Documentary Filmmaker · Facilitator · Rites of Passage Guide
Cedar Wood
Stories about becoming.
I make films, facilitate experiences, and guide people through meaningful thresholds of change.
The Threshold
There are moments when the life we've been living can no longer carry us into what comes next.
A career ends.
A relationship changes.
An identity falls away.
A new possibility begins to take shape.
These are thresholds. I am interested in what happens here.
The Work
Film
Stories worth witnessing.
Documentary filmmaking, photography, interviews, and visual storytelling exploring real people and real experiences.
Rites of Passage
Crossing the threshold.
Wilderness-based ceremonial experiences that help people mark endings, enter uncertainty, and return with new understanding. Trained as a Ceremonial Wilderness Rites of Passage Guide through the Rites of Passage Council.
Private 1:1 Integration
What happens after the experience?
Transformational coaching, psychedelic preparation and integration, embodied practice, reflection, nature-based practice, identity exploration, and meaningful behavioral change. Trained through Transilience with Laura Dawn.
Signature
The Camera
& The Ceremony
My work lives somewhere between documentary filmmaking and ceremony.
Both ask us to pay attention. Both require presence. Both create a container where something can be revealed.
A camera can bear witness to a story. A facilitator can bear witness to a group. A guide can bear witness to a person standing at the edge of change.
Slow down. Pay attention. Listen. Notice what is true.
Featured Film
Seeds of Harmony Trailer
We embarked on a journey to answer "What is Regeneration?" and immersed in teachings from the Diné people, who welcomed us with open arms and open hearts to share their stories and struggles in the Navajo Nation.
- Location
- Navajo Nation, Bluff, Utah
- Year
- 2023
- Role
- Producer/Director · Cinematographer · Editor
- Format
- Documentary · 45 min
About
From experience design to human transformation
For more than fifteen years I worked in experience design, service design, technology, and organizational transformation. I learned how people move through systems, products, and moments of change. Alongside that, I built a practice in filmmaking, wilderness, and ceremony. Eventually the two converged.
What happens when the experience that needs to be redesigned is your life?
A broader practice, still forming
Immerse
A practice for transformation, story, and meaningful experience through retreats, gatherings, films, and immersive work taking shape.
Contact
Choose your next step.
A story to document. A chapter to close. An experience to make sense of. Each calls for its own kind of attention.