About Me

For 30 years, I have been helping people bring more of themselves to life. I’ve done so in a range of roles, including piano teacher, adventure-based educator, corporate trainer, facilitator, counselor, consultant, and coach. 

I offer my clients space and presence: the room to discover, and the safety to reveal, what’s most alive in them. I help my clients come home to themselves, find and trust their innate knowing, and tap more of their resources, inner and outer, all in support of them moving toward what they want. 

While I work, I aim to attend to power, social identity and cultural narratives—in my client and in me. For over a decade I consulted—as part of a cross-racial, cross-gender team—to educators and non-profit organizations striving to build more equitable institutional systems and cultures, with a specific focus on racial equity. Since 2010, I have been a part of an intergenerational, multi-racial community of educators, activists, artists, and community builders working and thinking critically to strengthen our regional community. With a focus on supporting BIPOC youth leadership, we envision and build more equitable and healthy living. I bring the humility and knowledge gleaned from these experiences, along with my ongoing learning journey as a cisgender white man, to my counseling and coaching clients.

Drawing from many years of music making, movement practices and nature connection, I bring a deep regard for the creative mind, intuition, the body’s wisdom, and nature’s guidance. In addition to these, I bring to my work the lessons of my personal path toward greater dignity, courage, and ease.

For more than 10 years, I lived on a small farm in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, where my partner and I endeavored to live more lightly, grow more of our own food, and generally develop and share resiliency skills and practices—all while staying connected to our out-in-the-world work and communities. I participated in the life and death and glorious mess of farming—from birthing to butchering, mucking out stalls, scything pastures, tending tomatoes, splitting wood. The physical labor and connection to nature continue to live in me and inform my work.

The following additional pursuits sustain and enliven me

  • writing
  • playing the piano
  • working with wood
  • lifting weights and riding my bike
  • walks in the woods, sometimes with camera
  • preparing and sharing fresh, delicious food
  • loving, championing, and learning from my twin teen step-children

What I bring

The following are among the tools and experiences I draw upon in my work:

  • Certification in Shadow Work® facilitation (2001)
  • Certification in Inspirational BreathWork® facilitation (1996)
  • Graduate (1989) and former instructor (1991-1997), Outdoor Leadership Program at Greenfield Community College
  • 30+ years as a consultant/facilitator/trainer/workshop presenter
  • 12 years as a leader and facilitator of men’s work
  • 12+ years engaged in social justice and, more specifically, racial equity work
  • 35+ years practicing movement forms, including Tai Chi, Astanga Yoga, and Contact Improvisation

Other influences on my work

  • The Art of Hosting Conversations that Matter
  • Nonviolent Communication (Marshall Rosenberg)
  • Tema Okun’s work on white supremacy culture
  • Radical Acceptance, and other work of Tara Brach on healing shame
  • Internal Family Systems (Richard Schwartz, Ph.D.)
  • Resmaa Menakem’s work on somatic abolitionism and healing generational trauma (including white body supremacy) 
  • The Work of Byron Katie
  • Vipassana Meditation
  • Arnold Mindell’s World Work