I grew up in the lovely green countryside of Devonshire in the UK and I enjoy being in places that are rich with natural life.

I have recently finished directing and producing a feature length documentary with my partner, so I might be called a filmmaker now :) I have also made lots of short films and videos previously, some professionally and I think films have great potential to awaken hearts and minds.

I've visited around 30 different schools, many of them with my partner who I made the documentary with, as part of our project - Wondering School - in Brazil, Portugal, UK, Netherlands and Spain.

I played Taiko drums for about 9 years and performed in Japan and Italy and across the UK.

Before making this profile I co-hosted many couchsurfers in the past via a friend when we lived together for a few years. CouchSurfing has allowed me to meet many great people from all parts of our wonderful planet, it's such a great platform bringing people of the world closer together!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Couchsurfing is absolutely brilliant. It brings people together!

Interests

I love learning and discovering what it means to be human in this wonderful world and I love reading radical books on education and societal transformation. I like all sorts of things, but especially I like laughing and I like friends and also I like dancing to music, philosophising, meditating / trying to stay focused, skateboarding, playing with a diabolo, doing handstands and making ridiculous silly videos.

• festivals
• education
• reading
• learning
• natural world
• planet earth
• handstands

Music, Movies, and Books

I like to stop, think and listen with John Cage, but think not and dance a lot to tropical house. I sway with Bob Marley and bow down to Enkh Jargal. With John Lennon, I am a dreamer too, Bach gives me shivers and c2c give me sick beats, Ali Farka Toure gives the strings spirits of their own, I feel like Leãozinho with Caetano Veloso and Laurie Anderson's superman gives me shivers.

Books: The Art of Loving (Erich Fromm), Experience and Education (John Dewey), Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paulo Freire) Sharing Nature (Joseph Cornell), New Earth (Eckhart Tolle), Gaia (James Lovelock), Essentialism (Greg McKeown), 50 Economics Ideas (Edmund Conway), Harry Potter series, Cradle to Cradle (Braungart & McDonough), The Second Cooperative Sports and Games Book (Terry Orlick), Economix (Goodwin & Burr), Story (Robert McKee), 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen Covey)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Be in the first taiko group outside of Japan to gain a visa to play taiko in Japan, at the age of 13. I was on the Japanese national news!

What I Can Share with Hosts

Discussions on what Love and Freedom are and how to put these into practice. Knowledge about alternative education.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, Egypt, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Maldives, Morocco, Netherlands, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, United States, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom