Reality Creation. Mar is the principle and founder of Guildworks, Architecture of the Air. An award-winning design-build firm specializing in innovative, permanent tension fabric structures. Mar can design a beautiful Lotus Temple for the community. We're planting this flower in Humboldt County. You'll love it. - The tensile fabrics Mar designs wit…

Daria is the manager for the Center for Home Gardening at the Missouri Botanical Garden, one of the top ten Botanical Gardens in the country. It's beautiful. We get to walk through many of the features, displays, and systems of the garden and get the inside scoop. - Botanical Gardens play a huge role in research, discovery, and conversation for the…

Fabian is the founder of Cobiom, a collection of 'doers' harnessing collective intelligence to 10x impact for startups, drawing from bio-inspired innovation, circular economy, GreenTech, blue and regenerative business, systems design, and impact finance. He was also the Director of Biomimicry Academy for a number of years, an educational platform w…

The Fires Are Burning But it's okay the middle schoolers are on it. Lex is the Communications Director for the Biomimicry Institute an educational center whose mission is Empowering People to Create Nature-Inspired Solutions for a Healthy Planet. - When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. That includes your relatio…

Frontier Uncharted territory. Jamie is the founder and director of Biomimicry Frontiers, an award-winning design who's mission is to 'Make It Better.' Naturally. He trained with Janine Benyus who coined the term Biomimicry back-when. He's also working at B+H Architecture firm as Director of Biomimicry to help them to think and create within a Biomi…

Biomimicry To Mimic Life. Lily holds a Master's in Biomimicry from Arizona State University, one of the leading and few colleges in the country teaching Biomimicry at that level. Currently she's teaching at Pratt Institute a course called Biology for Biomimicry. A course for design students, helping them to translate nature into applicable designs.…

Weaving That Narrative For more on that narrative, Julian has a podcast you should check it out. Grateful for you @julianguderley Wish it could be longer. You can find Julian's work here: https://www.greenplanet-blueplanet.com/By Soul Earth

Permaculture It really means 'permanent culture.' The permanent cultivation of our human territory. Because, ultimately, we achieve permanent health as humans and landscapes through designing our ecosystems to meet our needs and wants. Learn something new everyday. Hannah's the Co-founder of the Abundant Earth Foundation (one of our fiscal sponsors…

They Say A Quality of The Best Leaders Is the ability to take the complexity of something and communicate it in a way that is simple, organized, and actionable. Simple does it. Anton is the founder of House of Transformation and Rebuild - a networking, event, education, and community building platform that focuses on eco-villages and all of the var…

Kelly's the founder of New Earth Now, a regenerative development company that supports the creation of eco-villages, regenerative smart cities, and retreat centers. She's definitely tapped into a frequency that is, in and of itself, part of the solution. - What I Loved: - A world without money, and a resource-based economy is possible, in the far o…

Ken's a futurist, with a systems lens. Someone's who's trained to think, plan, and implement for the future. As such he's deeply connected to the people in Humboldt who do just that. In terms of development, energy, agriculture, tourism, and the economy as a whole. He's invited myself as well as a number of others from here and the surrounding coun…

12 It's a magic number. Associated with the heaven's, the months and the zodiac, the lunations in a year (blue moons aside), the petals of a lotus building, and Oliva. - So the Alchemy Center is a collection of professional creatives working together to bring inspiring projects to life through a collaborative design process that harnesses everyone'…

They Say The Heart Is the 'Seat of the Soul'. The interface between who we really are and our physical body. It is the inspiration for this page, and Soul Garden. Rollin's researched this for over thirty years, with people like Dr. Joe Dispenza. They're friends, they research together. We'll be collaborating in the future. Having both of those orga…

I Googled 'Embodied Potential' And found Maud. She coaches executives and leaders in France and the EU, with a focus on whole person transformation and organizational shifts with embodiment. She's great. - Key points: Embodied state exercise for effective, compassionate confrontation and accountability. Aikido: The Way of Harmony. While a martial a…

Justin is the co-founder of the Flow Consciousness Institute, researcher and teacher, and all around awesome human. Highly Recommend. - Key Points: Intuition processes 65 billion bits of data per second. On the other hand our rational mind processes between 200,000 to 1 million bits of data per second. The height that you can go is proportional to …

Key Points: Cultivating precision of effort: maximal efficiency, minimal effort. Timing. Allowing present moment awareness to guide us to what wants to come through us on that day. Almost sounds like the surrender experiment. Entelechy: An innate wisdom or knowing. Also: The realization of potential. Also: The soul. The more you explore 'inner spac…

Key Points: Telos: Your highest value, north star, and guiding light - which all other values feed into and support. Our values, shaped in childhood through 'voids and violations', pave the way for our purpose in this life. Living out of alignment with your values will cause physical, psychological, relational, and emotional 'feedback'. All signals…

I Love Talking To Doctors They understand certain things really well. It's their job. And Carrie's a great example. Trained in Somatic Experiencing, Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy, and NARM (NeuroAffective Relational Model). And a wealth of other modalities. . Key Points: How trauma disconnects us from our 'inherent lifeness' - our potential to ac…

As The Man Who Brought Joseph Campbell Into My Life We kicked off the conversation with this quote: "We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group, but with his planet." Timely. - Key Points: Language and words are so powerful that they reprogram our epigenetics and nervous systems. With that in mind, think about weaving …

The Medicinal Cannabis Queen I like that. Also, I don't smoke (or drink), but I absolutely understand the medicinal and healing benefits for many. - Key Points: You can never learn too much Cannabis juicing can be used to treat many things. It's like a superfood. I'll try it sometime. Quantum alignment, that peak state we're all searching for, is a…

We Dive Deep In This One This man co-founded the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY (with humble beginnings) and now resides at his retreat center @bluespiritcostarica Naturally, I'm curious about him. He did it. A rich history, and a unique story. We touched the vision a bit. The takeaway? Stay true to your essence throughout the process. Stay true …

I Want To Make A Really Strong Point "Imagination may be the most essential, uniquely human capacity - creating both the dead - end crises of our time and the doorway through them." ~ Bill Plotkin "Imagination is more important than knowledge...it embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is the preview for life…

We Didn't Solve The World's Problems But we had fun talking through some of them. In the words of Marianne Williamson "Bryan is a warrior for love, in every sense of the word." That's an honor. And honestly? I just like the term. . According to Bryan there's no evidence that great relationships heal the world. I still think they do. After all, "we'…