I have always been curious about what helps people come home to themselves.

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My path has taken many forms. I have worked as an educator, mindfulness practitioner, writer, coach, nonprofit founder, consultant, circle facilitator, and retreat leader. While the settings have changed over the years—from classrooms and therapeutic schools to leadership teams, retreat centers, and community circles—the heart of my work has remained remarkably consistent: creating the conditions for greater presence, clarity, courage, compassion, and connection.

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I began teaching in 1990 and quickly became fascinated by a simple question: Why do some people thrive while others remain stuck, disconnected, or overwhelmed despite their best efforts?

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That question led me on a long journey of learning and practice.

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Along the way, I became a mindfulness instructor, earned a Master's degree in Mindfulness for Educators, completed advanced training in trauma-informed practices, studied restorative approaches, trained in rites of passage work, and became certified in 5D Trauma-Informed Enneagram Coaching. I have facilitated circles for more than twenty years and spent eight years deeply immersed in Circle Work practice and facilitation. These experiences, together with ongoing study in neuroscience, adult development, and human transformation, continue to shape the way I work today.

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Some of my most formative professional experiences came through working with highly challenged and traumatized youth in therapeutic settings. There I learned that meaningful change rarely comes from judgment, advice, or pressure. It emerges through unconditional positive regard, safety, presence, curiosity, accountability, and a deep belief in each person's inherent worth. 

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For the past decade, I have focused much of my work on supporting schools, districts, and organizations through True Nature Teaching and later as founder and Executive Director of Starling Collaborative. I have had the privilege of coaching leaders, facilitating team development, supporting organizational change, and helping educators build more restorative, equitable, and human-centered communities.

Throughout all of these experiences, I have returned again and again to the same insight: beneath our roles, achievements, fears, and defenses lies a deeper wisdom waiting to be heard.

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Whether I am coaching an individual or couple, facilitating a leadership team, or guiding a retreat, my intention is the same—to create a space where people can slow down, listen deeply, tell the truth, and reconnect with the qualities that allow them to live, relate, and lead with greater clarity, courage, and compassion.

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I live in Vermont with my husband Todd. When I'm not working, you'll often find me playing with my grandchildren, walking in the woods, climbing rocks, tending a garden, reading, writing, or spending time with family and friends.