Technical

• Professional Certificate in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, UC Berkeley (2023)
  • Graduate-level qualification with capstone on collaborative filtering recommender systems and NLP-based tagging
• MRes (Distinction) in Complexity Science, University of Bristol (2008-2009)
  • Dissertations supervised by Prof. Dave Cliff and Prof. Karoline Wiesner
  • Lead developer of the software that won Best Model at iGEM 2009
• MPhys (First-class) in Physics, University of Oxford (2004-2008)
  • Dissertation on community detection in complex networks supervised by Prof. Mason Porter

Coaching & psychotherapy

• Accredited Diploma in Transformative Coaching (ICF Level 2), Animas Coaching (2022)
• Foundation in Core Process Psychotherapy, Karuna Institute (Mar 2020)

Meditation

• Retreats and courses with teachers qualified by Rob Burbea:
• Deep Joy: A Samadhi Retreat with Yahel Avigur and Sari Markkanen at Heponiemi, Finland (Sep 2025, 6 days)
• The Eye of the Heart: Tracing a Path to Soulfulness with Catherine McGee and Juha Penttilä at The Friendship Inn, Finland (Mar 2025, 9 days)
• Freedom in Everything, Hermes Amara Foundation annual retreat with Yahel Avigur and Juha Penttilä at Colehayes Park, UK (Dec 2023, 6 days)
• The Eye of the Heart: Tracing a Path to Soulfulness with Catherine McGee and Yahel Avigur at Gaia House (Sep 2023, 9 days)
• Seeing Through Dualities, Deepening in Emptiness with Yahel Avigur and Susy Keely, online (Jan – Mar 2023)
• Liberating Ways of Looking with Yahel Avigur and Kirsten Kratz at Gaia House (Oct 2022, 7 days)
• The Courageous Heart with Kirsten Kratz and Laura Bridgman at Gaia House (Dec 2021, 3 days)
• Other retreats:
• Jhana retreat with Jhourney, online (Apr 2024, 7 days)
• The Boundless Heart of Metta with Zohar Lavie and Jake Dartington at Gaia House (Mar 2022, 4 days)
• Vipassana at Dhamma Dipa (Feb 2017, 10 days)
• Sensory Awareness with Lee Lesser at the Esalen Institute (Nov 2015, 2 days)

Swimrun & triathlon

• ÖTILLÖ Sprint swimruns:
  • Åland 2025 (3h56m, 3.3km swim, 12.5km run)
  • Gothenburg 2025 (5h11m, 3.9km swim, 18.5km run)
  • Final 15k 2024 (2h09m, 1.1km swim, 13.8km run)
  • Utö 2024 (2h56m, 2.8km swim, 13.9km run)
• Weymouth Classic Triathlon 2023 (3h26m)
• Weymouth Sprint Triathlon 2022 (1h38m)

Scuba diving

• SSI Advanced Adventurer (Nov 2024)
• PADI Open Water Diver (Feb 2024)

Shipibo plant medicine

• Ceremonies with Maestras Laura and Lila near Sintra, Portugal (Jul 2023, 6 days)
• Guayusa dieta with Maestras Ynes, Laura and Lila near La Fortuna, Costa Rica (Oct 2021, 10 days)
• Music retreats with Rainer Scheurenbrand (Mar 2018, Feb 2020)
• Noya Rao dieta with Maestra Manuela near Pucallpa, Peru (Dec 2017, 10 days)

Soulcraft & Wild Mind

• Betwixt: Exploring the Threshold between Worlds with Rebecca Card and Bell Selkie Lovelock (Mar 2022)
• Wild Mind Intensive at Lūžņa, Latvia with Sage Magdalene and Sara McFarland (Aug 2021)

Tantra & conscious sexuality

• The Body: Temple of the Divine with Daniel Odier (May 2025)
• The Pleasure Journey with Elaine Yonge (Oct 2024)
• ISTA I & II led by Elaine Yonge (Sep 2019, Apr 2022)
• Ma Ananda Sarita's Tantra Essence course (2020)
• The Tantric Opening with Gaia Ma at Inanitah, Ometepe, Nicaragua (Nov 2017)

Futurecraft residencies

• Feÿtopia, France (Feb 2025)
• Brave Earth, Costa Rica (Dec 2023)
• Calamansac, Cornwall, UK (Apr 2023)

Other residencies and retreats

• Emerge Lakefront (Jun – Oct 2025)
• Retreats on Ekskäret (Come Together: Oct 2023; Elevate: Nov 2024, Mar 2025, Jun 2025; Spark, Sep 2025)
• Feÿtopia (Mar 2024)
• Microsolidarity Gatherings (Jul 2023, Feb 2024)
• Life Itself’s Embodying Collective Transformation residency (Nov 2022)
• Retreats with Zen teacher and mediator Diane Musho Hamilton (Oct 2022, Dec 2024)
• HER men's retreat with coach Alain Lagger at Brave Earth, Costa Rica (Oct 2021)
• Clowning at the Divine Ridiculous Lupercalia (Feb 2020)
• Haka with Matiu Te Huki at Canaan Downs, Golden Bay, Aotearoa New Zealand (Feb 2019)
• Deep Magic retreat with Julian Vayne at St. Nectan's Glen (May 2018)
• Short course in Erotic Ecology at Schumacher College with Andreas Weber (Mar 2018)
• Mushroom cultivation at Fungi Academy, Lake Atitlán, Guatemala (Jan 2018)
• Awakening of Love by Path Retreats (Mar 2017)

Online

• Capra Course with Fritjof Capra on the The Systems View of Life (Fall 2022)
• KERNEL KB7 (Sep – Nov 2022)
• Recapture the Rapture with Jamie Wheal (Aug 2021)
• Platform Co-ops Now! by The New School & Mondragon University (Oct 2020)

Burns

• The Borderland (Hyperstition, 2024; The Inner Cartographers' Club, 2022; Camp Croquis, 2019; La Botica Exótica, 2017; Hampus Campus, 2016)
• Kiez Burn (The Beehive, 2019)
• Nowhere (La Botica Exótica, 2016; Sentimos, 2015; Übertown 2014)