Designing Ethical, Regenerative, and Narrative Systems for Human and Planetary Futures

As a psychologist and futurist, I help organizations, research labs, and creative teams navigate the ethical, ecological, and cultural complexities of the 21st century.

My work bridges inner and outer systems, helping teams anticipate disruption, strengthen long-term adaptability, and design futures that serve life.

Core Frameworks: Tools for Systems-Level Impact

At the foundation of my work is the EGM-Integral Framework, an evolutionary design system that integrates ten dimensions of human activity and applies the Integral Operating System.

Central to my work is the understanding that story is infrastructure: narrative systems shape meaning, cultural alignment, and human adaptability.

  • EGM-Integral Framework → A scalable systems architecture guiding ethical, cultural, and transformational impact strategies across sectors.

    • Storient™ → A practical tool for aligning storytelling systems with ethical, cultural, and psychological objectives.

  • Rewilding Futures Methodology → A regenerative systems approach restoring ecological imagination and symbolic coherence in human-centered design.

KEY AREAS OF SUPPORT

Ecological Intelligence & Resilience Frameworks

I address the deeper human risks of technological advancement — ecological disconnection, symbolic fragmentation, and emotional exhaustion — by helping individuals and systems reconnect with nature-based intelligence and regenerative design.

Key frameworks and applications:

  • Rewilding Futures — a methodology for restoring psychological coherence and ecological imagination in human systems.

  • ReWilding: Lab — a research and practice studio reconnecting humans with the more-than-human world through nature immersion, the arts, and mind-body practices.

Human-Centered AI Alignment & Ethical Communication

I support teams seeking to embed human values, cultural coherence, and planetary ethics into media and technology.

Key capabilities:

  • Ethical narrative design for responsible entertainment and AI development

  • Cultural foresight to align long-term system impacts with human values

  • Symbolic and moral scaffolding for human-aligned technology

This work draws on the EGM-Integral framework, which integrates 10 dimensions of human activity.

Recent Research Contributions

  • ELON UNIVERSITY + INSTITUTE FOR THE FUTURE

    Being Human in 2035

    This contribution applies the EGM-Integral framework to propose how AI can be designed to enhance ecological empathy and reconnect us with the more-than-human world. The overall report explores how emerging technologies may reshape human consciousness, adaptability, and social systems by 2035.
    → Read the essay (pp. 118-120) or click below to read the full report. (Pages 118–120.)

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  • STANFORD UNIVERSITY

    Existential Risk: From Resilience to Antifragility (2023) Stanford Existential Risks Initiative, Center for International Security and Cooperation.

    This article examines the psychological risks of cascading global crises—including climate change, pandemics, and geopolitical instability—revealing that one-third of the global population may be vulnerable to mental health impacts. It introduces the antifragile mindset as a framework to help individuals and societies adapt and thrive amid deepening uncertainty.

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  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK FOR CREATIVE FUTURES

    Psychological Futures: The Antifragile Mindset and Imperative of Interdependence.

    Published in the Routledge Handbook for Creative Futures, this chapter introduces the antifragile mindset—a capacity to grow stronger through disruption. Integrating systems thinking, post-traumatic growth, and ecological psychology, it explores how creativity, narrative flexibility, and a renewed sense of interdependence can support psychological resilience in the face of accelerating global uncertainty.

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