about me

I do have many years in formal institutional training, from college to university to agroforestry courses, and also have years in non credentialing mentorship from teachers like Solea Anani of Archetypal Mythos and Martha Travers of Contemplative Studies at Michigan and Kat Lee of Business Alchemist Mentorship. 

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Yet the heart of the truth is that it’s not the courses, certifications, or credentials I’ve earned that have honed the skills I need to guide you. It is the way I’ve moved through life, learning consciously from human and nonhuman teachers. It is the way I’ve traveled. It is the way I’ve listened. From personal interactions, deep and sprawling conversations, conscious reading of incredible authors, intuition based writing: these are the ways I’ve shaped myself and am in the process of becoming. 

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I’ve engaged with these processes with intention and focus. I’ve moved through life in a way that is endlessly curious, very thirstily attuning to the lessons of teachers around me. And, most of all, it has been the way I’ve contemplatively lived my own life, experientially tapping into the practices of my mentors, whether they be human guides, authors, or the elements, to understand what it is to be human. I’ve lived the human project with hungry curiosity and vulnerable authenticity, and I think this is what makes a qualified guide. I don’t think it is the credentials or degrees. 

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I think credentials and degrees can give people permission and confidence to move forward in their path, and sometimes can offer useful methodology and learnings. However, I strongly believe it is not the only way to become a highly skilled and useful person. I believe that it has often morphed into a type of expensive or elitist gatekeeping project. I am a learner, schooled and unschooling. I have walked through the gates and around them. I am here, awake, and listening.

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