Education
M.A. Integrative Health and Wellbeing Coaching | Graduate minor in Health Equity | University of Minnesota
Capstone Project: Health Coaching Increases Help-seeking Behavior Among Self-reliant Men
B.A. Community and Environmental Sociology | University of Wisconsin | Second major in Environmental Studies
Certifications
National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach | 2021-Present
Restorative Justice Conference Facilitator | University of Minnesota | 2021
Mental Health First Aid | 2019
Community Engagement
Decolonial Repair Network | Current Member
Organizing White Men for Collective Liberation | SURJ | Volunteer and Current Member
Healing Roots Learning Community | 2019-2020
Critical Race Theory Study Group | 2020-2021
Health Students for a Healthy Climate | 2021
Student Advisory Council Member | Center for Spirituality & Healing | 2020 - 2021
Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality and Healing | Events Volunteer | 2019 - 2021
Nature Rx Program | Community Advisor | Fall 2018
Tergar Meditation Community | Volunteer | 2015 - 2018
Native & Medicinal Plant Garden | Lalo Loor Reserve, Ecuador | Summer 2015
Trainings
Stories of the Land: Decolonization and Solidarity-Building Retreat | 2024
Deep Resilience Summit, Institute for Zen Leadership | 2024
Before We Were White: Ancestral Healing and Racial Identity | White Awake | 2024
Power of Presence | Coaches Rising | 2023
Basic Principles of Somatic Experiencing: A Body-Mind Approach to Healing | 2023
10-Steps to Personal Resilience and Empowerment in a Chaotic Climate | Good Grief Network | 2022
Somatics, Social Justice, and Healing Trauma Webinar | Staici Haines | 2022
Dealing With Anxiety Course | Rick Hanson | 2022
The Great Adaptation Conference | Esther Perel | 2021
Embodied Trauma Conference | 2020
Introduction to Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience | Minneapolis Peacebuilding Institute | 2020
Leading from the Emerging Future | Presencing Institute | 2019
Transitioning to a Dynamic Workstation for Whole Body Health | 2019
Power of Awareness Meditation Course | Tara Brach & Jack Kornfield | 2018
Joy of Living Level 1, 2, & 3 Retreats | Tergar Meditation Community | 2016 & 2017
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) | 2013
Favorite Books
Mindfulness
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha | Tara Brach
The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness | Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing | David Treleaven
Trauma & Embodiment
The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice | Staci Haines
In An Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness | Peter Levine
Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma | Bessel van der Kolk
Masculinity
The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love | bell hooks
Healing Justice
The New Saints: From Broken Hearts to spiritual Warriors | Lama Rod Owens
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts | Resmaa Menakem
Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation | Lama Rod Owens & Rev. angel Kyodo Williams
Grief
The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief | Francis Weller
Poetry
To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings | John O’Donohue
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