Three currents, one ground

You run a company, fund startups, or you're building the next amazing thing. You also have a community, a nervous system, and a life that doesn't get put on hold when work intensifies. Some of you have done therapy; some have attended retreats and have a deep practice running underneath your personal work. The components are good but don't quite add up. You sometimes feel like you have a collection of techniques rather than a coherent approach.

This work is best suited for people who are learning to stay with contradiction without collapsing it into a story, strategy, or fixed identity. You aspire to work at your edge without bypassing discomfort, developing emotional and energetic fluency in tandem, and prioritizing felt experience over theoretical understanding.

You don't need more functioning. You already function. What's more useful now is investigating the unconscious patterns that influence how you act and react. Energetic fluency.

I spent two decades working in technology and international development for LinkedIn, Microsoft, Pivotal, the United Nations, and a few startups. Some of it was meaningful, and some was the standard professional grind. All of it was happening while I was also practicing in the Vajrayana Buddhist tradition under Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, Lama Pema Dorje Rinpoche, and Tulku Orgyen P'huntsok.

I started sitting in at twenty-one and have been at it for over thirty years, primarily in the Tibetan Buddhist lineages, with direct training connections to senior teachers in those traditions. I completed the traditional three-year retreat, the classical container for intensive Vajrayana practice. For most of my career, the practice ran underneath the work as a private matter, mostly invisible to colleagues.

The question of integration is what became the work. How does a serious practice actually meet the conditions of running a company, raising capital, holding a senior role, or building something while also having a family and a body and a life? Most of what's on offer treats either practice as a productivity hack, or worldly life as an obstacle to the practice. Neither is right. They're the same investigation, conducted on different surfaces. Inviting contradictory experiencing.

I founded The Field in 2016 to teach the practice itself: Tummo, Dzogchen, and the methods I've been working with for decades, along with strategies taught by my mentor Bruce Tift, a psychotherapist with forty years of clinical practice. Coaching is the other side — working with people whose lives operate in practical conditions, and integrating the practice with the work, the relationships, and the structural transitions they're navigating.

Sessions don't run on a fixed agenda. You bring what's alive, I do my best to be a location of awareness and reflect back what seems most accurate. Some sessions are quiet investigation; some are practice instruction; some are working through a specific decision or relationship.

Sessions are 75 minutes on Zoom. I offer two monthly subscription tiers that begin with a six-month initial commitment and transition to month-to-month after that.

Between sessions I am available via email, voice notes, or occasional texts for things that can't wait. I respond within 24 hours on weekdays.

Cancellation, late arrival, and no-show policies live in the client agreement.

Write to me with a paragraph about your practice and what you're looking for. If it feels like a fit, we'll set up a call.