Praxis-oriented consultant and designer applying spirituality in service of world-building.
I'm a writer and designer working with the consilience of multiple disciplines: complexity science, contemplative studies, cognitive neuroscience, and transformative education to name a few. My work at Perspectiva centres on world-building - designing practices and frameworks that might help us navigate the metacrisis by cultivating new spiritual technologies for our time.
My consulting draws from complexity science to design practices and social architectures for communities, attending to attitudinal and perceptual dimensions that enable communities connection to a desired direction of travel and their purpose.
As an ordained Zen monk, years of meditation retreats have grown my awareness of what altered time perception and non-ordinary states offer transformation and systems change - insights I also bring into embodiment work that bridges contemplative wisdom with cognitive neuroscience and contemporary sense-making techniques.
My practice design is inspired by metatheoretical frameworks (Critical Realism, Integral Theory, Complex Thought), biology and consciousness studies, as well as nondual spirituality - particularly my study in the Diamond Approach.
I'm interested in creating meaningful connections between traditions that honour both theoretical coherence and lived experience. My training and courses balance the philosophical with the practical, emphasising embodied practices that develop our capacities to navigate towards desired futures, both personally and collectively.
The world-building question that animates me: what new spiritual technologies and embodied practice designs might cultivate the individual and collective capacities we need to respond wisely to civilisational complexity? I hold big questions lightly, approaching the work with playfulness and experimental spirit - recognising that responding to complexity requires both rigour and a willingness not to take ourselves too seriously ;)
