The outcomes are a direct function of your engagement.

This is not a passive program; it is a collaborative initiation. Because this work is truly bespoke, I do not promise external trophies like a specific job title or a romantic partner. Those are side effects of a much deeper shift.

However, I do guarantee that you will emerge with a specialized suite of skills:

• Metabolic Sovereignty: The concrete skill of self-regulation and stabilization, allowing you to remain centered even in the eye of the storm.

• The Art of the Decoder: You will gain the ability to track the unconscious motivations directing your life and decode the gross and subtle messages the living world offers as guidance.

• Archetypal Mastery: An intimate awareness of the universal forces animating your specific personality, moving you from fighting your nature to mastering it.

• Dream Architecture: The skill of remembering and using your dreams as a rigorous diagnostic tool for your evolutionary path.

• Systemic Belonging: A fundamental shift from an egocentric identity to an ecocentric orientation. You will move through the world knowing you belong to the cosmic ecosystem, not just your social or family structures.

The "Result" is a Permanent Shift in Gravity.

While I cannot predict the exact form your new life will take, I can guarantee that these paradigm-shifting tools will forever change how you interact with reality.

You will no longer be a passenger in your own life; you will be the conscious navigator of your own evolution.

In chemistry, a catalyst is something you add to an existing mixture that accelerates its transformation without interfering with the essential elements.

Just so, the Catalyst is designed to integrate into your high-functioning life, not to overwhelm it with one more thing to do. We move at the speed of Soul, not the speed of a syllabus.

The Structural Rhythm:

• The Private Intensive: Plan for thirteen 90 minutes sessions. We can meet every week, every other week, or every month. This cadence often evolves throughout the process — beginning weekly and becoming more spacious as the year unfolds. This is the Command Center of your journey.

• The Community Layer: You have access to at least one 90-minute group sessions per week (two if there's a live cohort running). These are highly recommended for atmospheric support and collective wisdom, but they are not mandatory. You engage with the community as your schedule allows.

The Living Practice: The work of the Ecotone is not homework; it is a realignment of your daily life.

• Daily Anchors: Small, high-impact Craft practices like Dream Craft, toroidal field meditation, or organic time management (15–30 minutes).

• Experimental Threshold Crossings: Weekly or monthly invitations exploring your personal edge-zones — such as a guided wilderness wander, a courageous conversation, or a self-designed ceremony.

This is not just one more thing on your plate. The Ecotone is the plate.

Most of my clients find that the Time Craft and self-stabilization skills they learn actually reclaim hours of their week by eliminating the friction of indecision, anxiety, and unprocessed noise.

You aren't adding a burden; you are installing a more efficient operating system.

Most coaching is focused on performance — helping you do more, faster, within your existing story.

The Catalyst is focused on Initiation. We aren't trying to make your current life better; we are investigating whether your current life is still true.

We use ecological maps to determine if you are in a natural state of Composting or Emergence, and we provide the specific ritual and psychological tools to navigate that transition without losing your center.

We enter this journey with a mutual and sovereign Yes, but I recognize that life is dynamic and unpredictable.

If external events interfere with your capacity to continue, we navigate that transition with the same integrity we bring to the work itself.

• The Two-Year Safety Net: While the private initiation is designed as a 13-month sequence, your membership and 1-on-1 sessions remain active for two full years. This provides a built-in buffer of grace should you need to pause, integrate, or recalibrate due to life's demands.

• The Custom "Pause": If you need to step away temporarily, we will design a custom holding pattern — scheduling check-ins at specific intervals to determine the most wise and courageous moment to re-engage.

• The Final Threshold: If it becomes necessary to stop the work entirely, we will hold a formal concluding session to compost the experience and ensure we depart as friends, with your dignity and insights intact.

• The Integrity of Investment: Ecotone Academy operates with a firm no-refunds policy. This policy protects the energetic container of the Catalytic conatiner and ensures my full availability for our contracted time. All financial arrangements are clearly codified in the mutual commitment contract we sign during your initiation.

The only prerequisite for the Catalyst is a life-long experience of being you.

We do not require academic credentials; we require your presence.

• Grounded Application: All concepts are introduced with a Nature-Based rigor that prioritizes lived application over intellectual memorization. We aren't here to study the Ecotone; we are here to inhabit it.

• The Alchemy of Your Past: We will integrate every piece of your previous work — whether that includes years of therapy, plant medicine journeys, meditation, yoga, or professional leadership. We treat your past experiences as the raw data for your next evolution.

• The Biological Birthright: You are already a native-born Earthling. Our work simply reminds you how to speak the language of your own personal ecosystem.

• The Threshold Mandate: The bare-minimum requirement is that you bring your whole self — the shadows, the gifts, the confusion, and the ambition. We use all of it.

No. It is something fundamentally different.

While the effects of this work are often deeply therapeutic, the Catalyst is not clinical counseling, psychotherapy, or medical treatment. It is not a substitute for licensed psychiatric care.

• The "Anti-Therapeutic" Edge: Much of modern therapy is designed to stabilize and reinforce your existing identity — helping you merely cope with a life that may no longer fit. In contrast, Wild Mind work is initiatory. We are often looking for the very shifts (or collapses) that traditional therapy seeks to prevent, recognizing them as the necessary labor pains of your evolution.

• Initiatory vs. Clinical: Our focus is not on "fixing" a pathology, but on activating a destiny. We prioritize the cultivation of your ecocentric Self, symbolic literacy, and the cultivation of the Crafts required to design a life aligned with your soul’s mandate.

• Complementary Support: If you are currently working with a therapist or psychiatrist, this work can serve as a powerful, high-altitude complement to that support. I am happy to collaborate at the level of values and intention, while staying firmly within my professional scope of practice as a Doctor of Divinity and Wild Mind Guide.

The Ecotone is designed to withstand and amplify the heat of transformation.

If you are navigating a significant life transition — divorce, career collapse, or a loss of meaning — this is exactly where our maps are most effective.

However, if you are in an acute clinical crisis (active self-harm or severe instability), we require that you are also under the care of a licensed medical professional.

We work best when you have enough ground-beneath-your-feet to engage in the rigors of the descent. We are building a new world, which requires a stable foundation upon which to begin construction.

This is a valid and important question. The requested investment reflects the high-stakes, high-touch nature of a year-long, private initiation.

• The Economics of Focus: Unlike "at-scale" coaching programs with hundreds of students, I strictly limit this work to eight individuals at any given time. This is a metabolic necessity. It ensures that your evolution is a North Star in my daily awareness, not just a 90-minute slot on my calendar.

• A Lifetime of Integration: You aren't just paying for time; you are accessing a lifetime of specialized experience in Ayurveda, IFS, Astrology, and Soul-Initiation. You are receiving a customized roadmap built specifically for your psychological and biological coordinates.

• Skin in the Game: Transformation requires a threshold of commitment. This investment ensures that both guide and seeker are fully in the arena. It creates the gravity necessary to pull you out of your old story and into the new.

• The Long-View Value: When you consider the two years on the Council and the tuition for in-person immersions, this investment is designed to provide the infrastructure for your growth long after our direct process is complete.

Yes.

While the most efficient investment is a one-time payment of $8,100, we offer two structured payment plans.

The Accelerated path (6-month plan) begins with a $3,000 deposit followed by 5 installments of $1,200 for a total of $9,000.

The Extended path (12-month plan) begins with a $2,000 deposit followed by 11 installments of $800 for a total of $10,800.

The monthly plans include a sustainability premium to account for the additional administrative and carrying costs over the duration of the program.

Note: this is not a subscription; it is a commitment. This ensures that the financial energy of the container remains stable while providing you with the flexibility to manage your cash flow over the course of our year together.

We will finalize these arrangements during our Alignment Session and formalize them in our written Agreements.

Great question.

Hi!

I am a man of Scottish heritage born in 1986.

I am a son, a brother, an uncle, a trusted friend and mercurial lover.

I have a three-year old Golden-Spaniel named Rigby.

I have lived on the Front Range of Colorado since 2011, but am currently (2026) in my own ecotone as I transition to a life split between British Columbia and Costa Rica.

Those are some basic facts.

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