Benjamin believes in challenging assumptions, contradicting beliefs, and playfully disrupting normal life to find new solutions, approaches, and attitudes for living freely and authentically. His clients are as diverse as his background and united in aspiration: to see a new way. A paramedic, retired wildland firefighter, and member of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, Benjamin balances a deep reverence and appreciation for the boons found through discomfort, like learning, self-understanding, and the change we seek to evoke in us and in society.
In his youth, Benjamin chose to live on the road, self-educating and un-bridling himself from the expectations of family and society. His perspective on self-reliance and the kindness of strangers informs his work as do the years spent assisting other first responders to cope and understand the traumas incurred from highly stressful situations; using both mushrooms and teaching classes on how to recognize stress and burnout.
Through experimentation and ancestral guidance, psychedelics opened his mind to new realities, helping him develop and heal from the traumas accompanying high-stress professions. Overwhelmingly thoughtful, Benjamin discerningly holds space for those moving through states of altered consciousness, grounded and open his clients naturally trust themselves in his presence. Sometimes we feel stuck in life through our thinking or actions and can’t seem to see any way out. He attracts clients ready to step through their current perspectives and into a world of wonder and discovery.