Gwen recently co-designed and currently leads Come Alive! TheArtful Play of Coaching , the mastery level
coaching course for the Coaches Training Institute (CTI). She is also a leader of CTI’s year long Co-Active
Leadership Training. Gwen is happiest bringing delight to (de)dark areas of our lives and world,which
she has learned to do through her own frequent underworld journeys accompanied always by
Macy, the Mexican Mutt and Garbanzo, the Fearless Wonder-Pug.
    gwen began her career at the age of 19 building
Muppets™ for Sesame Street. She then joined the Vivarium,
an Apple Computer research group at the MIT Media Lab where she created new ways for children to learn about animal
behavior and built Noobie, the first stuffed aniimal input device. Gwen left the Lab to become the creative director of the

multimedia company, Tell Tale Technologies where she   designed alternative input devices. She left to start her own    production company, Creatures at Large (CaL) and produced     award-winning programs for children. Gwen has been an     artist-in-residence in settings ranging from prisons to corporations.    She spent a year collaborating with research scientists At Xerox PARC      to explore the conditions that give rise to innovation. She recently         won an Emmy Award in children’s programming. Learn more.

		gwen is a talented and playful guide for anyone hungry for their full freedom and aliveness. Trained by the Coaches Training
Institute (CTI) and ripened by a life of inquiry and inadvertant coaching, Gwen has been "officially" coaching since 2002. She and CTI co-founder, Henry Kimsey-House designed the mastery level coaching course, Come Alive: The artful play of coaching, which Gwen currently leads for CTI. She is also a trainer and coach for the Mobius Executive Leadership Team. Learn more about her coaching.
gwen began designing educational experiences in 1989 when she created
the Big Picture Puzzle, a global community arts program using a large puzzle of the Earth. She spent five years providing customized puzzle workshops to communities ranging from prisons to corporations. As a kit, the Puzzle became available to community groups world wide. Gwen served as the education director for the Institute for Deep Ecology for two years where she created a deep ecology leadership program. She has been a lead designer of numerous programs including West Coast Green and the study guide for the film, “What the Bleep Do We Know?!” Learn more about her educational design.
		gwen received her BA at Wesleyan University and an MA in philosophy and religion at the California Institute for Integral Studies.
In addition to her academic background, Gwen draws from in-depth training in mindfulness and loving-kindness, Tibetan Buddhism, the Diamond Approach, and Advaita Vedanta. Gwen has studied integral theory, Jungian dreamwork, Systems Theory, Theater of the Oppressed, Non-violent Communication, the Harvard Negotiation Project, Masterful Conversations, a wide range of expressive arts modalities, and her own brand of body based play practices. She has taught transpersonal play to graduate students at the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology and Holy Names Universtity and has published widely on the subject of play. She is a visiting professor at UCSF and JFK University and a regular guest teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center.