Founding Imaginismas
Six, EdD, MA
Six, a.k.a. Ryan, is a devious storyteller and an inspired learner who’s usually grumpy and grinning at the same time. From a decade teaching English, coaching basketball, and directing Kairos retreats at an all-boys Jesuit high school, Ryan developed a deep appreciation for the Ignatian approach to learning through experience, reflection, and action.
His doctoral research explored how our relationship to being curious shapes and limits our learning, leading him to theorize that there are six ways humans connect to curiosity—observing, hunting, manipulating, storytelling, playing, and coddiwompling—and that we’re typically encouraged to connect to only three. As a result, many have lost the link between learning (iterating) and nourishing the human spirit.
On the basketball court, Hobbes translated the philosophy of iterative practice into two consecutive state championships, proving that when teams anchor their work to probability, they not only fall deeper in love with the game but inevitably taste the sweetness of surpassing the given.
Hobbes thrives in intimate learning environments where artists and learners can ask meaningful questions and iterate into their own exploration—he calls this “coddiwompling”—setting out purposefully toward unclear destinations—and finds that this approach often leads to meaningful discoveries.
Jane Weintraub, MS
Jane explores the visible and invisible dimensions of consciousness that shape our collective journey. With foundations in Urban Studies, Change Management, and Adult Development, she brings 15 years of leadership in creative ventures and a decade of transformational coaching to her work. Jane draws insight from neurophysiology, spiritual practices, nature’s wisdom, and the stories that echo through humanity’s history.
As a poet, Jane engages in direct, intimate inquiry with sensation, consciousness, and the natural world. Poetry becomes a vital practice—one that slows perception and allows her to dwell more fully in the questions that guide her broader work. This lyrical attentiveness deepens her ability to hold space for transformation, both personal and systemic.
She creates bridges between technology’s rapid evolution and our deeper human potential, finding meaningful connections where others might see only gaps. Through thoughtful language and presence, Jane helps translate complex ideas into new possibilities for growth. She invites us to discover aliveness even in acceleration, while honoring the quiet power of slowness and authentic connection.
Her TEDx talk “Majestic Neurophysiology” and podcast conversations on conscious evolution open windows to futures we haven’t yet imagined but somehow already sense are possible.
Scott Merriam
Scott navigates the intersection of visual design, contemplative wisdom, and transformative coaching—a rare cartographer of both seen and unseen territories. His decade-plus immersion in brand strategy and visual communication has cultivated an alchemist’s intuition for distilling complex essences into elegant forms.
His 15-year exploration of meditation, psychospiritual development, and embodied inquiry allows him to inhabit a unique vantage point—one foot anchored in structured precision, the other dancing in emergent possibility. This dual citizenship makes him an invaluable guide for visionaries whose ideas seek tangible expression.
With Scott, the invisible becomes visible through deliberate creation. His approach combines an architect’s structural clarity, an artist’s reverence for beauty, and a contemplative’s patient attentiveness. Leaders and organizations discover in his presence that clarity emerges naturally from complexity—revealing the inherent intelligence already present within their vision.
Scott’s work illuminates his rare ability to listen beneath surface narratives to deeper currents of potential. In these attentive silences, his clients discover what their work itself wants to become—honoring both marketplace realities and the wisdom trying to emerge through each person and organization he serves.
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