Simmo
Simpson

I didn't arrive at this work through a tidy career path. I arrived through lived experience of the problem itself. Through a decade of solo travel, dozens of city moves, and more fresh starts than I can count, I experienced firsthand what it feels like to be surrounded by people and still profoundly alone. Loneliness wasn't an abstract concept for me. It was a regular companion.

But somewhere in that searching, I made a discovery that changed everything: connection is a learnable skill. Not a personality trait you're born with, not luck, not chemistry. A set of practices, capacities, and ways of being that can be deliberately cultivated. I became obsessed with understanding how.

I trained in Authentic Relating, Nonviolent Communication, somatic awareness, and applied rationality. I completed two 10-day silent meditation retreats. I studied attachment theory, conflict repair, and the conditions under which people genuinely open to each other. I ran workshops from my rooftop in Taipei to company retreats at startups in Boston. I lived in intentional communities across four continents, watching up close what makes groups thrive or slowly fracture.

Over time my focus shifted from personal connection to relational architecture at scale: what structures, practices and protocols make it possible for a whole group, not just two people, to find real harmony, depth and synergy together? That question is what gave rise to the Relational OS.

Today I bring nearly a decade of this work to communities, residencies, retreats and organisations. As a coach I work with individuals navigating their own relational landscape. And I'm still learning: still living in communities, still running workshops, still finding new edges in this endlessly rich territory.