WORK WITH ME.
I’ve spent the last 20 years exploring what happens when we take the humans doing the work as seriously as the work itself.
My work sits at the intersections of creativity, trauma-informed practice, embodied learning, educational psychology, leadership, and sustainable creative practice. I work with artists, educators, arts organizations, universities, nonprofits, and creative leaders who want to think differently about how people learn, create, collaborate, and work together.
Sometimes that means a workshop. Sometimes it means sitting down with a leadership team over several months and figuring out what their particular organization actually needs.
I’m much more interested in the second question than arriving with a one-size-fits-all answer.
Bring Me Into Your Organization
Workshops & Trainings
I offer customized workshops and trainings on Trauma-Informed Creative Practices, creativity, embodied learning, sustainable creative practice, and related areas of my work.
My workshops are built for the humans who are actually going to be in the room. While I draw from an established body of research, practice, and curriculum, I rarely give exactly the same workshop twice.
That means we'll talk first about your people, your context, and what you're hoping to explore.
Workshops can range from focused sessions to multi-day intensives and can be offered virtually or in person.
Best for: arts organizations, universities, educators, creative teams, nonprofits, conferences, and professional development programs.
Directing, Choreography & Artist Residencies
I’m available for select directing, choreography, and artist residency opportunities with universities, arts organizations, and creative companies.
My artistic practice is interdisciplinary, research-driven, and process-oriented. I develop work around difficult and socially relevant subjects, including mental health, sexual violence, interpersonal relationships, and the ways individual experiences connect to larger cultural and systemic issues.
Much of this work draws from research theatre methods, using research, lived experience, interviews, archival materials, and other source material as starting points for performance. My work often moves between dance, theatre, movement, text, and devised performance rather than sitting neatly within a single discipline.
I can join an existing project or collaborate as a director or choreographer with an organization or university to develop a residency around a particular question, body of research, community, or creative inquiry.
Residencies can include a combination of:
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Directing and/or choreography
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Research-based and devised performance development
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Work with student, professional, or community ensembles
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Workshops, master classes, or classroom visits
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Artist talks and facilitated conversations
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Trauma-Informed Creative Practices
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Public showings, performances, or other culminating events
Because I live and work with dynamic disabilities, travel and residency structures require some advance planning and flexibility. Short-term, hybrid, and nontraditional residency models are welcome, and I’m especially interested in collaborators willing to think creatively about what an artist residency can look like.
Have something in mind? Tell me what you’re imagining, where you are, your approximate timeline, and the budget available for the residency.
Leadership & Organizational Consulting
Sometimes a workshop identifies the questions. Then we need somewhere to work through them.
I work with leadership teams over time to examine organizational practices, creative processes, communication, learning environments, and the conditions under which people are being asked to do their work.
These engagements are conversational and responsive rather than prescriptive. We might use material from Trauma-Informed Creative Practices as a shared starting point and then spend our time figuring out what those ideas actually mean inside your organization.
Engagements can include a combination of leadership working sessions, training, consultation, resource access, and limited individual sessions.
I particularly enjoy this kind of work.
Individual Sessions for Your People
Organizations can also bring me in to work individually with artists, educators, leaders, or other members of their community.
These sessions create room for questions and circumstances that don't always belong in a group training and can be included as part of a larger organizational engagement.
This can also look like embedding individual support within a rehearsal or production process. Organizations can bring me in to work 1:1 with performers, directors, designers, production team members, or other creatives around nervous system regulation, sustainable creative practices, navigating challenging material, preparation and recovery, or whatever is showing up in the room.
Sessions can happen alongside rehearsals or production periods, or you can make a set number of individual sessions available for members of your team to access as needed.
Individual artists can also work with me directly when they want support navigating the relationship between their body, nervous system, and creative practice whether something is coming up in rehearsal, performance, the material they’re working with, or simply in the ongoing work of being a human who makes things.
Institutional Licensing
Want your community to have continued access to the work without requiring another live event?
Select recorded workshops, courses, and resources are available for institutional licensing.
Licenses can be arranged as standalone access or incorporated into a larger training or consulting engagement.
If you aren't sure which resource makes sense for your organization, that's something we can figure out together.
Work With Me Individually
I also maintain a small 1:1 practice.
Depending on what you're looking for, that might include somatic movement education through Simply Soma Method or consulting and mentorship related to creative practice, education, leadership, and developing your own work.
I like 1:1 work. It gives us room to slow down, follow the interesting questions, and work with what's actually happening rather than what was supposed to happen.
Mentorship
Periodically, I offer a three-month small-group mentorship for people who want to engage more deeply with my body of work while applying it to their own.
The mentorship combines small-group conversations, individual time with me, and access to resources from across my existing library.
It is intentionally small and application-based. I care about who's in the room, not just how many seats we can fill.
Not Ready to Hire Me?
You don't have to start with a consulting contract.
There's a substantial collection of my work available online, ranging from free essays, talks, podcasts, and mini-courses to books, recorded workshops, courses, and other resources.
Start wherever you're curious.
Let's Figure Out What You Need
Most organizational engagements begin with an inquiry, followed by a conversation when a conversation would be useful.
When you reach out, tell me a little about who you are, what you're hoping to do, who would be involved, your anticipated timeline, and your available budget. The more context you can give me at the beginning, the easier it is for me to determine what might be possible.
If you're reaching out from a nonprofit or educational institution, I offer sliding-scale pricing for some services. Please include your organization's approximate annual revenue so I can take that into consideration when developing a proposal.
I believe in being transparent about money early. You don't need to know exactly what an engagement should cost before contacting me, and cost doesn't have to prevent you from starting the conversation. If my standard rates are outside your available resources, tell me. We can see whether there's a smaller scope, existing resource, licensing option, or other approach that might work.
At this time, I am not able to offer pro bono engagements or volunteer my professional services.
A Note About Meetings
My calendar is intentionally limited.
I don't offer complimentary 15- or 30-minute consultation calls, introductory coffee chats, or "pick your brain" meetings. Even short meetings require time, preparation, and shifting attention away from other work.
That doesn't mean you need to have everything figured out before reaching out.
Start with an email or inquiry. Give me enough context to understand what you're thinking about and why you think I might be the right person for it. If a conversation is the useful next step, we'll schedule one.
This also helps me protect enough time for research, writing, creating, teaching, client work, and rest—which ultimately makes me better at the work you're considering hiring me to do.
Speaking, Podcasts & Other Invitations
I love a good conversation and particularly enjoy podcasts, interviews, guest lectures, panels, and virtual speaking engagements.
Both virtual and in-person invitations are considered based on my current capacity. Because I live with dynamic disabilities, travel requires additional planning and recovery time, so in-person engagements are necessarily more selective. They are absolutely possible when the project, timing, and resources make sense.
For invitations, please include as much information as you have about the topic, audience, format, date or timeframe, location or platform, expected time commitment, and available honorarium or budget.
Ready to Reach Out?
For potential engagements, it helps to include:
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who you are and your organization, if applicable
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what you're hoping to explore or accomplish
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who would be involved and approximately how many people
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your preferred timeframe
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whether the work would be virtual or in person
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your anticipated budget or budget range
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for nonprofit and educational organizations seeking sliding-scale pricing, approximate annual organizational revenue
You don't need a perfectly formed project. A thoughtful starting point is plenty.