Teaching

I teach internationally at the intersection of Gestalt therapy, creativity, and embodied relational practice. It is my hope that this work contributes to creating a more connected, joyful and loving world.

Teaching Areas

  • Gestalt Therapy
    Field theory, contact, dialogue, experimentation, phenomenology.

  • Embodied Practice
    Somatic awareness, developmental movement, presence, nervous system regulation.

  • Creativity & Performance
    Ritual theatre, clown, expressive arts, improvisation, creative-process.

  • Ritual & Initiation
    Land-reconnection, grief, myth, liminality, community ritual, ancestral relationships.

  • Professional Development
    Teaching Gestalt methodology and somatic practices to therapists

Four people standing with arms raised, facing forward, performing on stage with a white background and shadows of leaves projected behind them.
A group of women dressed in colorful, nature-inspired costumes and floral headpieces, standing outdoors at night, possibly participating in a festive event or celebration.
Two smiling people, a woman with glasses and a striped shirt and a man with wavy hair and a dark button-up shirt, standing indoors in front of shoji screens.

“Everyone still remembers your workshop so vividly. Your work has stayed in my body as well, and as I guided (my students), I felt you and your teachings with me”

Workshop Host, 2026

Available Workshops

  • A painting of a woman lying on the ground with a yellow sun and green grass, surrounded by flowers, with a tree and birds in the background.

    Encountering the Wild

    Many of us live at a distance from nature and the more-than-human world that sustains our lives. As awareness of our relationship with the living earth diminishes, so too can our connection with the instinctive, creative, and untamed dimensions of ourselves. This workshop invites participants into an encounter with the wild, both within and around us. Through embodied awareness, experiential Gestalt practice, and relational practices with the land, we explore what becomes possible when we meet the world as a living presence rather than a backdrop. Together, we awaken to a more holistic way of being a citizen of this planet.

    Encountering The Wild
  • A cartoon illustration of a wolf wearing a top hat, holding a violin and a bow, standing on a rocky shoreline. The wolf appears to be singing or howling with its mouth open. There is a fish with a yellow tail and a pink head in the water, and several fish with similar appearance swimming nearby. The sky has clouds and flying birds, and there are distant mountains in the background.

    The Art of the Experiment

    Gestalt therapy is a living, creative practice that trusts experience as a pathway to awareness and transformation. The experiment is one of its most distinctive expressions.

    The Art of the Experiment explores the experiment as both a clinical practice and an artistic discipline. Through experiential learning, demonstrations, and practice, participants cultivate sensitivity to embodied awareness, relational presence, and the unfolding therapeutic field.

    The Art of the Experiment
  • Two plasma balls with electrical discharges touching, creating a visible spark or lightning effect between them.

    The Living Field: A Gestalt Exploration of Contact and Creativity

    This two-day, in-person workshop invites therapists and coaches into Gestalt practice as a living field of relationship. Together, we explore the foundations of Field Theory through embodied experience, creative experimentation, and direct engagement with one another. Staying close to what is alive in the present moment, we discover how awareness, contact, and relationship become the ground from which therapeutic change emerges.

    The Living Field
  • A medieval religious painting depicting a figure, possibly Jesus, with a beard and long hair, reaching out to an angelic figure with wings, wearing a purple robe. The scene involves water and a large fish.

    The Space Between; Presence, Love, and the Therapeutic Relationship

    Martin Buber wrote that “all real living is meeting.” This two-day workshop explores Love as a quality of presence and its place within the therapeutic relationship.

    This workshop offers an opportunity to explore our own capacity to meet Love as a way of being in relationship with ourselves, others, and the world. Drawing on Buber’s philosophy of I–Thou and the relational foundations of Gestalt therapy, participants will enter an experiential exploration of genuine meeting. Through embodied practices, reflection, and dialogue, we will explore how an I–Thou presence invites deeper connection, healing, and aliveness within the therapeutic encounter.

    The Space Between
  • Dark sky illuminated by falling November meteors, with silhouettes of trees and land at the bottom.

    Befriending the Night

    Befriending the Night is a weekend experiential intensive that supports individuals to engage with mystery through encountering the night. Drawing upon ecopsychological models, including Bill Plotkin’s map of the human psyche, participants will deepen their relationship to themselves, the unknown, and the sacred through exploring dreams, shadow selves, and the wisdom of the natural world.

    Befriending The Night
  • A colorful painting with a blue sky, clouds, hot air balloons, and cherubs flying in the upper part. In the lower part, there are large faces of women with elaborate makeup and costumes, including a skull, a lady with pink cheeks, and other women with decorative headwear and jewelry.

    The Art of Failure: Gestalt, Play, and the Wisdom of the Fool

    The Fool invites us into a different relationship with uncertainty, imperfection, and the unexpected. Drawing from Gestalt therapy, embodied exploration, and the archetype of the Fool, this experiential workshop explores how play, spontaneity, and vulnerability can open new possibilities for contact and creativity.

    Through creative experiments and relational inquiry, we will explore what becomes available when we loosen the need to succeed and discover the wisdom hidden within stumbling, surprise, and not knowing.

    The Art of Failure
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Art on this page:

  • “Figures Dancing by the Fire” by Pieter van Laer, 1635

  • “The Babes in the Wood” by Florence Choate, 1922

  • “French Weasel Playing the Fiddle and Dancing”, by Charles Henry Bennett, 1865

  • “Electric discharges to the surface and edge of a coin” by Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, 1888

  • Two Trees by Emilie Wauters

  • “November Meteors” by Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, 1888

  • “Death and the Masks” by James Ensor, 1897

  • “Persian No. 3” by Owen Jones, 1856