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Public intimacy is sharing a genuine self with an audience as your paid labor: doing normally private things, like sharing spirituality, physicality, and emotion, in public as work. It’s the work of demonstrating what it is to be human for others.

So many people: clergy, actors, activists, sex workers, dancers, motivational speakers, politicians, business and non-profit leaders, stand-up comedians, and more. If your work asks you to bring your real self into public view, it probably includes public intimacy.

Yes. Public intimacy isn’t about the size of your audience. A parish minister, a community organizer, or a local leader can feel the same tension between public work and private life as someone on a stage. If you’re noticing that your work makes your interior life harder to nurture, this is for you.

No, and that’s a guaranteed path to burnout or worse. Learning to be your whole self, and knowing what to share, when, why, and how, is the key to a sustainable career in the public sphere.

With a free discovery call. We’ll talk about your work and what you need, and decide together whether working together is a good path forward. If we haven’t worked together before, I’ll insist on a call like this. Our time and resources deserve that level of intention.

We start with a six-session package for $2,000. The first session is 75–90 minutes for deep context, identifying needs, and creating a plan for our conversations. The rest are 50-minute sessions, once or twice a month, whichever makes the most sense for you. After the series, we can continue to meet at $300 per session.

Yes. Public intimacy isn’t about the size of your audience. A parish minister, a teacher, or a local leader can feel the same tension between public work and private life as someone on a stage. If you’re noticing that your work makes your interior life harder to nurture, this is for you.

All your life is fair game. Typical areas include what it is to share a genuine self as paid work; your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being; developing your professional self; managing boundaries, risk, and vulnerability; and understanding your particular role.

Professional and membership organizations, educational institutions, for-profit businesses, and non-profits. I support both leaders and participants, through visioning and discovery work with boards and teams, facilitated conversations about sustainable leadership, and programs on presence and public life.

Consulting is $300 an hour, covering both prep time and the event or series. A keynote or presentation with Q&A is $1,500, a facilitated workshop is $500 an hour, and retreats are $2,500 a day for five to six hours of programming. Speaking fees include my preparation time.

Yes. For onsite work, travel costs are in addition to the base fee and are the responsibility of the organization.

That’s the goal. I work with organizations and teams to create programming that’s specific and impactful, on topics including leadership, presence and authenticity, public intimacy, transformation, and professional and personal growth.

Cohort courses run through Meadville Lombard Theological School, and you register with them. The self-paced courses and the online discussion course are hosted online.

The free Introduction to Public Intimacy is the best place to begin: one lesson with multimedia resources and prompts for reflection and practice. The self-paced courses launch in January 2027.

Registration and fees will be available December 1, 2026, for the course starting in March. It’s six 1.5-hour sessions for a group of six to eight people, and it includes one 50-minute one-on-one meeting with me.

Directors of programs or organizations; C-suite, President, and VP-level executives; and founders of businesses or NGOs. It’s a small group of six, with no two people from the same organization, so the conversation can be deep and trustworthy.