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I create spaces that connect us with a sense of the numinous: real places, fictional worlds, both enduring and ephemeral. Welcoming high-agency, wisdom-seeking collaborators.
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Portrait by Andrei Andreev
8-10 years: Establish a peer learning university and research lab using social learning models to address collective problems.
2-4 years: Settle in a walkable “live-near-friends” neighborhood with common spaces, shared meals, and peer learning programs.
1-3 years:
Past lives:
🌱 Possibility even over perfection.
💪🏼 Responsibility even over comforting patterns.
🌷 Aliveness, even over convenience.
🧘🏼♀️ Depth, even over excitement.
| 🌎 Stay pragmatic. To build a new world, we need to respect the one that exists already. | 🔬 Attention transforms. We bring out the genius in each other by the quality of attention we give. | ⛰️ Place is teacher. Everybody learns better in places intentionally designed for learning. |
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| 🦆 Anything is possible. This is a spirited world and what’s possible is limited only by our imagination and will. | 🫶🏼 Love takes practice. Choosing to love ourselves and our neighbors means committing to ongoing growth, and is worth it. | 👀 As we include, so we discern. All are loved and respected, but everyone is on their own path learning at their pace in their way. |
| ✨ Mysticism is now. Everything is divine and we can tune into it in each moment if we choose to. | 🖼️ Words frame reality. The words we choose matter. They have the power to create new beginnings. | 🫀 Joy is power. The reenchantment of the world starts with a single joyful voice - probably yours. |
Influences
2025: Today my core influences are Christopher Alexander, especially his late work The Nature of Order; Maria Montessori; Paul Selig’s Guides, and Jacob Collier.
Non-professional interests
Aikido, the I Ching, walking labyrinths, contact improvisation, mystical traditions, how attention works, nonviolent communication, making things with young children, and Persian language, culture & cuisine.
Weird quirks and fun facts
I have a ironclad daily morning routine. I like working out in virtual reality. I’m an ambivert. Some people think I’m “too much” or have teased me for having a peter pan complex. I find it difficult to engage in social media but I will do it for the sake of the work. I invented a tango card game.
☕ If you feel drawn to anything I’ve shared here and sense that it would be joyous or productive to have a conversation, please set up time on my calendar.
📷 Image Acknowledgment
Some of the photographs on this site include moments from my years leading and co-creating Oxygen Tango (2009–2017), a beloved community where so much creative learning took place. These images are shared in the spirit of honoring that history and the people who made it possible.
If you appear in a photo and would prefer it not be displayed, please just let me know! I respect each friend pictured here and honor your preferences.