About

August offers coaching that is grounding, collaborative, and tailored to each client. A typical session may include guiding questions, somatic practices, visualization, personalized meditation instruction, and reflective dialogue. As both a certified professional coach (Wainwright Global, Inc.) and trained psychedelic integration facilitator (EMBARK by Cybin), August brings a steady, attentive presence to the work. Their approach blends professional coaching tools with the insight of peer mentoring, supporting clients through transition, burnout, identity shifts, and personal or collective change—with clarity, care, and accountability.

In the early 2000s, their writing as Rocko Bulldagger appeared in That’s Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation and Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity, both edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. They completed the Rockwood Art of Leadership training in 2005 and remain committed to deep collaboration, spiritual resilience, and collective healing.

Their professional life has spanned multiple fields:

• Education reform, where they spent over 15 years working in leadership development, change management, and facilitation—including consulting at the NYC Department of Education. Though deeply committed to better outcomes for children, August is candid about the privatization and opportunism that undermined the goals of education reform, and no longer works within that framework.

• Sex education, where they taught workshops and classes for over eight years at venues including Sex Expo, Cycles & Sex, Housing Works, APICHA, and the NYC Department of Health’s Celebration of Long-Term HIV Survivors. Their offerings ranged from introductory topics to the intersection of aging, desire, and mental health.

• Queer art, most notably from 2007 to 2016 at MIX NYC, home of the New York Queer Experimental Film Festival. As a curator, co-director, and later president of the board, August helped shape programming that foregrounded radical content and transgressive form. Their leadership focused not only on the art itself, but also on the work of collaboration, conflict mediation, and organizational change in a volunteer-run space. They currently act as an advisor to the new team that relaunched the organization and festival in 2024.

August offers coaching sessions via Zoom. They are also available, on a limited basis, as a teacher, consultant, panelist, or facilitator.