About me
Hi, I’m Hannah.
I’m a coach, facilitator, and guide — here to support people and groups who are ready to do the work of transformation.
Portrait by Amber Johnston ~ www.amberjohnstonphoto.com
I am equally passionate about working with individuals and groups. I see these as inseparable: for groups to function well, the people within them need to be healthy and self-aware. And for individuals to truly flourish, they need communities that can hold and support them. The two go together.
My love for groups goes back to my earliest years. I was brought up going to Quaker meeting, where everyone is acknowledged as a minister and decisions are made through consensus. My mother was always an active participant in community groups and introduced me to the art of facilitation early. I got lucky with an extraordinary fifth-grade teacher who believed so completely in the capacity of ten-year-olds that he spent hours each week teaching us how to work together — and then handed us the tools to run the classroom ourselves.
In my twenties, I became passionate about shaping societal change. I co-founded a small organization that used popular education techniques to help new teachers become conscious of the systemic architecture of racism and classism in the school system and recognize their internalized biases. I led and participated in many groups experimenting with tools for waking up to how power and oppression operated in our lives and institutions.
I witnessed people transform their seeing and thinking and start acting in new ways. I developed a deep love for the sacred thing that happens when people come together to listen and share with honesty.
But I saw the other side of group dynamics too.
Hosting our first large event for new teachers - New Orleans, Louisiana, Sept. 2011
In the broader social justice community I was a part of, I watched multiple coalitions of dedicated people with shared visions and values fracture because they couldn't sustain trust with one another. As I sharpened my understanding of systemic forces, I saw that the same logic of insider and outsider and the hierarchy of worth that we were trying to dismantle in the world, was alive inside our movement spaces. This broke my heart and showed me analysis wasn't enough. Something deeper had to shift.
In the midst of this heartbreak, I had a spontaneous, life-changing experience I did not induce in any way. For one radiant day and night, I was filled with a knowing — actually, a full-bodied experience — that we are held in a universe made of love. We are loved without condition, and we are inherently whole.
Everything around me shimmered with beauty. I felt clarity in every cell: this life is a gift; we are deeply supported, even when things are hard; there is an intelligence available to us that is larger than our minds alone.
Canoeing the Black Creek in MS on that magical day
The glow faded the next day. But the sense that that experience was more real than my habitual lens on life has never left me.
Through that heartbreak and that glimpse of the unified field, I saw more clearly than ever that a set of deeply held, largely unconscious beliefs were limiting my and our capacity to live harmoniously together.
I became passionate about healing as the path to liberation: not as an escape from the world, but as the most transformative form of engagement with it.
What followed was a decade of deliberate practice.
I started a gardening business in 2015 — partly as a way to learn from the earth, and partly to give myself a container where I could practice living and working differently. What began as just me maintaining other people's gardens grew, over nine years, into a design, installation, and maintenance business with dozens of clients and a small team. I taught myself every role: horticulture, sales, design, project management, and eventually team leadership. Running a business that happens almost entirely outside, on many different sites across a city prone to extreme weather taught me how to be highly intuitive and adaptable.
A garden I designed, planted and maintained with my wonderful team
Simultaneously, I was doing my own inner work in earnest. I sought out mentors and teachers who embodied the clarity and compassion I wanted to grow into. Starting in 2017, I studied intensively with Thomas Hübl, beginning with his Timeless Wisdom Training, and continue to learn from teachers and healers who support me in unwinding my own trauma and opening my nervous system.
At an early morning session with Thomas circa 2019
The more I healed, the more the people around me sought me out for support. After meeting coaches who clearly walked their talk — whose confidence and wisdom was rooted in their lived transformation — I knew that was the path for me.
In 2019 I became a certified Life Coach and have loved this work since the day I started. I continue to study the theory and tools of transformative facilitation and remain deeply inspired by the power of group processes to shift culture as well. My on-going inner work gives me the capacity to attune to my clients from a place that is spacious, open, warm and precise. This is the basis of my coaching and facilitation.
Here’s a short summary of my training and credentials:
Coaching
Associate Certified Coach, International Coaching Federation (2026) — internationally recognized coaching credential signifying formal education, demonstrated competency and ethics
Certified Life Coach, Flow Coaching Institute (2019) — neuroscience-backed coaching methods for creating lasting behavioral change
Facilitation
Certified Collective Trauma Co-Facilitator, Academy of Inner Science (2025) — three years of study and practice in collective trauma integration processes developed by Thomas Hübl, including co-facilitating a year-long exploration of collective trauma in the US South with a multiracial group
Timeless Wisdom Training Certificate, Pocket Project & Academy of Inner Science (2020) — three-year intensive in consciousness evolution, transparent communication, shadow work, group dynamics, and culture development
Advanced Practicum, The Circle Way (2018) — shared leadership facilitation that draws on the collective wisdom of the whole group
Story Circle Methodology, Free Southern Theater Institute (2011) — a facilitation practice rooted in its origins as a community organizing tool in the Civil Rights Movement
Systems Thinking & Ecological Design
Permaculture Design Certificate, Earth Activist Training (2015)
Social Permaculture and Facilitation Training I & II, Earth Activist Training (2015 & 2016) — application of ecological design principles to human communities and organizations
Academic
Certificate of Advanced Studies - Collective Trauma Integration Process, Witten/Herdecke University, Germany (2026)
B.S. Development Sociology, Cornell University, with a concentration in Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies (2008)
I work with individuals through coaching, with groups through facilitation, and with organizations through consulting.
If you're ready to engage more fully — in your life, your leadership, your relationships, or organization — I'd love to explore whether we're a fit.