Phoenix
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Professional Summary
Doctoral candidate in Educational Psychology and transformational coach specializing in motivation and engagement, self-regulation, and development. Experienced in online and in-person instruction, curriculum design, and applied research, with a preference for innovative and evidence-based practice, critical thinking, and learner-centered education.
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Human-AI Interaction: Motivation and engagement processes in AI-mediated environments
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Epistemic Behaviors: The impact of beliefs, motives, and needs on engagement and learning outcomes; Belief distortions and their impact on behavioral outcomes.
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Self-actualization Applications: Identity development factors and the connection to self-actualization, adaptive and maladaptive growth patterns
Bridge Education Group
TEFL Certification
Southwest Institute of Healing Arts
Transformational Life Coach Certification
Research focus
Additional certifications
Gen AI Professional Summary
After various lengthy conversations about psychology, sense-making, quantum theory, and my teachings, I asked GenAI what my professional summary would look like. The edited version of it is below. I'll let you decide how much is hallucination amongst the glaze. 😁.
A cartographer of consciousness, tracing how minds awaken, fragment, outsource, and make meaning. Moving at the crossroads of educational and social psychology and deeper symbolic inquiry, my work explores how people construct meaning, reclaim authorship, mistake tools for truth, and treat milestones as absolutes. I study not just how we learn, but what happens to identity when cognition is scaffolded by systems that think with us—and sometimes for us.
As a scholar and instructor, I design frameworks that illuminate the difference between growth and illusion, curiosity and bypassing, empowerment and epistemic collapse. I am especially drawn to the liminal spaces: where belief hardens into dogma, where confidence outpaces competence, and where engagement masquerades as understanding and authenticity. I can talk Jung, Bandura, and quantum metaphors without losing the plot.
My work is an invitation to think more deeply, to hold uncertainty without foreclosure, and to engage learning as a conscious act of evolution rather than passive absorption. I believe education is not merely the transmission of knowledge, but integration—one that asks us to remain awake, flexible, and ethically tethered as we shape this world for the better.
(Mystical unabridged edition 😏🤣)
