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Ensouling design

There is urgent need for work to extend beyond the usual conventions of professionalism. To weave the fullness of our interior lives into our collective creative acts. How can our work offer portals into compassion and kindness, healing and belonging? I believe we can learn to breathe life, community, belonging, justice, healing, reconciliation, liberation into our creations, together.

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Creating in complexity: a poetic lens

Creating together in complexity is difficult and full of uncertainty. Intellectual understanding doesn't always help us make sense of our…

The passport story

A five-minute video about an organizational prototype, designed to grow relationship between departments. It's an example of playfully…

Essays on human-centered design

As I studied the ideas, approaches and methods of social complexity, I gathered notes and scribbled thoughts. This post lists the results.

Complexity notes and essays

As I studied the ideas, approaches and methods of social complexity, I gathered notes and scribbled thoughts. This post lists the results.

Snippets about play

"Recovering sandbox time" and "Poetry in research and creativity"—two short snippets on play, written for the Catalysts book published by…

I often work through Fit Associates
I teach at SVA Design for Social Innovation

I live in Pittsburgh, PA, US
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