About This Space

Everything here — words, images and sounds — is my art: communication straight from my heart and mind. This space is for contemplation. So that you slow down, stop, and sit with a question longer than usual. It’s an experience I prepared with you in mind.

Who I am

I’m Damian.

I like logic, humor, art, meditation and non-duality. Day to day, I work as an engineering manager, managing people, projects and risk in IT. I started with physics and code, studied applied computer science at the Faculty of Physics, so I know the scientific method from the inside.

As a small child I asked my mom why we live, where people came from and why we have to die. Over the years those questions didn’t fade; they grew more and more pressing. At first I looked for answers in science, until I understood that it is a tool for other kinds of questions. Then a long practice began: meditation, training the mind, dissolving beliefs and assumptions.

I’m learning coaching under the guidance of experienced coaches and working toward ICF certification. I openly run coaching sessions as a learner, not yet as a certified coach. In the Coaching Zone I describe what coaching is to me and where its effectiveness comes from.

Why I do this

This space is three things at once. Education, because I share what I know about the mind. Support through change, because the questions and exercises help free the mind from what constricts it. And art, because not everything can be said directly.

The art of thinking is everything you do with your head: you quiet it, you look at it, you ask how you know what you know, and you see how one thought holds up another.

Some of these thoughts are mine, some come from the people and traditions that shaped me. Where possible, I credit what comes from where, so that you can check it yourself and reach the source.

What delights me most is the moment someone looks at their own thought from the side for the first time and sees that they don’t have to believe it. I’ve already walked part of this road. I’m glad to walk the next stretch with someone.

What I sell here

This space is also the way I want to communicate with you. I don’t sell knowledge here. The posts, meditations and tools created here are for everyone. I sell my time, because it’s the most precious thing I have to sell. So I invite you to a consultation: a conversation, or asking questions together.

For now the consultations are free, and I’ll write clearly about paid forms before they appear. Want to talk? Visit the Consultations page.

What this space is not

It is not therapy or medical advice.

It does not replace a doctor or psychologist.

It does not promise enlightenment, because it can’t be given to anyone. Through training in thinking I try to help free the mind and give it room to breathe, so that it can return to balance on its own.

How to read

This content may stir things up. Read slowly, one question at a time. If it gets too heavy, stop and come back another time.

There is also Sit With This — short sentences to stay with in silence. One at a time, without hurry.

And when you just want to breathe, visit Serenity — a small zone of lightness, with no tasks and no goal.