Culturesmith

A servant to the idea that culture is, at least in part, consciously created.

Frederick Buechner wrote,
"Your vocation is the place where your heart's deep gladness
and the world's deep hunger meet."

The joy and purpose of being a culturesmith is to support and be supported by others to give the title away. It is my desire and vocation to participate in the making of environments the purpose of which is learning and the practice of building community. In the same way that a given group of people are the only experts available in the field of creating their own way into the future, culturesmiths facilitate learning and the critique of facilitation such that the paradoxical culture of learning and practice that results is what living people need now and also what will endure. This is the heart of education, of civilization, and of martial nonviolence - the redefinition of peace as conflict done well.