I’m an educator, rites-of-passage guide, and practitioner trained in council work, tracking and awareness practices, and embodied discipline. My work is rooted in relationship with land and in the belief that human maturity is shaped through attention, responsibility, and lived experience—not theory alone.

I founded Wildness Within because the natural world has been my most consistent teacher through beauty and difficulty, humility and consequence. What I carry forward comes from long exposure rather than abstraction—years of showing up, paying attention, and being corrected by reality.

For more than fifteen years, I started young horses and worked with animals often labeled “problematic.” That work taught me about trust, presence, timing, and clear leadership—lessons that only come when force fails. I’ve spent years hunting, fishing, and living close to the land, from the backcountry of Appalachia and Patagonia to the high country of the Sierra Nevada. My teachers have included people, but also animals, plants, waters, weather, and the quiet intelligence of place.

Horses taught me how to listen. Plants taught me restraint and reciprocity. Rivers taught me how to move with change and release what no longer served me.

Through these relationships, I came to understand how attunement shapes character.

In addition to my public work through Walker School of the Wild and The Wild Lab, I work one-to-one with a small number of men in a private capacity.

This private work is grounded in discipline, attention, physical grounding, and honest conversation. It is not therapy, coaching, or a Walker School program. It is a discreet, application-only container for men navigating pressure, transition, or internal restlessness.

Engagement is selective and by application.