About Me

I’ve been seeking my whole life.

As a child growing up in the evangelical church, I didn’t understand their teachings of separation, duality, and exclusion did not resonate — despite being anchored by Christ’s teachings of love and acceptance.

My adult life has been dedicated to deeper intellectual, emotional, and spiritual understandings of love, justice, consciousness, and community.

Everything I do is centered in practices of expansive & generative love, choice, and reconciliation.

I embrace conflict knowing that it can bring us closer.

I invite love & compassion into all of my relationships — while also understanding that clear limits & boundaries are necessary conditions for us to love another.

I’ve learned so much from so many as well as from my experiences living in the American South (Tennessee for 22 years), American North (Connecticut and NYC for 13 years), and Korea (8 years).

I continue to be grateful for the privileges that have allowed me to ask questions, set limits, and follow my path.

Education & Training

Lombard Mennonite Peace Center
Conflict Resolution & Mediation Skills Training

Right Use of Power Institute
Conscious Ethics and Power Trainings
Power Conscious Restorative Integration Program

Wheel of Consent Facilitator Training
2024; in practice since 2019

Blue Throat Yoga — Non-Dual Contemplative Practices, Studies, and Meditation
Intensive study and practice with Paul Muller Ortega and other teachers
2020-2024

Somatic Abolitionism (Embodied Anti-Racism Practice)
with Resmaa Menakem, Carlin Quinn, and other teachers
2022-2023

Reiki Certification (Knoxville, TN)
Certified, Levels 1 & 2 with Angelyn Nicholson
2020-2021

Wisdom of the Earth Aromatherapy (Hartford, CT)
Aromatherapy Certification with John Odlum
2018

Biofield Tuning (Burlington, VT)
Certification in Levels 1 & 2
2017-2018

University of Tennessee (Knoxville, TN)
BA in Rhetoric & Writing
1998-2001

Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea)
MA in Korean History & Culture
2012-2015

Retreats

POWER/PLEASURE RETREAT (Easton Mountain, NY)
Created by Adam Nicholson
Facilitated by Adam Nicholson, Kai Cheng Thom, Yvonne Druyeh Dodd
October 2023

PLEASURE RETREAT (Easton Mountain, NY)
Created and facilitated by Adam Nicholson and JoJo Bear
March 2022

ASK RETREAT (Easton Mountain, NY)
Created by Adam Nicholson
Facilitated by Adam Nicholson and Corrine Diachuk
October 2019