Bioplasticity
You are already adapting.
A practical exploration of sensing, interpretation, action, and adaptation, and what changes when people learn to participate more deliberately in that loop.
Explore Bioplasticity →Speaking & Keynotes
Bring Ryan into the room.
I speak about the strange, practical territory where perception, physiology, attention, play, adaptation, culture, and human experience meet.
The goal is a room that leaves seeing more than it could when it walked in.
What I bring
Ideas people can feel while I am talking about them.
I have spent more than 25 years working at the intersection of lived experience and human change. My talks draw from coaching, hypnosis, breath, sensory perception, neuroplasticity, movement, music, play, physiology, and the questions that keep surviving all of those disciplines.
I care about rigor. I also care whether the idea becomes usable in the body of the person listening.
That means audiences may be asked to notice something, move something, compare something, question an interpretation, or participate in a small experiment while the idea is still fresh.
“Peace is coherence under load.”
From The Physics of Presence
Current talk directions
The subject changes. The question underneath it stays surprisingly consistent.
How much more capable of participating in experience can a human being become?
The Physics of Presence
Peace is coherence under load.
Attention, perception, state, and the ways a person can remain in relationship with more of what is happening when the room, body, or moment gets complicated.
Attention, Play & Experiential Capacity
A larger world requires more ways of noticing it.
How distinction, curiosity, play, sensory resolution, and active participation can expand what becomes available to experience and act upon.
Working With Intelligence
What should become more human as AI gets better?
A conversation about developing experiential capacity in relationship with AI, preserving judgment, curiosity, perception, and the parts of intelligence that need a living participant.
Explore the field note →These are directions, not canned scripts. The topic, examples, depth, and level of participation can be shaped around the actual audience and event.
Formats
Keynote when a keynote fits. Something stranger when it does not.
Keynote
A focused stage presentation built around one central idea with enough lived experience inside it to make the concept memorable.
Workshop
More time for experiments, practice, questions, and applying the material to the people who are actually in the room.
Conversation
Panels, fireside conversations, interviews, and facilitated sessions where the useful thing is thinking in public rather than reciting a finished answer.
Hybrid
Talk, demonstration, sound, music, movement, audience participation, or another form that serves the event better than a conventional lecture.
Where it fits
Rooms built around humans.
Conferences & summitsHealth & performance eventsInnovation & AI gatheringsEducation & professional developmentArts & cultureLeadership & team eventsRetreats & intimate roomsPanels & moderated conversations
In the room
“Real live research in the moment.”
I like rooms where the audience becomes part of the inquiry. Questions, variations, disagreement, observations, and the unexpected are useful material.
Past participant reflection
Invite Ryan
Tell me about the room.
Event, audience, date, place, and what you hope people leave with. If the fit is good, we can shape the right format from there.