Why do we do what we do?

I've always been curious about people's motivations and resistance.

It was at conversations, lectures and workshops about human behavior that I started meeting professional coaches.

Over time, and over tea, one coach after another commented on my natural ability do do what coaches are trained to do: listen powerfully, support objectively and inspire naturally.

I had been hosting creative get-togethers for years. Through talking with different coaches, I started seeing how coach training could influence my gatherings, grounding them in a genuineness, an authenticity. Participants could now experience my events as invitations to innovation, and as antidotes to life-on-autopilot.

I also realized that to become a coach, to support people in actually getting what they want in life, I would need to strengthen my integrity, doing what I say I'll do when I say I'll do it. I committed to become a coach, and staked my livelihood on it, so that it holds my own life to a higher standard.

So I trained through Life Purpose Institute, accredited through the International Coach Federation (ICF).

I'm serving my second term on the Board of Directors for SF Coaches, the San Francisco chapter of the ICF.

And I'm always continuing my training through, among others, Coaches Training Institute, Human Awareness Institute, Landmark Education and WholeBody Wisdom.

I coach creatively - inspired by a lifetime of adventure - from hosting interactive tours of variety shows in abandoned buildings, to investing a dozen years of participation within Burning Man, a community of radical self-expression and self-reliance.

I imagine Albert Einstein wore a wry smile as he said
"we cannot solve our problems that we have created
with the same thinking that created them in the first place"

As a kid, I crafted cardboard scraps into everything from passenger planes for eggs, to robots with flour-paste faces. As a teenager, I produced concerts in my small town, so I could book my own bands. In my 20s, I wrote magazine articles about fringe experiences, and created elaborate experiences for groups of over 100 costumed guinea pig... oof, uh... participants.

Now I meld powerful practices from my coach training with my fascination for adventure and the freshest ways to "know thyself." I invent my life as I move forward, refusing to simply duplicate hand-me-down parameters from family, friends or culture. I take on challenges differently, to get different results.