Some more about me
I admit, I’m a sucker for patterns. Ever since I can remember, patterns presented themselves everywhere I looked. I found predictable rhythms all around us—humans included. My need to make sense of people, the world, and the universe made me an insatiable learner.
For my PhD, I chose epidemiology that allowed me to translate qualitative observations into quantitative, statistical data on my clients’ behavioural patterns. Curious, irrational, yet uncannily predictable.
But epidemiology and science couldn’t answer all my questions. So I dabbled in psychology, quantum theory, medicine, string theory, fractals, education, economic models, business, anthropology, philosophy, spirituality, energy healing, and every other scientific and metaphysical area that held the promise of expanding my understanding of life.
Recurring patterns were everywhere, crossing lines between animate and inanimate, physical and psychological, scientific and spiritual. I have learned that even chaos exhibits patterns, and an elaborate physical and ethereal tapestry connects everything and everyone.
It had occurred to me people displayed nearly identical behavioural patterns at any scale, be it as individuals, family members, partners, sports fans, students in the schoolyard, corporate employees, or prisoners of war in death camps.
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That’s when the Cone pattern had revealed itself to me. Incredibly consistent, relentless, and destructive. Suddenly, wherever I looked, there it was in every area of our lives and on every scale.
Despite our differences, we all experience the same basic fears, needs, fragilities, pains, desires, hopes, and joys, something that is also known as the human condition. It is from this understanding and lifelong observations that I have developed the Cone Model©—a recurring pattern that explains how and why we start with brilliant solutions to our problems yet end up with controlling and destructive life systems.
My mission
I’m on a lifelong mission to leave the world a better place than I found it. I have done it in many ways throughout my personal and professional life, and I’m not done.
Right now, I’m dividing my time and energy between two areas I believe to be well aligned with my mission: One is related to the Cone Model, and the other to the successful integration of newcomers in Canada.
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My first step was to write a book about the Cone Model and reach out with it to the world in as many ways as possible to spread the word.
My second step was to develop a course series that will help integrate newcomers to Canada in the fastest and best way possible. My goal is to help immigrans and refugees gain a sense of home in their new country, and support local communities with effective integration of this incredible human wealth.
My ultimate goal is to lay healthy foundations to open-minded, inclusive, and enlightened practices and dialogues, and to communities driven by a positive and constructive mindset, and an abundance of radical generosity.