I know loneliness deeply.
I know what it feels like to look from the outside in. To be a part of and apart from at the same time. To find it easier to escape yourself and seek validation and meaning in career achievements, experiences, and material things. To long to belong to something greater than the material world with all its suffering.
I've always been a determined observer of the human condition and the world. Growing up between cultures, Chinese and German, coming from a lineage of migration, loss, and erasure of identity, I held my inner world close.
Through that, I was able to connect to the longings and sufferings of others. Language and stories have always been how I made sense of things, and how I reached naturally toward the world.
From a pretty shy and fearful way of being, I've learned over the past decade to open gradually — to look more deeply, and to invite others in.
Rediscovering my love for words and language, play, dance, travel, gathering, and finding my spiritual home in Plum Village.
Learning how to be alone and in relationship, to practice community as a verb, and to connect the personal with the political, the spiritual with the mundane, the individual with the systemic.
This ultimately became the origin of this work.
With The Oneliness Project, I’ve created a living space to explore just that…
…through the human and shared experience of loneliness, and through it, developing Oneliness: a philosophical lens on loneliness, relationality, and the world we share.
“So what is the cure to loneliness?” I don't have it. Nor do I think it's the question that actually matters.
I reject solutionism — and am deliberately not offering another Western epistemological project that packages the complexity of being human into something scalable and solvable. Instead, I'm inviting you into a way of seeing and being that also informs the systems we want to shift — through the lens of Oneliness.
My first book is in progress.
Previously, I held the position of Head of Curation and Community at House of Beautiful Business, where I helped grow a global community of 50,000 members and curate programs and festivals across the world — working with brands like Google, Salesforce, Porsche's forward 31, Otto Group, and others.
Before that, I worked across corporate marketing and digital agencies — including a chapter as program and communications manager at Thought For Food Foundation, running the TFF Challenge and academy in Rio de Janeiro, and helping to build the first year of purpose-driven consulting agency Soulworx where I wrote my master's thesis on the future of work almost ten years ago now.
