After a thirty-year artistic and academic quest in New York City, I am returning to my first passion, which is to help people master life’s challenges by tapping into their creativity.
I began as a research psychologist in South Africa, experimenting with methods of improving creativity, followed by my work as a clinical psychologist. I discovered that people transformed when they were encouraged to express themselves creatively.
This realization was reinforced when I worked with AIDS patients in New York for whom personal storytelling was an access to feeling blissfully alive, even as they faced death.
As a documentary filmmaker and performer of my own story on-stage, I experienced firsthand the liberating and healing power of stories. Having met my first lamas in 1996, Tibetan Buddhism is now the guiding principle of my work as a guide and coach.