I know this terrain from the inside.
I’ve spent decades inside the systems that shape our world.
As a Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala, and later as an organic farmer in the Pacific Northwest, I learned that meaningful change rarely begins with expertise or control. It begins with relationship. With listening. With learning how to work in partnership with people, place, and the living systems that sustain us.That understanding has shaped everything since.
Over the years, I’ve led international teams, built cross-sector partnerships, and helped steward programs focused on climate resilience, regenerative agriculture, and social and economic justice. I’ve worked in spaces shaped by urgency, complexity, and immense responsibility. And beneath all of it has been a deeper question:
How do we continue doing meaningful work without losing ourselves in the process?
Again and again, I’ve seen deeply committed people quietly running on empty. People holding organizations, communities, and movements together while struggling to find space to breathe themselves. The work of change asks a great deal of those who care deeply—and too often, the systems we are trying to transform ask us to sacrifice our own wellbeing along the way. Believe me, I know what this is like. And I know what it's like to move beyond burnout to a balanced, healthy and joyful life.
Resilience Rising grew from that reality.
This work is rooted in the belief that resilience is not about pushing harder or enduring more. It’s about staying connected—to what matters, to one another, and to the living systems that sustain us. It’s about creating the conditions for reflection, honesty, rest, and reconnection in the midst of urgency.
My approach draws from heart-centered leadership, living systems, conflict transformation, and somatic and reflective practices. But more than anything, it is shaped by years of walking alongside people doing difficult and deeply meaningful work—people navigating burnout, transition, grief, uncertainty, and the weight of caring deeply in a world in crisis.
At its heart, Resilience Rising exists to tend the fire within—to support people in sustaining their energy, clarity, and joy so their work can remain life-giving over the long arc of change.
Because lasting systems change requires people who are not only committed, but resourced.
Not only resilient, but alive.
And because caring for ourselves and one another is not separate from healing the world.
It is part of the foundation for it.
My coaching philosophy
My work is grounded in regeneration and systems thinking. I’m interested in the full human experience of living and leading through complexity—and in how our work impacts us emotionally, relationally, physically, and professionally over time.
Rather than focusing solely on performance or outcomes, I invite a deeper inquiry: how we want to show up in the world, what we are here to tend, and what it means to lead in ways that are truly life-affirming. This work creates space to slow down, listen, and reconnect with what matters most.
I support individuals and mission-driven leaders in aligning their actions with their values, renewing their sense of purpose, and cultivating the clarity, resilience, and stewardship needed to navigate complexity and change. This is not about fixing or optimizing—it is about remembering, reconnecting, and strengthening the inner and collective capacities that allow people and movements to thrive over time.
