The chief goal of my work is to empower people to access and embody their hidden potentials, in order to lead more excellent, creative, and fulfilling lives.

My particular areas of focus include:

Somatics & Embodiment
To transcend old limitations, sometimes we need to free ourselves from unconscious physical tensions that keep us locked into old, restrictive habits of thought and action. We must learn to physically embody the traits and capacities we wish to cultivate. Confidence, calm, groundedness, and even joy are embodied states that can be learned as physical skills.

Creativity
What would increased creativity mean for you? For professionals, it can mean greater capacity for “outside the box” solutions, greater versatility and ability to improvise effectively in new situations. For at-risk youth, it can mean the ability to generate constructive alternatives to violence and poverty. For artists and performers of all sorts, it can mean discovering ways to dig deeper than ever, unearthing buried sources of creative energy.

Neurodiversity
Different people think differently, learn differently, experience the world differently on a fundamental level. Diversity of minds is a natural form of human diversity – like ethnic, cultural, or gender diversity – and also a source of enormous creative potential. How can we honor the diversity of human minds, and cultivate the potentials of all minds, in our schools, our workplaces, our families, our society, and ourselves?

Autism
Autism is a form of human neurodiversity that comes with a complex mixture of challenges and potentials. As an autistic person who has had great success mastering the challenges of autism and cultivating its hidden potentials, I’m pleased to be able to share what I know.

For more information on my work, please check out my bio, the books I’ve contributed to, my online continuing education courses, or my aikido dojo.

I speak to large crowds and small gatherings. I teach groups of all sizes. I work with organizations, teams, and individuals. I work in all kinds of settings – retreat centers, classrooms, conference rooms, auditoriums, dance and yoga studios. I’ve worked with educators, mental health professionals, managers, college students, high school students, children, parents, actors, artists, attorneys, autistic youth and adults, researchers, recovering addicts, yoga teachers, and gang members.

I’ll never make you sit through a PowerPoint presentation. My working methods are engaging, active, and experiential. I get people thinking, talking, moving, feeling, trying things out.

To arrange a presentation, workshop, training, or consultation, email me.

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