About Becca
Paying attention & staying curious to what helps us thrive.
My path has never been particularly linear. Looking back, though, I can see a thread running through the different places it has taken me: a curiosity about how people, living systems, and the environments around us work together—and what helps them thrive.
For more than 27 years, I’ve worked as a licensed massage and bodywork therapist, yoga teacher, and guide in embodied practices, including breathwork and meditation. Through hands-on work with the body, I learned to pay attention to what isn’t always immediately visible: patterns of tension, the relationships between seemingly separate parts, and the conditions that help us feel connected, adaptable, and able to move with greater ease.
That work shaped more than my understanding of the human body. It shaped how I listen, how I learn, and how I understand the importance of the systems that support us.
Over the years my work expanded beyond the treatment room into medical education, healthcare technology, and cancer research training and education.
Along the way, I earned a master’s degree in Information Science with a concentration in Health Informatics, completed a certification in biophilic design, and continued exploring the connections between learning, relationships, well-being, and the environments in which we live and work.
I’m now pursuing a doctorate in Educational Leadership, with a concentration in Organizational Learning and Leadership. My interests bring together living systems, relational leadership, and the often-overlooked structures that help people and organizations learn, adapt, and grow.
Nature has become an increasingly important lens for this work. Healthy living systems depend on relationships and networks that may not be immediately visible. The same is true of our bodies, our communities, and our workplaces. When we pay attention to what sustains the whole—not just what is easiest to see—we begin to ask different questions about growth, leadership, learning, and well-being.
My forthcoming article in the Journal of Biophilic Design, “The Invisible Infrastructure: What Living Systems Teach Organizations About Thriving,” explores these connections and invites us to reconsider the relationships and underlying structures that help people and organizations flourish.
Today, I’m bringing these experiences together through teaching, writing, research, and the development of new learning experiences. I’m especially interested in creating continuing education for bodyworkers and other helping professionals—people who spend so much of their time supporting others and who deserve meaningful ways to sustain their own learning, well-being, and professional vitality.
I’m also exploring how insights from nature and living systems can inform the ways we learn, relate to one another, and create environments that support growth. Across these interests, I return to a few enduring practices: noticing what is happening, listening with curiosity, making connections, remaining open to growth, responding thoughtfully, and considering what helps us sustain what matters.
My work continues to evolve, just as living systems do. What remains consistent is the practice underneath it all: stay curious, pay attention, look beyond the obvious, and tend to what helps people and systems thrive.
I’m so glad you’re here.
Recent Publications
The Invisible Infrastructure: What Living Systems Teach Organizations About Thriving
Published in the Journal of Biophilic Design, Issue 24, Biophilic Regenerative Design / New Systems (Nov/Dec 2026)
What if the most essential systems in an organization, are the ones we never see? This piece draws on two decades of bodywork, biophilic design principles, and organizational research to ask: what happens when we stop noticing, naming, and investing in the infrastructure that holds everything together?
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