I teach somatic practices and embodying Nonviolent Communication through the mediums of food, community, art, education, and activism. I am a certified international trainer of Nonviolent Communication have co-led workshops around the world in schools, prisons, intentional communities, and businesses, and offer mediation for families, parents, and children, siblings, and couples.

As a master chef, having previously partnered in/owned four restaurants and published two cookbooks. I’ve been teaching my original curriculum Connective Culinary Arts, to young people and adults for over twenty years. This curriculum integrates history, ethics, food politics, science, chemistry, and nutrition through food and the art of cooking.

The premise of my teaching celebrates the notion that food is the connective tissue for all life on the planet, and that the strategies humans employ to answer to our hunger–three times a day!– is pivotal in the healing of the planet and living in harmony with all species. My focus is on the reclamation and celebration of our empathic faculties with the life on our plate that feeds the life that we live.

I am a singer-songwriter I love to teach voice and guitar as a profound medium for “finding our voice” to shape the world we wish to live in.  With David, we raised our children in an intentional community that they co-founded with 8 other families and where consensus decision-making has been practiced since 1990.