Design Strategy for Conscious Cultural Evolution
Story
I’m originally from Richmond, Virginia, but I spent the last eight years in Hawai’i—mostly on O’ahu—learning from elders, cultural practitioners, and incredible contemporary kanaka innovators, scholars, and activists. That time really shaped me, deepening my understanding of culture, healing, and what it means to live in a spiritual way that’s rooted in place and community.
Professionally, I’ve worn a lot of hats—visual and spatial design, brand development, retail, events, programming, communications, and web. At my core, I’m a facilitator, a synthesizer of ideas, a builder of structure and vision. I’m all about depth over growth, imaginative possibility, and radical collaboration.
Spiritually, I’ve trained in various healing modalities and traditional lineages, grounding myself in meditation, prayer, protocol, divination, and intuitive living. My spiritual leaning has been lifelong, but was amplified by a near-death traumatic brain injury my senior year of college, initiating a path of purpose and spiritual activation. My connection to source is central to my life.
I’m always exploring—consciousness, society, identity, curation, consumerism, and traditional ways of knowing are some central topics. My self-designed undergraduate degree looked at the mutual relationship between cultures and their artists - how they shape and inform each other. This was the trailhead of the meandering red-thread that has led me into the field of conscious culture creation. I find so much joy in research, creative and cultural practice, immersion and exchange, and meaningful time spent with others and in nature - barefoot, hands dirty, sun-soaked.
At the heart of it all, I’m here to share what I’ve learned, advocate for the sacred, and to be in service to experiencing and creating healing pathways and platforms for joyous, liberated creation and expression.
Professionally, I’ve worn a lot of hats—visual and spatial design, brand development, retail, events, programming, communications, and web. At my core, I’m a facilitator, a synthesizer of ideas, a builder of structure and vision. I’m all about depth over growth, imaginative possibility, and radical collaboration.
Spiritually, I’ve trained in various healing modalities and traditional lineages, grounding myself in meditation, prayer, protocol, divination, and intuitive living. My spiritual leaning has been lifelong, but was amplified by a near-death traumatic brain injury my senior year of college, initiating a path of purpose and spiritual activation. My connection to source is central to my life.
I’m always exploring—consciousness, society, identity, curation, consumerism, and traditional ways of knowing are some central topics. My self-designed undergraduate degree looked at the mutual relationship between cultures and their artists - how they shape and inform each other. This was the trailhead of the meandering red-thread that has led me into the field of conscious culture creation. I find so much joy in research, creative and cultural practice, immersion and exchange, and meaningful time spent with others and in nature - barefoot, hands dirty, sun-soaked.
At the heart of it all, I’m here to share what I’ve learned, advocate for the sacred, and to be in service to experiencing and creating healing pathways and platforms for joyous, liberated creation and expression.
This [over] That
Excellence / Perfection
Round Tables / Stages
Expansion / Growth
Lifeways / Lifestyles
Immediacy / Urgency
Distinction / Exceptionalism
Round Tables / Stages
Expansion / Growth
Lifeways / Lifestyles
Immediacy / Urgency
Distinction / Exceptionalism
worldview: “integrative”
Integrative worldviews see the universe as an evolving, spiritually meaningful whole, and they find truth and knowledge through an integration of methods and paradigms, science and spirituality. They emphasize the need for personal growth and see cultural ‘evolution’ as solution to our global challenges. They are driven by values like self-actualization, the search for truth and wisdom, and global peace and compassion. They see nature as intrinsically valuable and spiritually significant; a partner to collaborate with. The great strength of this worldview is its commitment to integrate what’s fragmented and polarised.
- via Worldview Journeys
- via Worldview Journeys