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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Program Developer & Group Facilitator, 11/2016 to Present
Fire & Moss Embodiment, Bellingham, WA

Design, develop, and facilitate movement and dance labs, grief circles, storytelling events and summer camps. Lead regular labs at local movement studios and in outdoor locations for groups ranging in size from 10-70 students.

Embodied Movement, Dance, & Storytelling | Production Manager:

• ABRA CA DABRA (fall 2025)

  • Organize and facilitate 5-week story catching and crafting workshop to develop participants skills in shaping and sharing a personal story. Content included: body & voice warm ups, listening & sharing practices, practice standing in front of a group, an exploration of containers and thresholds, polarities and posture, voice and tempo, repetition and intention, and the crafting of a 5-7 minute personal story.

• Winter Wellspring (2/2023, 1/2024, 1/2025, 1/2026 and upcoming 1/2027))

  • Co-created interdisciplinary 4-day residential Open Floor workshop to enhance community connection through dance, art, song, storytelling, ritual, and nature connection.

  • Arranged venue and managed all communications, designed and distributed marketing materials, co-managed support crew and developed and prepared workshop menu.

• The Holy Actor (5/2024 and upcoming 6/2026)

  • Production manager for Andrew Holmes, an internationally recognized 5Rhythms Teacher

  • Arranged and set-up venue, handled registration and communications with participants, designed and distributed marketing materials, organized group dinner, managed support crew and all logistics throughout event.

• Set the Dam Waters Free (10/23 & 12/23)

  • Collaborated with local artists to develop multi-sensory community storytelling fundraiser event.

  • Creator of original story.

  • Created content and order of events, designed and distributed marketing materials, arranged venue, helped set-up/take-down event.

Embodied Movement & Storytelling | Facilitate/co-facilitate Open Floor movement workshops and labs.

Tasks include facilitating, cultivating musical soundscapes, arranging venue, communicating with participants, marketing, managing crew, event set-up/take-down.

• Workshops:

  • Between You and Me (11/2025), facilitator and event organizer

  • Winter Wellspring (2/2023, 1/2024, and upcoming 1/2025), co-faciltator and event organizer

  • The Space Between Us, co-facilitator (7/2022)

  • Community of Selves(9/2019), assistant to Open Floor co-founder, Andrea Juhan

  • We Were Laughing, facilitator and event organizer(4/2019)

  • Write of Passage(3/2019), assistant to Open Floor co-founder, Lori Salzman

• Ongoing Movement Labs including, but not limited to:

  • Winter Wellspring; Closer, An exploration of intimacy, story, and play; Together, an exploration of relationship; Refugia, an exploration of embodied emotion, grief, and relationship; The Art of Messing Up; We Were Laughing; Reset, A Moving Meditation Cycle; and In Her Hands, Writing Women’s Stories through the Body.

Medicine For Our Times | Create well-held containers for participants to deepen their relationship to grief and mourn in community.

Tasks include facilitating, cultivating musical soundscapes, arranging venue, communicating with participants, marketing, managing crew, event set-up/take-down.

• Grief Literacy & Embodied Grief Circles (2022—Present): Introductory circles expanding grief vocabulary and literacy, sharing and exploring embodied grief practices.

• Grief Intensives: Deepening into the World of Sorrow (spring 2024), Wild Kin (8/2024), & Grieving Ground (fall & winter 2024, fall and winter 2025): In a ritual container, practice naming and breathing into grief that is present and giving expression to grief through movement, song and art.

The Play Project Summer Camp—A Space for Kids to Be Kids | 8-week multi-sensory program including connective games, play, nature exploration, art, and story.

Tasks include developing camp programs, hiring, training and managing staff, communicating with parents, handling registrations, organizing camper and staff schedules, marketing, assessing risk and safety protocols and management.

• Adventures in Art, Adventures in Play, Adventures in Hiking (summer 2021, 2022, & 2024)