A few years ago I quite my job in search for a life more inligned with my values. So I found myself in Israel/Palestine where I became a mediator and conflict transformation facilitator. I lived and co-lead a peace /eco centre in the West Bank for a few years.

I'm now transitioning out of the Middle East, healing from the wounds I gathered over there - still the best decision I made in my life was to leave a boring corporate job. I know can say that I live each day as I want.

I love using expressive arts although I don't consider myself an artist. The clown is my favourite tool. I am opsessed with systems thinking and how to create more life enriching models in our societies, from community to businesses.

Empathy is my big passion, to learn about it, spread it, understand it and rediscover how it exists in all aspects of life from minutes to cosmos.

I love humans. Complex and crazy creatures.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

When I lived in London I offered my many houses on coachsurfing and love to meet new people and I'm a very good host. Not sure why coachsurfing has removed my previous profile.... I was pretty inactive for the last years while in the Middle East.

I prefer to travel with a homely base and connection is of great importance to my wellbeing.

I'm a big believer in community and supporting each other,

Interests

5 rhythms, yoga, acro-yoga, meditation, psychology, science, art, clowning, therapy,

My life brings me to so much.... I love so many things and explore in variety of settings. Mainly I love vulnerability and that yumminess when we allow the heart and soul to open when in an experience.

• arts
• yoga
• meditation
• psychology
• science
• nature
• dance
• alternative medicine
• community building
• herbal medicine
• nonviolent communication
• ecstatic dance
• movement
• mediation
• 5rhythms
• systems thinking
• sociocracy
• movement medicine
• joanna macy

Music, Movies, and Books

Books/authors - 1984, Huxley, Paolo Coehlo, Simone deBeouvoir, Siddartha, Hitch Hikers guide to the galaxy, the kite Runner and a thousand splendid suns, memoirs of a geisha....Nietzsche, Aristotle, Irvim Yalom, Freud and a bunch of Psychology stuff! Dr Seuess, the Little prince and Alice in wonderland are by far my favourite books!

Music - way too much to start a list... I love the idea of connecting through music. Some Favourite Genres are: afrobeats, balkan beats, dub, glitch, electroswing, bluegrass, irish folk, klezmer, reggae, psytrance and anything proper psychedelic(shpongle!)

The Dictator - Charlie Chaplin version (of course), Monty python (mostly life of Brian), Brave New World, Amelie and anything by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, many more French, most Almadovar, often anything by woody Allen ( not always)...The New world!

Teach, Learn, Share

Kintsukuroi (金繕い?) (Japanese: golden repair) is the Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with a lacquer resin sprinkled with powdered gold. Understanding that the piece is more beautiful for having been broken

The word "existence" comes from the Latin word existere meaning "to appear", "to arise", "to become", or "to be", but literally, it means "to stand out"