Writer, Speaker, Researcher | Companioning For Profound Transitions | Lucid Longing
For the last six years, I have helped hundreds of clients in 20 countries who have recognized our reality and asked,
¨What is possible now?"
They:
◾felt disillusionment and despair
◾longed to face the future without getting lost in grief, anger, fear, or disengagement
◾crafted a caring, collaborative, and enlivening way forward for the people and places they love
Unprecedented climate disruptions. Economic and social inequities.
Political polarization. Ongoing uncertainty.
This is what we are living through now.
And it can feel crushing.
But it also opens us to imagining and cultivating what is possible in our own lives, and in our communities.
THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF LONGING
I developed a 30-day companioning process specifically designed to help those who recognize the ruptures in the old patterns and practices and long for a new way of living.
Together, we turn despair about what is ending into clarity, creative energy, and adaptive capacity for what is emerging.
We tap into our own sense of longing, and let it lead the way.
I call it Lucid Longing.
COMPANIONING THOSE READY TO FEEL INSPIRED BY WHAT´S (STILL) POSSIBLE
This reorientation work is designed for those who long to:
- cultivate attention instead of reacting or disengaging
- create the habits and habitats that align with their values
- commit to engaging more fully in their local community
- craft adaptive capacity that is robust and improvisational
TRUSTED COMPANIONING THROUGH COMPLEXITY
What does companioning look and feel like?
One client, Lena, described it as ¨like having a series of epiphanies while walking with a friend...every day for a whole month. :-)¨
But you don´t have to take her word for it.
ONGOING RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTAL APPLICATIONS OF LUCID LONGING
Lucid Longing lives in the spaces between:
♦ collapse awareness.......................and action
♦ ecological grief.................................and awe
♦ environmental psychology......and attention
♦ contemplative practices............and art
♦ behavioral science..........................and agency
♦ systems thinking.............................and adaptation
♦ imaginative futures.......................and audacity
By lacing together the related learnings, we can understand what our human experience of adaptation requires.
Learn more about my research on my /Now page.
WRITING AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
In addition to my research and work with clients, I share my insights via print interviews, podcasts, and speaking engagements.
FROM MINDFULNESS TO ATTENTION: THE EVOLUTION OF MY WORK
Me meditating in a Buddhist monastery in Sri Lanka, 1982.
For decades, mindfulness has taught me how to pay attention to what is here now.
My work is increasingly exploring what happens when we become curious about what else deserves our attention:
♦ what matters now
♦ what we long for
♦ what we might imagine
♦ what becomes possible when we follow those threads
I´m starting a new version of my Substack newsletter called Lucid Longing.
It´s about exploring the transformative power of longing to help us clarify and cultivate our budding futures.
Part field notes and part storytelling, this is where I share the questions and findings in my research and stories from clients about how they are choosing to engage more fully and joyfully in their lives.