I aspire to bring people together to co-create in ways that harness their potential and shape their future. This work emphasizes new roles and relationships, as well as increased awareness of who we are as a community. 

• Graduated from St. Martin’s School of Art in London.

• Founded of the Southampton Dancers’ Workshop in England, inspired by the teachings of Anna Halprin, blending expressive movement and interpersonal exploration, which led to more than 100 workshops.

• Longtime student/practitioner of Vipassana Meditation in the U Ba Khin tradition as taught by S.N. Goenka.

• Trained and worked in traditional carpentry and joinery as a member of the “Japanese” woodworking crew at Green Gulch Zen Center, Muir Beach, California, where the emphasis was on joinery, hand tools, natural materials, precision, and an aesthetic appreciation of human-scale buildings. 

• As a master planner and designer, partnered on the design of retreat centers and co-housing projects.

• Completed the Regenerative Practitioner Series in 2016 with The Regenesis Institute in New Mexico. Regenesis is asking how we can bring our human communities back into life-giving alignment with the ecological systems that nourish us. This requires infrastructure and systems change.

• Cofounded Living Guild, whose projects have included The Russian River Confluence, a multi-agency collaborative effort that continues to explore our relationship with the watershed we live in. Through Living Guild, became a founding member of Regenerating Paradise in response to the most destructive fire in California's history, focusing on facilitating social, cultural, and collaborative aspects of the rebuild process.