Matthew is a big believer in experiential education—playing games, partaking in rituals, sharing stories, reflecting on learning and, through it all, co-creating conditions for celebration. Matthew has been blessed to see, repeatedly in clinic, that as people organize their bodies in movement, they discover connections between intention and action, sufficient safety for profound unlearning, and possibilities for realizing their unavowed dreams.

As a movement-based educator and co-founder of the Eugene Alliance for Somatic Education—a clinician—Matthew equips people of all ages to direct their attention, coordinate their movements, and develop their intelligence. He is blessed to routinely, in the words of Moshe Feldenkrais, make “the impossible possible, the possible easy, and the easy elegant.”

As a learning and development specialist—a creative—Matthew crafts curricula and conducts trainings that incorporate experiential learning; facilitate mindful decision-making; and net increased efficiencies, participation, and consent in organizational governance.

Matthew's professional background includes founding and directing an educational organization for 14 years in the Illinois Valley, where he invented software to give students feedback about their attention; developed fonts to improve reading speed; and created the 8 Questions™, a transformational heuristic that improves decision-making and group cohesion.

Personally, Matthew enjoys passing time in nature with his wife and three children, building things and playing board games with them, and hearing about their days over dinner. Matthew keeps fit through hiking, swimming, bodyweight exercise, and somatic education lessons. His current projects include writing practical philosophy, children’s books, and coaching material related to the 8 Questions, as well as nurturing a robust network of participatory enterprises in Lane County, Oregon.