Initially, I remember hearing the Organic Intelligence (OI™) concept, “The job is enjoyment”, and I was in disbelief.   My job is to enjoy life?!  Enjoy my life?! How could this happen?  How could this be my primary way of being in the world?  I could sense a part of me liked this idea...a spark of hope?

Then I heard, “Feeling better IS better”, another concept from OI Founder, Steve Hoskinson.  This statement was both intriguing and my internal cynic could find some agreement with it.  Maybe there was something here...more hope. This is when I began my OI™ explorations: connecting regularly with an OI Coach and noticing my growing engagement with OI courses and framework.  The OI sessions left me feeling more relaxed, present and compassionate for myself, along with a growing sense of well-being.  “Feeling better IS better”...really did feel better.   

After years of working in mental health and early intervention programs, I searched for what could be supportive ‘human being skills’.  What would be practical, everyday ways to let us move through our days with more ease, relaxation and compassion.  This quest had been a part of my personal and professional journey; figuring out the puzzle of what these ‘human being skills’ were or could be, so folks could be more empowered and not held hostage to their history or their automatic responses.

Organic Intelligence^® is the model where all the pieces to the puzzle came together.  I wasn’t missing anything; my biology has been ‘out of sync’...starting to feel better.

With knowledge and coaching support, the same biology can be guided to bring about its own healing.  These are the ‘human being skills’ – resourcing, nurturing and developing our innate biological capacity to be more freely who we are, and who we can be.   With more capacity, we also grow in our ability to ebb and flow through life’s challenges, shifting back to readiness and creativity rather than stress and burnout.

As my own biological capacity grew, so did my ability to see that my inner narrative had evolved out of my stuck biology.  Feeling better.  What a shift to move out of the pathological view of self that I carried for so many years due to my biology being out of sync; this was revolutionary to me. “The job is enjoyment” was showing up in my life.

Overtime, my own OI coaching sessions supported my biological and psychological evolution, bringing more attention, intention, creativity, playfulness, flexibility, satisfaction, compassion, and joy.

Maybe this could be true for you too? Let’s get to “work” and start feeling better, together.

If you are looking for:

• More enjoyment in the present moment
• An increase in your overall wellness; a sense of well-being
• More ease and curiosity in your attention
• Increasing compassion for self and others
• Discovering further what really matters to you and your life; nourishing your spirit
• Ways to support and restore your innate human being skills; learning the language of your biology

I am ready to support you. 

I have come to a place where I want to help others to discover and know their own wholeness and wellness by offering OI coaching sessions.  I am ready to support you to shift into living more easily and spontaneously with the ebb and flow of this creative adventure of being human. 

Enjoy your life.

I offer curiosity, humour, playfulness and compassion, along with authentic reflections to support your own signals of biological readiness and organization to “resync your psychology” (OI term).  My journey with OI has also brought more peace to my experience of being queer along with more appreciation and compassion for all the unique versions of humans in this world.

Based on the west coast of Canada, I gratefully acknowledge that I live, learn and unlearn on the unceded, ancestral and traditional lands of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-waututh) Nations.

Addendum – While on my way to OI....

My path to make more sense out of our experience of being human took me to university to study psychology, sociology, and led to a Bachelor of Applied Science in Communications.   I then began my career in ‘mental health’ with training to support adults.  My focus then shifted to working with young children, as the idea of working to prevent or start to heal some of adverse childhood experiences felt more hopeful. This began my exposure and evolving curiosity to learn more about family systems, attachment theory and somatic approaches.  The roots of my quest to discover ‘human being skills’ to support folks in their everyday, without digging into the wounds or reliving the trauma.

Prior to beginning my training with Organic Intelligence^® in 2020, my journey included certificates, professional trainings and studies in these related areas:

• Relational Trauma Therapy ® (previously Moaiku Trauma Therapy®) - psychomotor therapy / “Resource Oriented Skill Training”
• Somatic Studies including Somatic Experiencing ® (SE)
• Bodynamics ®
• Family systems / therapy
• Attachment theory
• Play therapy principles
• Meditation and mindfulness practices