Draft Bio

Hello, I am Rebecca.  I have been working in areas of strategic change for more than 15 years. However, it is only in the last 5 that I have made a shift toward including the body, the holistic self and person in embodied learning. This moves me into the places I really care about – and it allows me to work with others creatively while being grounded in traditions of neuroscience, human learning, somatics, psychology, and organizational change. We all seek integration, and possibilities open as we operate more from our center and who we are.

I have a PhD in Energy and Resources from U.C. Berkeley. I am also a certified professional coach from New Ventures West in San Francisco. I also serve as adjunct faculty in the Professional Coaching Course (PCC) at New Ventures West.

I am a vast Midwesterner, and I love facilitating from the inside->out.

I am deeply connected to the neuroscience of the brain and how it is connected to other knowledge and practice-based traditions showing how we relate and make our way as human beings. I enjoy working with people in companies in a leadership and executive coaching capacity, and in personal coaching as well.  I enjoy facilitating others to find the right coaching topic or purpose for focus and discovery, meeting people where they are, and meeting people in all of what is there. Something changes when allow ourselves to be and interact, in this way.

My first career was in energy and international development.  I was a social scientist and ethnographer of technical institutions. I worked in social research in Africa.  I was also a scenarist and visioned how low carbon energy futures could emerge. I worked with private institutions, consulting companies, government agencies, universities, and non-profits.

I opened myself to a stillness (both chosen and unchosen) in my life that took over and moved me disjuncturally, toward a pathway of working somatically. I continue to engage the intellect, but put it in service of something. This includes the heart, but is also something is authentic in our body;  its reach is vast but also generative. Dare I say a mystery.

My coaching is about learning.  Learning in our real lives and our personal-professional roles is exciting, but it is also messy. I have a deep alignment and respect for people in these times. I devote my time, skill, and practice to these spaces. I open and invite you to share that space, to own it and make it yours.

Change is personal, but principles move through it. I currently live in Boulder, Colorado area with my husband and my 6yo daughter, and I love spending time with them.    I look forward to meeting you!