Work

My work is oriented toward one question: what does it take to be genuinely present — to oneself, to another, to experience as it arises? That question has led me through Buddhist philosophy of mind, somatic psychotherapy, and relational practice, and it continues to organize how I spend my time.

current focus

Contemplative scholarship

I'm working through Bhikkhu Analayo's comparative studies, which hold the Pāli Nikāyas alongside the Chinese Āgamas to identify what likely predates sectarian redaction. This is slow, careful work — and intentionally so. The goal is not synthesis but fidelity: getting closer to what the early teaching actually was, rather than the version any single tradition preserved.

Hakomi training

Hakomi is a body-centered, mindfulness-based approach to psychotherapy developed by Ron Kurtz. It treats the body as an expressive system — not as the site of problems, but as a kind of ongoing commentary on how we've organized ourselves in relation to the world. I'm deepening this practice as both a personal methodology and a professional orientation.

Relational practice

Terry Real's model of the full relational cycle — and his analysis of how grandiosity and shame interrupt it — has given me a language for dynamics I'd long sensed but couldn't name clearly. I'm interested in what it looks like to practice relationship rather than merely survive it.

guiding

I'm moving toward offering individual accompaniment — a form of guiding that draws on Buddhist philosophy of mind, somatic awareness, and relational presence. This isn't therapy, and it isn't a meditation class. It's closer to: sitting with someone as they learn to pay attention to their own experience, and to what happens in relationship.

contact

For inquiries, correspondence, or to be notified when guiding becomes available:

walkthefold@proton.me