Meet Jacob, B. Ed. Experiential Education

Life coaching is a calling for me.

My coaching approach is based in experiential education: providing a space and process by which you can better know and trust all parts of yourself. To facilitate this, I draw on my years of experience and training in coaching, dreamwork, recovery, men’s work, experiential learning, wilderness-based growth and hospice care.

Life coaching is also natural extension of my career as a writer, author and playwright.

During 25-years as a science writer, I’ve uncovered the underlying patterns and connections that make sense of complex topics. (And I’ve never met a topic as complex and wonderful as a single human being.) As a coach, I do much the same:

I ask questions that help you move from a confusing and often painful jumble of facts and experience to making connections and seeing and feeling the deep stories that drive you. It’s in acting on this new awareness that clients find new energy and direction.

Through hundreds of interviews, I’ve learned the power of deep listening, asking key open-ended questions and sitting comfortably with silences—leaving time and space to greet the things that are more difficult to speak.

As a playwright, I’ve been in a two-decade long creative dialogue with my unconscious. For me, a play is something that emerges through me: I am the proverbial reed through which the cosmic wind blows. This has meant sitting with the little inner critic voice that screams You can’t say that!, taking a breath and continuing.

I’m enthusiastic about helping you move through resistances of all kinds to embrace the life energy that’s emerging in you.

Since 2000, I’ve crafted my own career as a self-employed writer. I’m excited about helping others heed their inner voice, navigate change and discover, launch and build their creative, career and entrepreneurial paths.

As a husband for thirty plus years and father of two twenty something children, I know that intimate relationships are the source of life’s greatest struggles, disappointments and joys.

I believe that relationships are the crucible for forging our fullest selves.

Finally, I bring the patience, compassion and honesty gained through facing my own shame and fear in the decades-long process of porn addiction recovery. I know that when your world falls apart, particularly as a child, you grab anything that provides momentary comfort—even though it later becomes a trap.

I offer a space in which you can stop hiding and start living the life of integrity you want.