My lineage includes the teachings of:
bell hooks – critical consciousness, racism, feminism, education, love and community
adrienne maree brown – emergent strategy, liberated relationship, & transformative justice
Audre Lorde – racism, intersectional oppression, and social justice
Octavia Butler – philosophy of change and visions of the future
William Ury – transformative justice, mediation, The Third Side
Peter Block and Paul Born– community building
M Scott Peck, MD – self awareness & psychology of community
Christina Baldwin and Anne Linnea – circles
Martin Luther King, Jr. – Beloved Community
Parker Palmer – belonging & circles of trust
Starhawk – community building and collaborative leadership
John Welwood – psycho-spirituality and relationship as spiritual practice
Andrew Solomon – identity and inclusion
Leo Buscaglia – Love
Frances Weller – grief and ritual
Heather Plett – holding space and circles
Sarah Schulman – conflict is not abuse
Carl Jung – self awareness, shadow work and archetypes
Caroline Myss – self awareness, shadow work & archetypes
Charles Eisenstein – sacred economics and gift economy
Lewis Hyde – gift economy
As a human and a professional who is always pushing my edges and evolving, I’m currently studying and skill-building in the transformative justice oriented Alive Program for harm reduction and nurturing intimacy in relationships founded by Hamish Sinclair in the San Francisco Bay Area.