My teaching philosophy is participatory. Simply put, people learn more when they’re doing things: saying things and using their bodies. The more embodied the learning, the more likely it will create a lasting impact.

Learning environments are a space also of role fluidity. We learn communally: I learn from my students while providing a safe learning environment for them to learn from me and each other.

I have over six years classroom experience teaching math, science and English. I’ve worked with children in elementary school, taught in high schools, adult education, and at the University level as a graduate research and teacher’s assistant.

Facilitating groups is an art. Much as a conductor listens to the many sections for coherence, dissonance and absence, a facilitator uses detachment, beginner’s mind, curiosity and creativity to create safety and allow charges to rise and fall and find resolution. Being in a truly transformative space often requires emotional vulnerability – it is difficult work to witness and be witnessed in our dissonance and risk exile or shame. As a facilitator, it is those things for me as well, intense, difficult and there’s nothing I’d rather be doing. There is magic where there is trust in the container. This magic speaks of a larger organizing intelligence possible when many unite. It’s my life’s work to be a space for the magic of a greater octave to come through.

I’ve worked as a Mindfulness Communications Coach and Workshop Facilitator in dozens of countries around the world. Leading multicultural groups ranging from 10 to 30 people, through transformative, participatory, life-changing experiences. It’s an honor to walk people through facing their fear, embracing the power of their vulnerability and overcome their ineffective habits.

And they do, every time.

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Other facilitation skills such as archetypal work, dream body and trauma informed nervous system regulation work heavily inform my philosophy. I’m a certified Women’s Temple facilitator and Yoga Instructor. I ran my own Yoga Studio in Goa, India for three years. I’ve worked with a Neurophysiologist on my own personal healing journey and habitually stay informed on applied research in this field.

Much of human behavior is driven by the subconscious mind. Or as we say in Process Work, it is secondary, or outside of our primary consensus reality lens. These can be beautiful things, driving positive behavior; and they can be places of hurt where our power gets locked up in loops and drives ineffective behavior.

I’ve coached close to a thousand people over the last five years as a Communications Coach. And over the last two years, I’ve begun developing my expertise as a certified Process Worker –  a close relationship to Jungian Psychology – and as a certified Process Oriented Coach.

As a coach and awareness facilitator, I partner with you, we move at your speed and depth. Through this partnership, awareness, relationality and empowerment grow, helping you to harmonize, actualize and co-create with your process.

I see myself as a space for you to experience the deeper undercurrents of your Self. As a relational mirror, I bring in what I see, testing it against your experience. Fundamental to my role as a coach is inner work. Which means, I do my own work – inside and outside of the session.

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One of the ways I process and make sense of my experience is to explore the edges of my known world. This is where art comes in. I write, I use instruments, sounds and voice to create soundscapes and I animate research using media, including the body.

I grew up a dancer and have stayed a dancer, although I don’t always make enough time to dance. The disciplines I’ve been immersed in include Ballet, Modern, Jazz, Flamenco, West African, Tribal Belly dance and Postmodern Contemporary.  I lived onstage as a performer in my youth. And was a part of a couple of productions in my 20’s and 30’s. I’ve ventured into partner dances like Salsa, Tango and other ballroom dances to a lesser extent.

I learn who I am and what I think when I write. I write. I write.