Creativity in Service
What I Do
I’m a professional writer, journalist, editor, idea consultant and writing coach. I help people with essays, websites, manuscripts, and project proposals of all kinds. I’ve worked with lots of people, from artists, writers and journalists, to scientists, mystics, healers, psychotherapists, film and TV producers, NGOs and academics.
Why me
I have a playful journalistic idea-brain and a vivid writing style that activates people’s enthusiasm and imagination. You can read reviews of my book, The Head Trip, as proof, or check out these testimonials of people I’ve already helped. I like to absorb big, messy multidisciplinary subjects – dream research, say, or contemplative maps of the mind, or animal consciousness – and organize them in ways that reveal their essence and value. I have a sincere curiosity about, and empathy for, all kinds of people and approaches, and enjoy trying to express what is singular about someone’s vision or talent.
I’m also a connector; I connect ideas and people and media and networks. I can help link your ideas to sources that will make them more robust, or more electric, or more applicable—whatever it is you’re looking for. I love meeting in person for live brainstorms, as they usually generate excitement and momentum and you run off with electricity shooting from your hairdo.
Although I enjoy exploring ideas for their own sake, lately my focus has shifted to work that is explicitly of service to people and the planet. There is nothing I would rather be doing: I love people, I love getting them psyched, I love thinking about how to align what they do with what the world needs. This is the true meaning of “vocation” – the place, in writer Frederick Buechner’s words, “where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”
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“Jeff has a unique blend of high rationalism and broad empathy. His reporting from the frontiers – of brain science, of our relationship to other species, of the ability of humans to grow – is brave and curious. He’s a writer and intellectual adventurer, not a specialist in any particular field; his gifts as a communicator help us see the ‘big picture’ and bridge culture to science.”
- Marni Jackson, former Chair of Literary Journalism at Banff Center; former editor Walrus magazine; author of The Mother Zone and Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign.