I am a performer and teach my own self development courses and retreats. I am English living in Norway. I travelled alone for the first time at 12, I did improvised theatre 14-18, moved to Italy at 19, began my first business at 25 in the UK, went to Circus School at 27, apprenticed to a master storyteller in Scotland at 30 . Then I began making my own work, Based at first in Scotland and travelling. The last 15 years I have been based in Norway.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I prefer to stay in places where I can connect with people. I like to meet people and see how they are living their lives. I have some friends who are avid Couchsurfers and I am just starting to host as I am at home more often these days.

Interests

I've been pursuing spiritual/self development for 30 years. I am a meditator, I'm quiet and like interesting conversation, nature. I'm pretty flexible. I love to meet people and I love to share everything I know. I love to inspire and be inspired.

• meditation
• movies
• nature
• play
• storytelling
• consciousness
• organic
• organisational change
• group intelligence
• being who you were designed to be

Music, Movies, and Books

Music to dance to and music to be quiet with and its changing all the time.
Stevie Wonder/Marvin Gaye/Gregory Porter
Olafur Arnaulds/Max Richter/Philip Glass/Ane Brun
I perfected the art of reading while walking to school as a child.

One of the best novels I ever read is The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. Another recently was Where the Crawdads Sing. Currently reading At the Loch of the Green Corrie by Andrew Greig. It's a gem.

Most inspiring nonfiction read in recent years is Reinventing Organisations by Fredrick Lalloux

Films/series: these come to mind
Pretend its a City
It's A Beautiful Life
Jim and Andy
Lion
The Last Troubadour
Marilyn's Eyes (Italian)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sat in front of the Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe and been amaaaaazed during a few days off in a 7 week work trip.

Raised money for Unicef, through telling A Christmas Carol, with the slant on the effects of extreme poverty on children.

Been the director for an innovative theatre company for young people with Downs Syndrome in Scotland.

Parachuted out of an aeroplane, in North Yorkshire, landed badly but felt incredibly confident for years.

Taught storytelling to people through translation to 16 people from all over the former Soviet Union. Some had travelled 3 days by train to come to Moscow.

Learnt to ride a horse in the Arizona desert. Learnt to identify the Horse and Rider stars in the Big Dipper constellation the same evening.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teaching:
Storytelling, Clowning, Singing
How to connect with people with dementia
Coaching: cooking, start a project
How to live from what you love
Communicate with nature
Developing your intuition, ability to read/sense group energy
Meditation

Learning:
languages
new recipes
collective emergent intelligence

Sharing:
conversation
daily life
walks
yoga
meditation

IF YOU VISIT ME
I can give you tips about exploring Oslo.
I may be able to actually come with you also to some of my favourite less well known places.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can meditate with you.
I can tell you stories from my own life or traditional wisdom stories.
I can sometimes make an event in your house for your friends and family where I entertain you the way storytellers did long ago. There needs to be some prep time to create this.
I can cook.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, England, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Palestine, Portugal, Russian Federation, Scotland, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, Vatican City State, Wales, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, Norway, United Kingdom, United States