About

The thing that felt like a liability is the whole point.

I am a highly sensitive, autonomy-driven, institutionally misfit person. Those three things together — which once felt like a problem to manage — turn out to be exactly the profile that makes this work possible.

High sensitivity means I perceive what's happening in a room before anyone has said a word. Not as performance, not as technique. As neurology. The capacity to be genuinely present with another person's experience — to feel the weight of what they're carrying without flinching from it — is built into how I'm wired.

Autonomy-driven means the work I choose has integrity that assigned work never quite reaches. It holds together from the inside. Brick@Heart is chosen work. That difference is felt.

Institutionally misfit means I have never been fully absorbed by the worldview I was hired into. I can see the machinery of professional culture for what it is, because I have never stopped being slightly outside it. That outsider clarity, in a coaching room, is the thing that lets me name what a client is living through — because I have lived it, am still living it, and have never been able to pretend otherwise.

These weren't always gifts. For a long time they were friction. The difference is the work.

The work is ongoing. That's not a liability. That's the credential.

I am not someone who solved the problem and now teaches the solution. I am someone who named the pattern, began the work of interrupting it, and built a professional practice around the conditions under which that work can happen most honestly.

The ideal client is someone who is where I was — or where I still am, in some measure. Carrying a profile that institutions have spent years telling them is a problem. Doing translation work that no one around them seems to need to do. Wondering whether the room they belong in actually exists.

It does. That's what Brick@Heart is.

The bricks are not the point. What comes out of them is.

LEGO® Serious Play® is a methodology I came to through a lifetime of building — as an Adult Fan of LEGO long before it was a coaching tool. What I found in the research and training confirmed what I had already experienced: the hands know things the words haven't gotten to yet.

When you build something — even something abstract, even something that surprises you — you externalize what's inside. The model sits on the table. You can look at it from outside. You can question it, extend it, be surprised by what you made. Thoughts kept inside the head resist that kind of examination. A model on a table does not.

For clients who have spent careers feeling like they can't quite say what they mean in the languages institutions provide, this is not a workaround. It is access to a register of knowing that is often more accurate than the verbal register for the things that matter most.

The formal part, briefly.

I am a trained LEGO® Serious Play® facilitator and an ICF-trained coach, working toward ACC certification.

Individual and small group coaching is in person, in and around Milwaukee. Co-regulation — the nervous system settling in proximity to another regulated one — is not a feature I'm willing to route around. The work requires shared physical space to function the way it's meant to.

Organizational LSP workshops are available anywhere. That work is designed to travel — bring it to your team, your offsite, your space.