Robyn currently lives with her family on a food-sovereign homestead based within a peasant village in rural Transylvania close to where one strain of her ancestors came from. Her current passion is in weaving together the community of local artists, upholders of traditional knowledge and agriculturalists. She also enjoys literal spinning and weaving - both wool and words.
With her life partner, she began Provision Transylvania , a village-based project with the mission: “Creating living and learning opportunities which contribute to health and wellbeing for planet and people.” From within this context of connection to natural cycles of life, reduced consumption, and growing and wildcrafting food as medicine, she shares Nonviolent Communication (NVC) with individuals and groups, both online and in person, on the grounds of Provision. Robyn’s mission for these sessions is to “Re-member and heal the past, resonate with present needs, and to orient toward a more resilient future.”
Throughout her lifetime, Robyn has been practicing yoga and music. These led her to a B.A. in music from Reed College and double master’s degrees from Naropa University in the disciplines of Transpersonal Counselling Psychology and Music Therapy. She was also certified as a Gestalt therapist and as a yoga and meditation instructor.
After several Zen Meditation retreats inside of prisons, she chose to accept employment as a counselor for a mental hospital housed within a women’s prison. Here she could share space and stories with many women of all ages and cultural backgrounds. Themes of intergenerational oppression, sexual trauma, drug addiction, and abuses of all kinds were omnipresent. This is where her political education began in earnest regarding the patriarchal domination systems that we live within. This was a great catalyst for the work that she now does to live system change in all ways possible, beginning from the ground of her own life within a human body, within a family system(s), within a local community of small-scale peasant farmers, and helping to support systems to return land from private ownership to common stewardship.
Robyn works closely with a number of NGOs. With her life partner Lars, she is co-founder of Provision Transylvania. Since 2019, she has served as board member and currently as vice-president in ACNV , the Romanian NVC association. She also works closely with a number of local organizations including ALPA (Acces la Pamant pentru Agroecologie), an access-to-land network project designed to support sustainable agriculture and biodiversity.
With NVC, Robyn has found several practices that have helped her to ground her experience of connecting with people over cultural divides, including designing ways to offer empathy to our Ancestors, inviting music to help us connect and heal, and remembering needs, including subsistence needs that may be met with a reverent orientation towards the more-than-human world. Lately she has become fascinated with the inter-relationships within complex systems, which led her to study Warm Data with Nora Bateson.
In 2025, Robyn become a Warm Data Host. She also traveled to Northern India to Ladakh as a supported guest participant in the Local Futures Summit.
Inspired by teachers such as Nora Bateson, Vandana Shiva, Helena Norbert-Hodge, Satish Kumar, Ethan Hughes, Dominic Barter, Miki Kashtan, Sarah Peyton, Gayano Shaw, Lorna Richie, Carl Plesner, and many others, Robyn dreams of continuing to find ways to support and connect people from different lands, languages, movements, and ideologies in ways that are mutually life-enriching, and to contribute to building ever-more-inclusive human systems focused on Earth Democracy and the Planetary Satyagraha for Life.