and quality of life in their place.

Taking risks, owning my power, speaking from my deepest values, and being willing to face rejection.

I have a long history of playing things safe by working with consulting firms that attract clients and plug me into work.
I need to synthesize my point of view, write and speak, and be more visible about what I care about.
I need to learn to market myself and take more risks to magnetize my clients. This will require bringing in partners or advisors who have complementary skills.

personal growth-most recently-Transparent Communication (Thomas Hubl)
spiritual development
communing with nature
gestalt psychotherapy
executive coaching
transformational leadership tools
relational systems coaching (ORSC)
designing learning journeys for teams which include systems dialogue and transformational leadership tools
building an arts-based nonprofit in my community
producing concerts

Robert Kegan (developmental psychology)
Fritz Perls (gestalt psychotherapy)
Bert Hellinger (constellations)
Chogyam Truumpa Rinpoche (Shambhala Buddhism)
Alan Finger- Yoga
Plant Spirit medicine (based on Chinese 5-element theory)
John Milton-The path of liberation (wilderness solo)
School of Lost Borders (vision fast)
Ken Wilber-Integral theory
Thomas berry-The great work-
Joanna Macy-the work that reconnects
Brian Swimme-the journey of the universe
Malidoma Some' and Martin Prechtel-indigenous thinking
Isabel Wilkerson-Caste
Thomas Hubl-collective trauma
Yuval Noah Harari-Sapiens
poets:
David Whyte
John O'Donohue
Mary Oliver
Rilke

The universe is self-organizing; therefore, the earth and all the life forms have emerged over time, each level of complexity building on what came before.
Humans' role is to partner with the forces of creation to allow new forms to come into being and to be stewards of all of life, ensuring a balance in the ecosystems we are part of. To fulfill this role and 'to get back to the garden,' we need to acknowledge our symbiotic relationship with all the life forms in our places. We need to see the sacredness in all of life.

Barriers to this are the collective trauma from thousands of years of violence and mistreatment of one another and the planet.
As a result of trauma, many of us have become numb to our moment-to-moment experience; without this deeper connection to ourselves,
we get lost in striving to conform to societal standards and belong.