Please share something about yourself, your work, and what draws you to the ALIA community.
I teach in the Whole Systems Design MA program. Exploring ways to "bootstrap" ourselves out of the disconnected, dualistic worldview has led me to a particular interest in the way language creates and maintains worldviews-- and thus can be a vector for change...how somatic awareness can bring us in deeper touch with ourselves AND the Whole-- i.e. interiority and exteriority. My work has been influenced by both contemporary systemic thinkers and Mary Parker Follett .... along the way I have been a mediator, see approaches to mediation as a terrific window into cutlure and values. Currently I'm considering aesthetics as an expression of wholeness. I find those associated with ALIA exploring many of the questions that interest me most