Hi! 👋 I’m Catherine Woodiwiss. Thanks for visiting.

I’m a Journalist, Experience architect, and Compulsive meaning-injector.

I work in the gaps between disciplines — between story and space, structure and improvisation. I create scaffolding for individuals, teams, and networks to move from "wouldn't it be cool, if?" to a thing that actually happens.

I'm always aiming for meaning, imagination, and devotion — helping people come more creatively alive to themselves and the world.

Currently:

Producing theatrical performances and hosting salons, film nights, and existential field games in Austin (get on the invite list)

Building rites-of-passage programs for purpose — with scientists, artists, and philosophers — in the US, UK, Canada, France, & the Netherlands (for young people: Liminal Learning; for healing from loss: The Social Healing Project; for reimagining capital: Coralus).

Convening cross-disciplinary experts and devoted amateurs for conversations that actually go somewhere (book a consult)

Writing a Substack about beauty and belonging at the end of the world (read more).

Elsewhere:

🎙️ I was recently featured on Austin Community Capital, talking about hosting gatherings for delight & purpose — watch or listen here.

My work has appeared in The Atlantic, Texas Monthly, and The New York Times, and been supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Templeton Foundation, SXSW, and USAID. I was once cited by both David Brooks and Burning Man, which feels about right.

If you're a multidisciplinary, improvisational yes-and type — say hi!

Catherine

catherine.h.woodiwiss@gmail.com

@chwoodiwiss