SWIM @ YOUR SHARK™ COACHING
Swim @ Your Shark is all about approaching the things within ourselves and perhaps the world around us that make us feel small and insignificant, and transmuting them into our greatest assets. The moment we look those things straight in the eye and swim straight for them, we realize just how powerful we truly are. Invigorated with new life and a new sense and heightened awareness about ourselves, our capacity and perhaps even, the things we thought we feared the most.
Be bold. Embrace the things about yourself that scare you and learn that there’s always more to you – and the world around you – than you ever imagined.
You never know, maybe you’re more of an apex than you ever imagined.
Sliding Scale Offered:
1.25 Hour Intake Session: $90-120
45 Minute Session: $70-90
Live, Phone & Video sessions provided. Please contact for availability.
The Backstory:
I’m an avid distance swimmer and years ago was told that if I ever saw a shark while out in the open ocean, I should swim right towards it (to catch it off guard). So months later, when the ‘opportunity arose’ (and my level of badassery was seriously called into question), I did the only thing I knew to do at the time: I swam straight for it. Yes I was terrified. Of course every fiber of my being begged me to turn around, but instead, I got a grip and approached the thing that would someday become by greatest teacher.
Years later, I began to process the experience – and my fears around it – through a series of shark artwork (check out my gallery). And even though I had been a professional artist and art teacher for over 6 years at the time, I still doubted myself and felt like a fraud. It wasn’t until my shark work began that I found my creative voice, and began to really feel like an artist. It wasn’t until I literally swam at the shark – first in the ocean, and then in myself – that I discovered my meaning, my joy and my true path as a creator.
Since then, I’ve developed a unique style of counseling – one that helps people approach the things we fear – in the world and within ourselves – and then transform them into life-giving opportunities.
LIFE & WELLNESS COACHING
Finding fun and engaging paths help you reach a balanced, centered and most joy-filled you.
Sliding Scale Offered:
1.25 Hour Intake Session: $90-120
45 Minute Session: $70-90
Live, Phone & Video sessions provided. Please contact for availability.
CREATIVE CONSULTING
I am greatly inspired by the natural world and it’s tireless dedication to creating the truly harmonic whole. My goal is to help people and organizations move through obstacles and achieve their highest, most attainable potential.
There is a feeling of greatness that comes from a personal job well done and a mission complete. More than that though, there is a sort of wonder that emerges when we get to participate in a larger dance, an well-balanced system that nourishes itself and the world around it.
This is why I call what I do ‘Creative Consulting.’ Combining my background in environmental anthropology and biology with my professional work as an artist and teacher, I created a singular brand of consulting that yields high productivity and rewarding outcomes.
Here I am in a nutshell:
- As an innovative, out of the box thinker, I have proven to be more efficient and effective when in roles and at achieving goals when managers ‘let me lose and do my thing’. While others thrive within more regulated daily structures, I’ve learned that corporate red tape only stifles my natural curiosity and self-propelled productivity. This way of working is always new, ever changing and involves various degrees of allowing inspiration to guide and realize the goals of all involved.
- Drawing on ecosystems’ performance and management strategies, I prefer to fix things using available resources, almost always opting for an intelligently elegant ‘MacGyver’ style solution in lieu of a standardized remedy.
- One of my favorite and perhaps most useful techniques is to arrive ’empty’ on any stage, platform or job setting. Minus preconceived notions of any outcome or goal, I listen, observe, inquire & eventually suggest. All the while I’m leaving plenty of space for unforeseen & unusual methodologies to present themselves.
- I tend to rattle the status quo and infuse life into stagnant scenarios, situations and souls. I’ve worked with communities and people from all walks of life and have found that everyone can benefit from creative input, insight and new vision.
- Seeing the best in people and looking for what makes every person unique and extra-ordinary enables me to focus on their most worthwhile qualities, bringing that forward into the world and workplace.
Some of my more notable successes include my quick turnaround work at the an Educational Farm Retreats in New Zealand & Hawaii; service work with the Homalco Indian Band in British Columbia; my long-term personal branding of Paint Nite in the Washington, DC Metro Area; individualized one-on-one sessions with Google employees, doctors, and children’s book authors; and innovative, bottom-up sustainable revamp of Whole Foods Market’s Flagship store in Austin, TX.