Gaia Consulting grew out of a question that has followed me through classrooms, farms, forests, protest lines, grief circles, and years of teaching:

Where have you come from, and where are you going?

It is an ancient question. One I first encountered through Jewish tradition, philosophy, and the stories of my ancestors. Over time it became the organizing question of my own life. It led me from Chicago classrooms to the hills of Judea, from community organizing to ecological education, from academic research in East African farming communities to the emerging field of spiritual ecology. Again and again, I found myself asking the same thing—not only of individuals, but of communities, institutions, and civilizations.

Where have we come from?

Where are we going?

And perhaps most importantly, what have we forgotten along the way?

My work began in education, but it has always been about relationship. In Kenya and Uganda, working alongside permaculture-based Farmer Field Schools, I witnessed farmers reclaim themselves as creators, teachers, and stewards of living systems. Their fields became classrooms. Their stories became research. Their communities became laboratories for ecological renewal.

Those experiences reinforced something I had sensed for years: the ecological, social, and spiritual crises of our age are not separate crises. They are manifestations of a deeper rupture—a forgetting of relationship itself. We have become estranged from land, from community, from our bodies, from meaning, and from the living world that sustains us.

The Jewish tradition speaks of covenant: the recognition that we do not belong only to ourselves. We inherit obligations to one another, to memory, to future generations, and to the communities that make our lives possible. That covenantal imagination remains deeply influential in my work, even as my intellectual and spiritual journey has expanded into dialogue with Indigenous wisdom, ecopsychology, contemplative practice, systems thinking, and ecological philosophy.

Gaia Consulting is an attempt to cultivate that sense of belonging at a planetary scale.

Through publications, fellowships, courses, consulting, storytelling, research, and gatherings, we bring together educators, scholars, artists, activists, spiritual practitioners, and community leaders who are searching for more regenerative ways of living and learning together.

Our goal is not merely to spread ideas.

It is to help them take root.

To help wisdom become practice.
To help grief become praise.
To help knowledge become relationship.
To help communities remember that they are part of a living Earth.

In the Bible/Torah, there is a teaching that when the first human was created, God led them through the Garden and said:

“Look carefully at My world. See how beautiful it is. Do not destroy it, for if you do, there will be no one to repair it after you.”

Gaia Consulting begins from that invitation.

To look carefully.
To remember.
To belong.

And to participate, however imperfectly, in the healing of our world.