my
story
" we will not be reborn in neat places . . . ”
- Bayo Akomolafe
As a bi-lingual rite of passage guide, clinical psychotherapist, and creative director the roots of my work are direct relationship with land and kin, social change, and self-generated ceremony.
Collective responsibility and ancestral recovery has led me to explore my relationship with modernity/coloniality, and re-rooting the earth honoring traditions of my Scottish, Irish, English, and Eastern European heritage.
What makes me come alive is the trill of pygmy nuthatch, catching fox at my doorstep, feeling the pull of that first wave, and the inexplicable magic of serendipity.
How we allow ourselves to be shaped by the initiation that is life is what truly matters.
What has unearthed for me, being worked by the pressure that is life, the force that turns sand into pearl is that . . .
The Earth can hold the pure dissolution of the human heart.
We each have an innate calling – we just need to be quiet enough to listen.
Trust the grit, trust the ceremony and . . .
Trust the magic.
current paths
- creative director | Global Biodiversity Narrative Project
- rites of passage guide | The School of Lost Borders
- central & south america program instructor | Where There Be Dragons
- justice, equity, diversity, decolonization, inclusion council | Wilderness Guides Council
- board member | Wild Mountain Retreats
/ / / PRIOR PATHS / / /
- career development counselor | Naropa University
- senior account executive | MRM // McCann
- outreach director and field instructor | Women’s Wilderness
- global educator & spanish instructor | LeapYear, Global Gap Year Program
- account manager | Struck
gathering seeds
learning & unlearning
- MASTERS OF ARTS, CLINICAL MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING, SPECIALIZATION IN WILDERNESS & TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY | Naropa University
- BACHELORS OF ARTS, MARKETING | The University of Utah
- RITES OF PASSAGE GUIDE TRAINING | School of Lost Borders
- WILDERNESS FIRST RESPONDER | Wilderness Medicine Institute
- TRAUMA INFORMED CARE FOR DIVERSE POPULATIONS | Noeticus Training Center
- ADVANCED CALLING IN | Loretta J. Ross
- BEFORE WE WERE WHITE | White Awake
- DIALECTICAL BEHAVIOR THERAPY | Noeticus Training Center
- HERBALISM & THE MEDICINE WOMAN PATH 1.0 & 2.0 | Journey to Wellness
- SHARED ROOTS & ANTI-OPPRESSION | Eco-Institute
- RIGHT USE OF POWER | Naropa University
- WHITE FRAGILITY | Robin DiAngelo
- AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP | Authentic Leadership Center
- MINDFULNESS AT WORK | Authentic Leadership Center
- AWARENESS-BASED SYSTEMS CHANGE | Presencing Institute, MITx
* resume available upon request & better used as kindling
interbeing with earth, art & kin are the heart tracks i follow
finding my way through the realms of marketing and wilderness therapy. the constraint of healing and connection in the system.
disconnection in the system. dismembered and misremembered. whiteness, coloniality, capitalism, modernity. same faces different names. in vain. veins and rivers that when tended – mended become medicine.
ancestral aches and pains. paining and plaguing many. i find my way back through the land & ceremony.
kin as chickadee – dee – dee, fox, raven, rosemary, lemon balm. lands both familiar and foreign.
the purity of joy. of truth. of beingness.
unbecoming.
unlearning and re-membering my – our – way home.
welcome home.