Ideas worth slowing down for.

You Are Here: Learning to Read the Signs Your Longing Is Sending​

An original framework for reading your longing as direction rather than a problem to fix.

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Most of us have felt it: a physiological restlessness, a philosophical ache, a something-more-than-feeling that surfaces and won't quite go away. This talk introduces the Taxonomy of Longing, an original framework for reading the body's interior signals as navigational tools, the same way a walker reads the land.

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Longing isn't a problem to solve. It's information. It's the part of you that has already seen the path and is waiting for the rest of you to catch up. This talk offers a way to listen to it, name it, and let it point you somewhere real.

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Best for: Conferences, wellness and higher-education audiences, and anyone curious about what their longing is trying to say.

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Available in 30, 45, and 60-minute formats​​​

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Something Comes from Something: Making a Life from What We've Lived​

Your losses, pivots, and worn-out seasons are not obstacles to a meaningful life. They are the material.

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This talk makes a quiet and deeply practical case: we always have something to create from. Every fragment carries a trace of what it was. The losses, the pivots, the worn-out seasons are not obstacles to a meaningful life. They are the material.

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Part of what the material teaches is patience, and the value of doing things differently. The life I am making now is slower and more deliberate than the one I once imagined, and that turned out to be the point rather than the compromise. Doing things differently is often what lets us keep doing them at all.

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The premise is simple: you build what comes next out of what you already have, including the parts you would not have chosen. Drawn from years of walking, writing, and making, this talk offers a way of seeing your own fragments as the beginning of something rather than the end.

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Best for: Conferences, wellness retreats, higher education, creative and maker communities, and any room in a season of change.

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Available in 30, 45, and 60-minute formats​​

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