My main interest is making meditation accessible to everyone. I keep it simple, and I make it fun. I show how meditation is really a way of exploring what it’s like to be human.
It starts with getting present, with coming back to ourselves. We learn the power and profundity of this. Then we go deeper and look at the perspective this offers on our various human foibles. We look at resistance and fixation. We look at stuck emotions and stuck views. We look at how we relate to our thoughts, our bodies, other people, and the world when things are going well — and when they really aren’t.
Along the way there’s guided practice, discussion, and laughter — sometimes at ourselves, sometimes at the random hilarity of existence. The emphasis is on a handful of simple skills — attention, clarity, equanimity, care — and how they can be cultivated both in different kinds of practices, and in the middle of our busy lives. We come back again and again to why practice matters, and how it can help bring about a more creative, just, and caring world.
I teach in many settings, from retreats and conferences to classrooms, apps, and public talks. The form changes. The passion and the orientation do not.
Speaking & Teaching
A lot of workplace stress isn’t mysterious. It’s nervous systems under load, signals bouncing around tight interiors, and not much space to pause and notice what’s actually happening.
In this work, we slow things down enough to see the patterns at play — reactivity, fixation, exhaustion, over-efforting — and to practice a few simple skills that help people respond with more clarity and care. Not by adding another optimization layer, but by learning how to do more with less.
These sessions are practical and adaptable. Sometimes they look like a workshop. Sometimes they look like a shared pause in the middle of a busy day. The point isn’t to fix people. It’s to give them tools they can actually use when things get real.
I’ve done this kind of work with a range of organizations — from small teams to much larger ones — including places like Google, Apple, Visa, Comcast, and Calm. Different cultures, same basic human dynamics.
Corporate & Workplace
"As we get better at noticing where the mind goes, we also get better at deciding if that’s where we want it to stay."
Most of how I support people is through my Home Base community, my in-person retreats, and the work I do through Calm, and Happier, and with Dan Harris. There’s one more option: the 1:1 Practice Accelerator. For keeners, by application-only.
This is for people who already have a meditation practice, or are trying seriously to build one. Sometimes they feel stuck — circling the same questions, running into the same obstacles, unsure how to work skillfully with what’s happening. Other times they feel like they're right at the edge of something exciting and new.
We meet three times over one month, a mix of guided practice and discussion. Between sessions, students are expected to practice on their own, with some direction. At the end, I create a personalized guided practice to help the learning continue.
1:1 Practice Accelerator
Meditation is a practice. To get the benefits, you have to keep doing it. Day in, day out. Sun shines? Meditate. Snow falls? Meditate. Hurricane winds uproot your home, your partner leaves you, you lose your job, you get a new job!, you find love, you stare mortality in the face … meditate!
That’s what Home Base is about. No matter what’s happening in life – the highs, the lows, the long boring plateaus – we come back to practice together.
Drop in any time, leave any time. The rhythm of support is live weekly community hangout, new audio meditations, reflections on different human conundrums, and always the encouragement to practice with friends and spread the sanity around.
If you want support meditating without making a big deal out of it, this is a fun and accessible way in.
Community of Practice
"A handful of skills lie at the headwaters of mental, emotional and spiritual health.
When you know the skills, it’s like you know a secret. You can begin to adjust the controls of experience at any moment."
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