Something real
not yet in the world.
I walk with people for three to six intensive months - until what is inside is also outside.
A bit about the path
I believe in telling the truth and facing it. Without that, you cannot build anything real. For the sake of truth, against the plaster, as Brenner wrote. That requires openness. So here is my story, without plaster.
I grew up in a violent environment. The tools I offer - coaching, chevruta, integrity, theater, music, writing, mindfulness, NVC, CBT - are the tools that built me an attentive and tender mind out of the break. To this day I live with CPTSD and work with it. I am not "the one who healed himself." I am the one who learned to work with the break - every day - and who helps others do the same.
A few years ago that break came apart in the open. I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder after a first episode. A heavy six-month depression followed. At the birth of my eldest son - a second episode, and this time my partner left me. I drifted without a home, slept one night in my car, ran up a hundred thousand shekels of debt, four car accidents. Days hard to describe without tasting them.
I climbed out through long, winding work. Kfar Izun. Books and therapists. Working with kibbutz children, day in and day out, against the depression. A lot of coaching, a lot of meditation, a lot of music and crying and laughter.
Every tool that helped me get up - I know how to pass on. And more than that - I have already done it.
I have accompanied more than ten people through personal processes. One became a professional oud player who makes a living from music. Another opened a clinic after years of certificates gathering dust. Two brothers who had been making each other miserable found peace at home.
Until now I called this work "coaching." That was not quite right. What I do - and this is the name I found after a long search - is a chevruta for action.
What a chevruta for action is
Two words from the tradition. They have to be read together.
Two people who study each other, sharpen each other. Not coach and coachee. A partnership.
A real deed in the world. A person is built through action, not through theory.
I am not a coach who teaches a method. I am not a therapist who heals. I am a partner in your study of yourself - and in the action that emerges from it.
Who this is for
I work with people who carry something real that doesn't yet exist in the world:
- ∗Artists whose work is stuck
- ∗Founders whose vision is not landing
- ∗Therapists struggling to build a practice
- ∗People at a turning point - career, partnership, a decision
- ∗Anyone who feels the outside doesn't yet express the inside
Willingness to do the work. Not just to talk - to act.
How it works
- IA weekly 50-minute session. Exercises between sessions. Three to six intensive months.
- IIWe start from a wish of the heart and a goal. We sharpen strengths, values, resources, vision. We build a roadmap. We work on what's blocking you with the tools that fit the moment.
- IIINo subject is off the table - career, creative work, relationships, fears, decisions, your relationship with yourself. Everything is open to be challenged.
- IVThe foundation is integrity. I say what I think and do what I said I'd do. I ask the same of you.
Want to start on your own?
I built Zotani - an app for a conversation with an AI that remembers you, notices patterns, and surfaces insights. A simple idea: sometimes we need a conversation partner that doesn't run out. And it's a good place to begin before a chevruta with me.
The sources
What I do didn't fall from the sky. It is drawn from the humanistic-Jewish-secular tradition, from Hebrew poetry, and from psychological and theatrical tools I use myself, day in and day out.
Action - a real deed in the world. A person is built through action, not through theory. Through work, as I learned from A. D. Gordon. Through real encounter, as I learned from Buber. Through making meaning, as I learned from Frankl. Through fidelity to the truth, as I learned from Brenner. Through naming things, as I learned from Bialik. And through theater as work on the self and on society, as I learned from Nola Chilton.
What they said
“I feel that, finally, he can be an uncle to my daughter. We've stopped fighting. There's peace at home. You are an angel.”- Partner, after two months of business mentoring with his brother
“Even seven years later, I still name this process as one of the most meaningful turning points in my life.”- Partner, after a short and deep process
“Today I have an active clinic. Back then I was working at Japanika.”- Partner, therapist, after a process of several months
“Finally I have a place. Finally I know what I am worth, what I should do, and how I should do it. Thank you, my dear friend.”- Partner, after the process
Format and pricing
If the price is a barrier - reach out anyway.
How to begin
If this story resonates with you - or if you know someone who needs this - write.