Julian is a scholar-practitioner who has spent his life exploring and guiding others at the complex crossroads where psyche and systems transformation meet. A grateful guest in the Treaty Seven territories of the Canadian Rockies, Julian’s work is seasoned by a love for the bardic traditions, weathered from a lifetime spent in wild landscapes and honed through contemplative and somatic practice. He’s a business school professor, a coach-advisor and helps lead a complexity leadership institute, but considers himself to be primarily a student of – and occasional teaching assistant to – Mystery and the emergent wonders of the living world. He aspires to be good practical company for anyone wandering in the depths and particularly those called to birth and build the life-enhancing patterns of consciousness and culture required for a flourishing future.
The in-person gatherings of the Roots to Thrive program take place of the ancestral and unceded territory of the Snuneymuxw First Nation at the Snuneymuxw Community Wellness Center, and also on the homelands of the Coast Salish, Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw and Nuučaan̓ułʔatḥ (Nuu-chah-nulth) Peoples.
Integral to Roots to Thrive’s approach to healing, re-connection and remembering who we are, are these Guiding Principles. By embodying these principles we intend to honour and give thanks to the Snuneymuxw and all First Nations, the teachings they carry and lands they steward, and to join in working for Truth and Reconciliation.