As a Certified Organic Intelligence Coach I offer coaching for folks who are looking for personal growth or are feeling their life isn’t as nourishing as they’d like. It may be experienced as scattered, disjointed, lost, or just blah.  OI Coaching offers a method to accessing the congruency of the beauty of our own lives and the lives around us.

Currently, I offer 50-60 minute Organic Intelligence coaching sessions.  I prefer to find a comfortable place to end the session in that window.  While OI is my primary method there are other influences I may bring into our sessions together.  To read more about my adjunct influences click here.

I offer virtual sessions from the comfort of your home.  A stable internet connection, stable web camera, and private space will be necessary to see the most benefit from our time together. I also offer outdoor in-person sessions for those in the Seattle, WA area.

To read more about what a session is like please go to the OI Coaching page here.

As I am not a physical or mental health care provider I do not diagnose, treat, heal, or cure any diseases or mental health diagnoses.  For more information on working with me as adjunct support for current diagnoses please see the OI Coaching page.

I currently only work with adults in one-on-one sessions.  I have a particular focus on Nature Connection and Chronic Illness communities but my work is not limited to them.

There are no geographical limitations to whom I can work with virtually but outdoor sessions are limited to Seattle, WA area.

Organic Intelligence (OI) is both complex and simple at the same time.  It acknowledges and works with our living system’s ability to self-organize and grow in the right conditions.

On one hand OI is rooted in complex systems theory which has tons of accurate scientific words to describe how we as humans have a physiology that at times will resist change because it feels dangerous – even if consciously we desire and want change. Explanations on how we find ourselves in ruts and patterns that from the outside don’t look like they are super supportive of ourselves from but form within ourselves basically feel safe and everything else is dangerous.

OI gives us a framework for working from within the cocoon of protection in a way that doesn’t scream danger to our physiology and actually not only allows change to happen but promotes it. There are some great science words around how this process happens. And at the same time OI works in a gentle non-confrontational way. There is no need to go head-to-head in a jousting match with any part of ourselves that convinced us the world or change is dangerous.

On another hand OI works within the part of our being that is rooted in friends, communities, family, nature, ancestors, etc. Whatever support arises in an OI session is used, caught, and offered to the client. Where in the moment of offering the client can choose to pickup the support or pass. If a client passes I as the OI Coach will hold onto that support in case the client finds it useful later.

What I love about Organic Intelligence (OI) is how much it dovetails it the other work I’ve learned about and value.

For a more detailed explanation please see this page on the official Organic Intelligence website.

The name Emberside Weaving reflects how I engage with my work with my clients and myself. It embodies an underlying ethos that has developed over the course of my life.

Why Emberside?

Some of the most rich and nourishing moments of my life have happened around embers. Long moments of silently watching dancing coals until someone shares… something. There is something deeply inviting about sitting around a fire that has died down to embers amongst a darkened and chilled sky dotted with bright stars or the inky forest. The retreating fire allowing the darkness to surround us but still keeping a warmth and light of safety on our faces and the faces across the fire… an anchor. Something that seems to invite us deeper into our connections that we have or long to have with ourselves, humans, non-humans, and even our ancestors.

Why Weaving?

In my years on this planet I have been drawn to so many communities and people.  So many times though I have felt that while utterly welcome there is always a part of me that longs for another community at the same time. Like there are all these threads in myself and in my life that are lit up strongly by certain people and certain communities.  I found myself often not presenting certain threads in certain groups — not maliciously but simply because they didn’t feel resonate or understood in the moment.  However, I’ve come to realize how important each of those threads in myself are and how I am an important thread in each of those communities. And each of those communities is an important thread in the world.

To weave next to the embers for me is about bringing those disparate threads into a tapestry in ourselves, communities, and the world.  The more we are woven and intertwined fully the more we are ourselves and can be of service to the world and whole/loving in ourselves. Frankly, having all my own threads in all communities is just plain more comfortable. And something I am still weaving in myself.

I invite you to join me to weave ourselves next to the embers and under the stars. Together.

I charge at the time of service with your card on file with no pre-payment or down payment necessary.  Please see the cancellation policy if you are unable to attend as there may be a no-show/late cancellation fee.

Preferred appointment times are Tuesday evenings Pacific Time but this may be negotiable.

If you are a new or interested potential client please use the form below to contact me.  If you are an established client please login to the Carepatron portal to send a secure message.

I check email and respond on Tuesday evenings at this time.