For over four decades, one thread has run through very different chapters — outdoor education and wilderness medicine, then twenty years running Straw & Timber Craftsmen. Along the way I also trained as a mindfulness and meditation teacher, and in life and Ikigai (purpose) coaching.

During those years we built dozens of homes with a lower-impact, higher-efficiency model — navigating ideals, desires, and budgets together. I trained the builders who worked alongside me, evolved natural building technique through my design-build process, and tested homes as a building science professional.

I kept listening through all of it. Not always well — money, ego, and the need to look like I had it together all pulled at different times. But I kept coming back to the signal under the noise.

Now I'm bringing together the lessons of inner work and knowledge passed to me, and the methods to stay grounded while doing it. That combination is what makes transpersonal hypnotherapy and purpose coaching land the way they do — for the men and women I work with. I've developed a Compass framework: tools and skills to navigate your inner and outer wilderness, and find your way to being your own best friend on this journey.

The compass isn't something I give you. It's something you already have. My job is to help you learn to read it.