Sea Change Design Institute

06/14/2026

This guy’s one of a kind.

03/05/2024

The 35th conference begins 3/28! As usual, my high expectations will be exceeded. And the keynotes, panels, and conversations will embolden me. Why? Bioneers is a nexus where what I call “Design Consciousness” abounds: where people are intentionally co-creating transformations with humanity, nature, spirit, and time in life-revering flow.

For example: My blog post, "Fire, Ice, Prophesy” is about the 2023 panel: “Can Storytellers Help Save the World?” with Icelandic author, Andri Snær Magnason (On Time and Water), Keenan Norris (Chi Boy), and moderator, Laleh Khadivi. I asked the last question: “I'd like to deepen this conversation by looking at the relationship between place and being. Andri, you are from the island of extremes—fire and ice. How has the coldness of glacial absence and the heat of volcanic presence shaped your soul?”

Fire, Ice, Prophesy
https://seachangedesign.com/blog/fire-ice-prophesy/ -797

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Photo credits, Left to right:
Fagradalsfjall volcano ©Brian_Emfinger
Odin and the Völva (1895) by Lorenz Frølich
Dead Ok (Okjökull) glacier by AFP/Nasa

10/30/2023

Grief Cry is a poetic immersion into mourning and re-emergence into life. Grief is a liminal space of transformation. It’s where sorrow merges with the sacred and grief and grace co-exist in the same moment. The thing about grief is that numbing, suppressing, or avoiding it has paralyzing and often grave repercussions. But the inverse is also true, that grief explored and expressed serves as a powerful catalyst. Grief is knocking on our door. If we are to remember what being truly alive is, we had better open it.

I invite you to listen to your own grief cry or expand your awareness to hear our collective grief cries. Please share this. Someone you know is hurting right now. This just might show them that like humpback whales, after the dive comes the breach where we "send our heart-shaped plume of blessed breath out into the world."

https://seachangedesign.com/blog/grief-cry-2/

06/09/2023

One of my fav state parks - now I know what other critters live there

03/03/2023

I'm thrilled to launch our new Sea Change Design master course! Already the cohort is realizing that the butterfly effect from each one of us is amplifying the sea change in consciousness that's occurring right now. We've entered the nexus of self, crisis, and life and we're using as both vessel and revelation to evolve a flourishing world. We're immersing together. We'll emerge inspired. I already am!

If you're interested in applying for the next cohort, message me. Meanwhile check out my blog post: Transforming Crisis into Consciousness at: www.seachangedesign.com

01/04/2023

"Atmospheric rivers can grow to 2,000 miles long, 500 miles wide and two miles deep by the time they strike the western coasts of continents. An average AR brings far greater rainfall than a typical rain or thunderstorm in those parts of the world, transporting enough v***r to equal 25 times the flow rate of the Mississippi River where it pours into the Gulf of Mexico."

Knowing when torrents of rain will strike can save property and lives

12/03/2022

Spiraling flow.

Incredible cooperative behaviour. A large pod of Humpback whales in Antarctica team up and work together to trap krill in a net of bubbles before scooping th...

11/01/2022

As a 2020 AIGA Fellow, I’m so excited to welcome this year's recipients at the celebrations! August de los Reyes (1970-2021), Emily Pilloton-Lam, Steve Jones, and Martin Venezky. Join us this Friday, Nov. 4th at the Herbst Green Room in SF to be inspired by these design luminaries and contribute to . Tickets are available at AIGASF.org.

The AIGA Fellow Award recognizes seasoned designers who advance excellence in design as a discipline, profession, and cultural force. The areas of leadership, reputation, education, and writing, as well as the practice of design are given equal consideration in measuring a Fellow’s significant contribution; along with their noteworthy and positive impacts within their local or regional design community and local AIGA chapter. As the largest professional association of designers in the world, the American Institute for Graphic Arts advances the value and impact of design, locally and globally.

Check out all the AIGA SF Fellows back to 1999: https://lnkd.in/gX7iJt5G

06/09/2022

Let's pause to acknowledge and appreciate our planetary life support system. Check out the recording of the United Nation's 2022 event: Revitalization: Collective Action for the Ocean. Events from prior years are also available, along with the declaration, overview, and history of this critically important celebration focused on our blue planet.

Join us in celebrating the Sea Change Design Institute's 7th anniversary today too! This makes 22 years of Sea Change Design at work in lives, organizations, and the world. www.seachangedesign.com

Our intention:
How is the Sea Change Design Institute co-creating life-revering flow with conscious clients to presence evolutionary potential?

In celebration and support of the life and livelihood that the ocean sustains, UN WOD 2021 will feature keynotes, panel discussions and presentations that spotlight biodiversity, latest oceanic discoveries, the interconnectivity between the ocean and its ecosystems, and more.

03/22/2022

It's . I don't know about you, but when I see these images of Mother Earth's flowing life blood, a deep ache begins to resonate within my body.

Check out the world's river watersheds, mapped in stunning detail by Hungarian cartographer, Robert Szucs, who offers us a very different way of relating to these living treasures. There's lot more eye-opening maps at Grasshopper Geography

"Szucs is not just a theoretical map enthusiast, but also a practical one. He tries to move to a different country every few months, “donating” his mapmaking skills to worthy causes. He’s worked with archeologists on St. Eustatius, an island in the Caribbean, with marine biologists in Alaska, and for an orangutan conservation programme on Borneo, among other destinations."

Hungarian cartographer travels the world while mapping its treasures.