To save time, I'm pasting my answer to a similar question asked in the pre-enrollment questionnaire.
Tell us about your current practice and how you aspire to evolve it.*
My careers have focused on sustainable design, environmental art, writing, and teaching. They have moved increasingly in the direction of systems thinking and an integrated view of humans and the rest of nature. My three most relevant current practice(s): I co-lead Design for Community Regeneration (D4CR), a community design assistance initiative at U of MN using geodesign. I lead Minnesota GreenStep Schools, a free and voluntary statewide best practices framework, community of practice, and recognition program. Through my art studio, I develop Earth Systems Journey, an art/design-led experiential environmental education model to reveal the continuity of human-engineered and natural infrastructure and our place midstream of larger flows. I apply this model both independently and through U of MN teaching and projects. Across all these, but particularly for D4CR, I hope to deepen and clarify my approach to regenerative design, and become more effective at collaborative systems transformation toward a thriving future for communities. For GreenStep Schools, I aspire to make it more effective at its systems approaches to building school greening identity, capacity, and progress. For Earth Systems Journey, I hope to explore and clarify next steps for where and how to apply it in a way that better extends its impact beyond the initial experience.

I have multiple life roles, but as related to my work in the world, I am an architect/designer, artist, writer, systems transformation worker, and I often call myself a "paradigm worker," as I see paradigm work as key to systems change.

To continue to learn to better collaborate / design for positive systems transformation.

Balance, less striving/pushing, more trusting the work together.

I have gone through multiple evolutions of environmental design thought/frameworks in my career since the 80s. Energy efficient, earth friendly, environmentally responsible, high performance, sustainable, green, - now engaging with Regenerative. While sometimes used interchangeably, I am interested in the substantive difference in these models and the different approaches to these models. I am interested in developing professionally to continue exploring regenerative design as a way of seeing and practicing.

I've invested a great deal of time, and attention/focus to a career in sustainable design. I have chosen paths that allowed me to work at the edges I'm most interested in, where I have hoped to make impact. This has often, in the last 10 years meant I chose to forego job stability and competitive pay to work as a part time researcher and adjunct in Academia, because it was the most exciting, meaningful work. I've invested in my professional development, relationships, and reflection.

Earlier - Art, ceramics (folk approaches to design for use),
Later - architecture, sustainable design, environmental public art, altered photography.
And then Liberal Studies degree, interdisciplinary approaches, experiential place-based environmental education.

Thinkers - Donella Meadows (particularly Places to Intervene in a System, and video talks), David Suzuki (Particularly The Sacred Balance), Christopher Alexander, Alan Watts, Thich Nhat Hanh (interbeing, particularly), Eco-Criticism, Geodesign (Carl Steinitz, and Geodesign community), Indigenous people I've met and lit I've read, Many more.

Humans are a species among many, belonging to the larger world, inherently called to be caring.