Systems Beings Lab (SBL) is a collaborative research collective to facilitate and elevate various approaches that explores complexity. We bring process-oriented approaches to foster non-linear dynamics of un/learning, and allow space and time to experience the messiness of paradoxes, contradictions, and multiples perspectives. The SBL collaborates with international partners, conducts research, engages with external stakeholders, and hosts events (workshops, speakers, symposia, etc.). Most of all, we foster co-creative spaces to explore possibilities and opportunities within and beyond academia.

We help organizations with educational design on sustainability. In addition to design and consulting, we give workshops and talks on many topics, including climate storytelling, sustainability, climate anxiety, and holistic thinking. D|N focuses on process-oriented approaches to co-create the conditions that can lead to holistic change in schools, workspaces, and organizations.

In addition to my teaching and research as an education professor at the University of British Columbia, as well as my writing projects, I work with people through a process of Narrative Coaching, often involving career and relationships but not limited to these, as well as through Writing Coaching focused on writing planning, support, and guidance on prose or speaking.Drawing on learning tools such as emotional intelligence, intuition, and creativity, Narrative Coaching is a process that allows people to transform their personal stories around career or relationships. Using a process called REWRITE (see my book Rewriting Our Stories), a narrative coaching session could achieve any of the the following areas (and more!): (a) explore what you want and need in your career, money, relationships, health, or personal growth; (b) identify how you feel about the current stories and belief systems governing your life; (c) unravel and then resolve issues blocking your new stories, such as socialized belief systems, your mind, competing stories, or fear and anxiety. People can work with me in two ways: 1) Narrative Coach: helping people rewrite individual and collective stories in their careers and relationships. 2) Writing Coach: providing guidance to writers and speakers in crafting narratives and planning projects. I offer both services through personalized sessions or online courses (see the Teaching section of this website). I also do workshops for smaller groups in educational or business contexts.