I’ve spent forty years learning how people grow.

For most of my working life I’ve been an educator — a teacher of teachers, a choreographer of learning, a designer of rooms where people find their feet. Forty years of scholarship, practice and inquiry taught me one thing above all: people grow when their worlds grow with them.

Along the way I also watched something break. I watched the monotony, drudgery and quiet cynicism of inauthentic ways of being wear good people down. I watched institutions teach us to hand over our imagination — to outsource our sense of what a life could be — and call the exchange normal.

The world doesn’t need us to wait for it to change. It needs us to practise living differently, now.

And I watched what happens when people are released from that. When someone breaks free of the ‘imprisoned self’ and allows themselves real expression and autonomy, something switches back on. Curiosity returns. Play returns. The craft of aliveness — noticing, speaking, doing, thinking and being in ways that are actually yours — turns out to be learnable, and learnable together.

World Founding grew from that watching. It starts where I think all of this starts — with your hands. Moving Meditations is ten small encounters: a haiku tied to a fence, a dish that tastes like a friendship, a puppet made of rubbish. Small encounters that show you, better than I can explain, how we found worlds. At the centre of what follows is the Field Guide — a 250-page companion, delivered to your door, that treats living and becoming as holistic: attitudes, desires, understandings, emotions and conduct as one fabric, not a list of skills. Around it sits a community of people moving through the same terrain, in live seminars, workshops and one-to-one companionship.

Opening ourselves to the living, pulsing encountering of all life feeds the creative.

from the Field Guide

A word about money, because it matters that this is said plainly: it isn’t the point. It’s how the work sustains itself — how guides get printed, rooms get hired, and time gets protected. What we’re actually exchanging is attention, practice and companionship.

None of us founds a world alone. High-trust relationships with even one or two people make this journey far more effective — and far more joyful. So this is less an offer than an invitation: bring your questions, bring a friend if you can, and let’s craft something worth inhabiting.