let’s work together.

A gentle landing is both what I offer and what I am learning to live. It names spaces where people can arrive without bracing, where the body can exhale, and where clarity emerges through presence rather than pressure. I bring this contemplative philosophy into every collaboration, gathering, and project, creating environments that support reflection, honesty, and meaningful transformation.

I support individuals and communities through spiritual direction, teaching, facilitation, creative expressions and scholarship. In one on one spiritual direction, I offer grounded accompaniment for those navigating transition, faith shifts, burnout, grief, or vocational discernment. My approach integrates contemplative practice, somatic awareness, and poetic listening, helping people attend to what is already present in their lives.

As a teacher and facilitator, I design learning spaces that are spacious, intellectually rigorous, and accessible. I am practiced in translating complex theological and cultural ideas into language people can live with. I draw from womanist theology, spiritual formation, digital life, and embodied practice to inform my work in classrooms, retreats, workshops, or community gatherings. I help groups slow down, think together, and engage questions of faith, justice and identity with reflective vocational depth and care.

Poetry and creative expressions are central to my praxis. Through performance poetry, reflective writing, and guided creative practice, I help people reconnect with their inner lives and articulate along the edge of language. These practices are especially powerful in settings seeking healing, reimagining, or renewal.

As a scholar, I bring flexibility and curiosity to new challenges in my approach to interdisciplinary work, moving across theology, poetics, spiritual formation, digital life, and cultural critique. My scholarship is shaped by womanist thought and grounded in my everyday experiences. Bringing poetic focus into written reflection, my words and ideas support embodied spiritual and creative flourishing. I bring a fresh perspective to questions of vocation, rest, trauma aware formation, and the spiritual lives of Black women. For me, research is a contemplative practice.

I am open to new spiritual directees, creative gigs, collaborative and experimental scholarly projects, public facing work, and teaching opportunities. I love working on collaborative projects, in experimental formats, and dynamic roles that invite creative problem solving and thoughtful design. I work well across contexts and disciplines, and I am especially drawn to opportunities where the approach is valued as much as outcomes.

If you are seeking a collaborator who can hold complexity, create grounded and reflective spaces, and bring beauty through contemplative presence, then let’s work together.

Book Rose

“I had the pleasure of learning from Rose in her thoughtful and thorough class ‘Digital Ministry As Contemplative Practice.’' Both curious and assured, Rose leads with a style that feels invitational and expansive when it comes to learning. Truly, her grounded presence makes for a tremendous learning experience. I can’t recommend Rose enough!”

— Former Student

explore my offerings

My practice is informed by my commitment to softness. Through attentive listening and reflection, we can explore together what it looks like to practice and affirm the gentle landing you deserve.
I am open to working with individuals for monthly sessions and for group accompaniment.
Please note: Spiritual direction is not a supplement for therapy/counseling/mental health services.
I am open to writing, speaking/preaching, teaching, and performing. This list is an example of past work I’ve done and am open to exploring as I express my hope for a gentle landing in the world.
-Poetry Writing
-Liturgical Writing
-Devotional Writing
-Essay Writing
-Podcast Interviews & Hosting
-Speaking/Preaching
-Voiceover/Narration
-Musical performance
-Panels
-Workshop Facilitation
-Squarespace Web Design
As an educator, I have taught at a Christian college and with church organizations on practical theology and ethics for the sake of social justice. My courses have explored Christian faith, protest, and racial justice by exploring the historical and theological roots of racism and anti-racist resistance in the US context. I co-facilitated an intercultural studies course on leadership, power, and privilege in diverse contexts, focusing on racial justice and identity integrations as well as hip-hop missiology. I enjoy teaching in a facilitative style with students, integrating liturgy, poetry, and popular culture into my lessons.
I work best when I can transgress disciplinary boundaries and ask questions that engage multiple subject areas, such as:
-Vocational Discernment (redefined to include rest as vocation)
-(Theo)poetics, Creativity, Imagination
-Black poetry & literature
-Black contemplative thought
-Social Justice & Christian Ethics
-Critical Pedagogy
-Trauma, Identity Formation & Spiritual Care
Previous Classes:
-Digital Ministry as Contemplative Practice
-Reconciliation & Justice
-Christian Faith, Protest, & Racial Justice
-Leadership, Power, & Privilege in Diverse Contexts
I love a good conversation and am always enthusiastic about pointing people toward valuable resources, practices, and principles. With a focus on collaborative conversations with individuals and communities, I am open to consulting to co-create gentle landing spaces, cultures, and practices. Gentle landing presumes an ethical commitment to well-being and justice, whether through personal inner work or structural change.
Here are some topics I have consulted on in the past:
-Engaging Black contemplative thought
-Decentering whiteness in spiritual formation
-Reframing vocational discernment around rest
-Creating anti-oppressive and anti-burnout work cultures
-Practicing and clarifying rest ethics and practices for communities
-Unblocking creativity and imagination
-Tools, study, and writing methods for seminary students
-Using digital media tools and strategies for content creation