I am a certified nature therapy guide, an outdoor chaplain, and a retreat facilitator who invites people into experiences where they can remember their kinship with the natural world, through forest bathing, sacred saunters, and wild church services, and even wild inside terrarium building.

After decades of diverse careers from aerial photographer to instructor at Zoo Atlanta and instructional technology specialist at a grass-roots charter school, I earned an M.Div. from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology, where my studies focused on progressive and liberation theologies. While at Candler, I engaged in a deep study of pastoral counseling, contemplative practices, constructivist pedagogy, and the intersection of faith and justice.

Since 2008, I’ve led hundreds of hours of in-person and online spiritual practices in forests, parks, schools, pubs, Second Life, Livestream.com, Zoom and on Facebook.

I’m currently living in The Netherlands where I moved with my wife seven years ago.

I am:

a certified ANFT nature therapy guide,
the digital landscape coordinator for the ANFT,
ecoSpiritual Leaders course guide at The BTS Center,
certified an outdoor life coach;
a Veriditas trained labyrinth guide;
a nature-partnered spiritual care provider,
and a digital strategist serving heart-centered wellpreneurs.

I’ve also served as…

administrative assistant at American School of The Hague
the digital strategist for The Nature Talks
the director of digital strategy at Agnes Scott College,
the minister of digital community with Extravagance UCC,
an online organizer for The Beatitudes Society,
a chaplain at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta,
one of many founding parents of Neighborhood Charter School in Atlanta,
and a stage manager for over a dozen productions.
The golden thread running through my life’s journey is a persistent calling to find, as Frederick Buechner describes, the place where my deep gladness meets the world’s deep hunger. I hope that this offering will be one in which we can flourish and discern together how best to live into that fiercely tender calling.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To be able to travel more affordably when I am offering nature therapy workshops.

Interests

• dogs
• reading
• hiking
• camping

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

One amazing thing I've done is taking a wild chance to live abroad!

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands, United States