The team
Bryan Kam
Writer & Engineer for the British Library
London
Bryan Kam is a writer and podcaster who is writing a book of practical philosophy called Neither/Nor. A Princeton graduate, he has hosted salons, intellectual discussions, and a book club both online and live in London for more than a decade. He has worked in technology in media, fintech, and now works for the British Library.
Bryan Kam
Writer & Engineer for the British Library
London
Bryan Kam is a writer and podcaster who is writing a book of practical philosophy called Neither/Nor. A Princeton graduate, he has hosted salons, intellectual discussions, and a book club both online and live in London for more than a decade. He has worked in technology in media, fintech, and now works for the British Library.
Bryan Kam
Writer & Engineer for the British Library
London
Bryan Kam is a writer and podcaster who is writing a book of practical philosophy called Neither/Nor. A Princeton graduate, he has hosted salons, intellectual discussions, and a book club both online and live in London for more than a decade. He has worked in technology in media, fintech, and now works for the British Library.
Catherine Woodiwiss
Experience Designer & Journalist
Austin, TX
Catherine is a designer and researcher, exploring human relationships within collective frameworks like money, power, loss, healing, and identity. Catherine has spent the last 10 years building and facilitating design methodologies for civic, corporate, education, and religious stakeholders, helping others creatively apply design processes to promote social wellbeing.
Catherine Woodiwiss
Experience Designer & Journalist
Austin, TX
Catherine is a designer and researcher, exploring human relationships within collective frameworks like money, power, loss, healing, and identity. Catherine has spent the last 10 years building and facilitating design methodologies for civic, corporate, education, and religious stakeholders, helping others creatively apply design processes to promote social wellbeing.
Catherine Woodiwiss
Experience Designer & Journalist
Austin, TX
Catherine is a designer and researcher, exploring human relationships within collective frameworks like money, power, loss, healing, and identity. Catherine has spent the last 10 years building and facilitating design methodologies for civic, corporate, education, and religious stakeholders, helping others creatively apply design processes to promote social wellbeing.
Isabela Granic
Developmental Psychologist, Teacher & Writer
Toronto
With a PhD in developmental psychology from the University of Toronto, Dr. Granic brings two decades of research expertise to her roles as Industry Professor at McMaster University and Director of the GEMH lab. Her groundbreaking work on digital play and mental health has been featured in Time Magazine, Scientific American, and The Wall Street Journal. Drawing from both science and wisdom traditions, she creates spaces where young people develop the social and emotional capacities needed for thriving adulthood.
Isabela Granic
Developmental Psychologist, Teacher & Writer
Toronto
With a PhD in developmental psychology from the University of Toronto, Dr. Granic brings two decades of research expertise to her roles as Industry Professor at McMaster University and Director of the GEMH lab. Her groundbreaking work on digital play and mental health has been featured in Time Magazine, Scientific American, and The Wall Street Journal. Drawing from both science and wisdom traditions, she creates spaces where young people develop the social and emotional capacities needed for thriving adulthood.
Isabela Granic
Developmental Psychologist, Teacher & Writer
Toronto
With a PhD in developmental psychology from the University of Toronto, Dr. Granic brings two decades of research expertise to her roles as Industry Professor at McMaster University and Director of the GEMH lab. Her groundbreaking work on digital play and mental health has been featured in Time Magazine, Scientific American, and The Wall Street Journal. Drawing from both science and wisdom traditions, she creates spaces where young people develop the social and emotional capacities needed for thriving adulthood.
Kevin Bowers
Teacher & Musician
Kingston
Kevin has had the good fortune of being a teacher for over 25 years. Early in that journey he noted that the very things that make for a rich life make for good teaching. A skill in creating interesting experiences, an open mind, community building, looking at the world in interesting ways, considered and critical thought, creativity, and empathy are all fundamental goals of teaching and living.
Kevin Bowers
Teacher & Musician
Kingston
Kevin has had the good fortune of being a teacher for over 25 years. Early in that journey he noted that the very things that make for a rich life make for good teaching. A skill in creating interesting experiences, an open mind, community building, looking at the world in interesting ways, considered and critical thought, creativity, and empathy are all fundamental goals of teaching and living.
Kevin Bowers
Teacher & Musician
Kingston
Kevin has had the good fortune of being a teacher for over 25 years. Early in that journey he noted that the very things that make for a rich life make for good teaching. A skill in creating interesting experiences, an open mind, community building, looking at the world in interesting ways, considered and critical thought, creativity, and empathy are all fundamental goals of teaching and living.
Lauren Wigmore
Facilitator, Hypnotherapist & Generalist
Playa del Carmen / London
Lauren combines intuition with communication skills to support individual and collective transformation and awareness. She is a hypnotherapist, embodiment practitioner, communications strategist, and project manager with a Masters in Psychological Sciences. Blending emotional fluency with psychological insight, she brings coherence, connection, and calm to the spaces she works in — helping people and teams translate emotion into clarity and complexity into flow.
Lauren Wigmore
Facilitator, Hypnotherapist & Generalist
Playa del Carmen / London
Lauren combines intuition with communication skills to support individual and collective transformation and awareness. She is a hypnotherapist, embodiment practitioner, communications strategist, and project manager with a Masters in Psychological Sciences. Blending emotional fluency with psychological insight, she brings coherence, connection, and calm to the spaces she works in — helping people and teams translate emotion into clarity and complexity into flow.
Lauren Wigmore
Facilitator, Hypnotherapist & Generalist
Playa del Carmen / London
Lauren combines intuition with communication skills to support individual and collective transformation and awareness. She is a hypnotherapist, embodiment practitioner, communications strategist, and project manager with a Masters in Psychological Sciences. Blending emotional fluency with psychological insight, she brings coherence, connection, and calm to the spaces she works in — helping people and teams translate emotion into clarity and complexity into flow.
Luke Coles
Teacher, High School Principal & Counselor
Toronto
Luke Coles served as a teacher and Vice Principal at The Sterling Hall School for Boys in Toronto before becoming Founding Principal of Blyth Academy, a co-ed high school. He has extensive experience working with youth across diverse settings: classrooms, international tennis courts, wilderness expeditions, and as a life coach both virtually and in-person. Coles writes and presents widely on youth "stuckness" and develops strategies to help young people discover purpose and direction.
Luke Coles
Teacher, High School Principal & Counselor
Toronto
Luke Coles served as a teacher and Vice Principal at The Sterling Hall School for Boys in Toronto before becoming Founding Principal of Blyth Academy, a co-ed high school. He has extensive experience working with youth across diverse settings: classrooms, international tennis courts, wilderness expeditions, and as a life coach both virtually and in-person. Coles writes and presents widely on youth "stuckness" and develops strategies to help young people discover purpose and direction.
Luke Coles
Teacher, High School Principal & Counselor
Toronto
Luke Coles served as a teacher and Vice Principal at The Sterling Hall School for Boys in Toronto before becoming Founding Principal of Blyth Academy, a co-ed high school. He has extensive experience working with youth across diverse settings: classrooms, international tennis courts, wilderness expeditions, and as a life coach both virtually and in-person. Coles writes and presents widely on youth "stuckness" and develops strategies to help young people discover purpose and direction.
Rick Benger
Community-Builder & Writer
Berlin
Rick brings experience in community design, alternative education, and marketing. He was co-founder and Executive Director of Medley Berlin, an experimental "third space" and neighborhood hub. He launched and ran Laneway Learning in Sydney, a community which turned cafes into pop-up classrooms for fun evening classes. He currently contracts with top-tier Silicon Valley marketing teams.
Rick Benger
Community-Builder & Writer
Berlin
Rick brings experience in community design, alternative education, and marketing. He was co-founder and Executive Director of Medley Berlin, an experimental "third space" and neighborhood hub. He launched and ran Laneway Learning in Sydney, a community which turned cafes into pop-up classrooms for fun evening classes. He currently contracts with top-tier Silicon Valley marketing teams.
Rick Benger
Community-Builder & Writer
Berlin
Rick brings experience in community design, alternative education, and marketing. He was co-founder and Executive Director of Medley Berlin, an experimental "third space" and neighborhood hub. He launched and ran Laneway Learning in Sydney, a community which turned cafes into pop-up classrooms for fun evening classes. He currently contracts with top-tier Silicon Valley marketing teams.
Olena Bulygina
Researcher & Experience Designer
London
Olena has deep expertise in Human-Computer Interaction via a mix of consulting, academia, design, and art. She is a serial founder and educator. She was co-founder of a services design agency that specialised in applying systemic design towards wicked problems, and is a director for the impactful charity Zeilen Van Vrijheid — sending ambulances to her native Ukraine to provide humanitarian support.
Olena Bulygina
Researcher & Experience Designer
London
Olena has deep expertise in Human-Computer Interaction via a mix of consulting, academia, design, and art. She is a serial founder and educator. She was co-founder of a services design agency that specialised in applying systemic design towards wicked problems, and is a director for the impactful charity Zeilen Van Vrijheid — sending ambulances to her native Ukraine to provide humanitarian support.
Olena Bulygina
Researcher & Experience Designer
London
Olena has deep expertise in Human-Computer Interaction via a mix of consulting, academia, design, and art. She is a serial founder and educator. She was co-founder of a services design agency that specialised in applying systemic design towards wicked problems, and is a director for the impactful charity Zeilen Van Vrijheid — sending ambulances to her native Ukraine to provide humanitarian support.
In conversation
At the Liminal Post you'll find conversations with the founding team, parents, and young people in our program.
“We'll model a way of collaboration, so young people can create the seeds of projects that make a real impact in the world.”
Isabela Granic
“A creative posture in your life, as a practice, gives you agency to see beauty and truth and goodness about.”
Kevin Bowers
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Liminal learning
OCN: 1001149984
Liminal learning
OCN: 1001149984
Liminal learning
OCN: 1001149984