I’ve directly sensed and felt devoted to the luminous Presence of Spirit since I was a kid.

I began studying different spiritual teachings and engaging in spiritual practices at the age of thirteen, and at seventeen a vision confirmed in me a definitive sense that my life was dedicated to Spirit, even though it wasn’t at all clear how that would unfold.

In my adolescence, I became a student of the way of the wound through trauma and illness. This lead me into formal study in indigenous systems of healing and bodywork therapies in my early twenties. I worked as a massage therapist for a number of years, before pursuing post-graduate training in counselling, psychotherapy, and creative arts therapy.

In practice, an integral approach to working with people evolved organically from the way I was combining somatic work, psychoemotional inquiry, and art-making. The coherence of this approach issued from my experience of and reliance on Spirit ~ a simultaneous inflow-outflow that I came to call ‘presence’.

I’ve been practicing therapy in this way since 2008. 

I’ve received visions from a young age, but from the age of thirty the nature of these transmissions intensified, and in 2011, on the day after my thirty-seventh birthday, a traumatizing near-to-death experience catalyzed a more refined attunement to these transmissions and their influence.

I had to stop work while I underwent a transforming reorientation of my being in which my familiar identity was decentered and my essential identity in Spirit was revealed.

I eventually returned to work as a therapist, but the integration of this radical reorientation continued over some years and initiated changes to every aspect of my life.

During those years, I learned that what was occurring for me was continuous with the teachings of the Wisdom Tradition and the disclosures of mystics down through the ages ~ the felt immediacy of the Presence of Spirit opening out into the conscious embodiment of divine love.

Throughout what transpired over this time, I was given to understand the inevitability and necessity of pouring from what was being poured out in me; that my future work would be shaped by what was occurring.

These are the headwaters of the work I do now.

Formal Education

  • Living School at the Centre for Action & Contemplation

  • Master of Arts in Arts Therapy (Honours)

  • Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling (Distinction)

  • Bachelor of Arts (English)

  • Diploma of Complementary Health (certified in Massage Therapy, Aromatherapy, Reflexology & Shiatsu)

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Cynthia Bourgeault’s Influence

In 2012, eight years into the intensification of the spiritual transmissions I was receiving and only a year after the pivotal experience in 2011, I picked up Cynthia Bourgeault’s book The Meaning of Mary Magdalene while browsing in a bookstore.

I immediately recognized the synchronicity of the discovery ~ even at first glance, I registered the resonance between Cynthia’s writing and the spiritual transmissions I’d received. Reading the book in full was the first time I’d ever encountered language that so lucidly described what I experienced in Spirit. I knew I’d found my spiritual teacher.

  • Over the next three years I read Cynthia’s other available work and this reading dovetailed so uncannily, intimately, and elegantly with the spiritual transformation I was undergoing at the time that the potent recognition energy was itself a force in the unfolding. In this way, I experienced Cynthia as a midwife of my transformation even prior to meeting her in person.

    I first met Cynthia attending a five-day Wisdom School she hosted in the spring of 2016, here where I live in Aotearoa New Zealand. Registering the complete continuity between her presence in writing and in person deepened my receptivity to the transmission of her being and teaching, which was luminous and profound. It was the same attending the next Wisdom School she hosted here in the summer of 2018, and during both Schools I received the baraka (blessing) of her recognition of the work I felt called to.

    I’ve continued studying with Cynthia by participating in other Wisdom Schools, engaging with her body of work, and as a student of the Living School hosted by the Centre for Action and Contemplation. I feel a deep, abiding gratitude for Cynthia’s vision and presence, her transmission of the mystical visionary wisdom tradition, and her singular influence in my life as a spiritual teacher.

    Her influence is clearly traceable in what I offer with the emphases on contemplation; the cultivation of presence through three-centred awareness; the conscious work of shifting from the egoic structure of perception to heart perception; and regarding these involvements as active participation in the world’s evolutionary unfolding toward higher consciousness and collectivity.