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Kate has always been insatiably curious about applying
interdisciplinary approaches to problems. For example, Kate’s love of nature led her to complete an inter-disciplinary master’s degree in coastal geology with a specialty in hazard mitigation. She looked at geologic hazards from a biological, geological, engineering, environmental, and social perspective.
Kate’s work in the 70’s and 80’s as a scientist and educator led her to teaching communities and organizations about the geologic processes of |
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earthquakes, floods, and coastal storms and how to prevent the related damage from happening again. She worked with private communities, oil companies, and private institutions
throughout the United States including the California Coastal Commission and the United States Geological
Survey. Kate was known for her easy, fun style in teaching complex geologic processes in simple, practical terms that motivated people to change the way they organized their communities around fault zones, rivers and the
coast line.
Throughout her work in geology, Kate realized that understanding earth processes was
also of great relevance for understanding psychology, spirituality, and how
people and organizations deal with change. She began using the earth’s processes as a metaphor for personal and organizational processes, adopting a deep ecological mindset toward life.
Kate began to study other cultures that also used nature as a teacher.
Throughout the 80’s and 90’s, she traveled to Nepal, Peru, Mexico, and
throughout the United States, following the common thread of cross
cultural values and wisdom found in indigenous and eastern cultures. She
has had the great honor and privilege to work with many gifted healers and
teachers, including native healers in the Amazon jungle and Mexican
highlands, as well as modern day equals like Angeles Arrien and Jose Luis
Stevens.
Kate found the cross-cultural values to be
inherently practical and essentially overlapping the ecologic perspective
of life. She began to weave these two sets of similar values into her
personal life and professional work with organizations and the people in
them.
Kate’s use of nature as a teacher and her active study in indigenous and
eastern wisdom is a way of life for her. Now referred to as a “wise
woman” among Fortune 500 executives, Kate’s gift is the practical
application of ecology and cross-cultural wisdom to creating sustainable
change in our personal and professional lives.
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