Welcome.
I am a partner for individuals, communities, and organizations seeking to transform and build toward life-giving futures.
Anthropology | Psychology | Ecology | Transformation | Systems & Process Design | Community Facilitation | Transformative Justice | Group Imagining
We are participants in a great cosmic dance of beings, intelligences, energies, all moving together in a creative process of becoming. In this incarnation we are contributing to, and collaborating on, the building of our personal and shared realities. I sense that many undesirable patterns we see repeated throughout history - such as domination, oppression and violence - and which many observe as woven throughout our relational and material existences today, have arisen from, and are sustained by, an uninspected, confoundingly rich, beautifully dynamic matrix of conditions that informs our very existence. In my life’s work, I desire to participate in cultivating the language, abilities and socio-cultural technologies to explore this space.
We are never not creating
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We are never not creating 〰️
“Things and beings are their relations, they do not exist prior to them.”
-Arturo Escobar, Designs for the Pluriverse
As above, so below. As below, so above.
As above, so below. As below, so above.
“The brain and central nervous system and maybe the whole body, depending on who you talk to, is really proactive – wildly proactive. It’s building for itself all the time based on its own network of beliefs about how the world works, what’s about to happen next, and it’s only using sensory information as a training signal to check how it’s doing at making those great expectations that constitute our experience of the world. So, just the cool take home from that is you’re building for yourself, from the top down, your reality all the time. That’s based just on the kind of belief networks that you have installed.” - Dr. Mark Miller
“It is our desires that determine the kinds of worlds we create.”
-Arturo Escobar, Designs for the Pluriverse
We do not have control, but we do have choice.
What is possible is beyond what we might dare to imagine. To find out, we must shift our relationship to the unknown, and the myth that we have control. We must unravel from our muscles and narratives, fasciae and thoughts, cells and emotions, communities and hearts the stories of human supremacy, domination, perpetuity, scarcity, linearity. When we learn how to let go, how to let die and how to be moved by the rhythms and intelligences that move all things, we come into contact with our agency, and we discover our choice .
“A world where many worlds fit.”
The Zapatista conception of the pluriverse is a wise, insightful philosophy. I honor and prostrate to the multiplicitous ways of being and the various forms of intelligence beyond our comprehension.
It’s all fractal.
The site of my work is anywhere humans are and where transformation toward more caring worlds is desired.