Alex is the founding visionary of the Brilliant Contact Community™ network of holistic, land-based communities and is currently developing community and retreat facilities on two properties in the California wine country and has acquired a Toronto property as the Canadian home for the Collective for Healing, Expressive, and Consciousness Arts (CHECA)™.

Alex has 5 university degrees, 4 of those from the University of Toronto, and holds a Canadian CPA designation as a professional accountant. Alex began his formal workshop facilitation training as an intern at the age of 22, has keynoted major conferences, and organized experiential workshops periodically over a 5-year period in the Caribbean.

Communicadance™/Chemistry in Motion™, a 12-class series on contact improvisation and communication, takes place regularly in Toronto. A full description is available at: https://chemistryinmotion.eventbrite.com - California and other events are listed as they are planned at: https://www.brilliance.org 

Significant teachers

Nancy Stark Smith, Alyssa Lynes, Ray Chung, Nita Little, Steve Paxton, Martin Keogh, Scott Wells, Shel Wagner Rasch, Angie Hauser, Kirstie Simson, Stefan Fabry, Allen and Karen Kaeja, Robert Anderson, Tara Brandel, Mark Koenig, Stephanie Cohen, Karl Frost, Benno Voorham, Moti Zimmerman, Tracy Vogel, Aaron Jessop, Vitali Kononov, Rosemary Hannon, Peter Ryan, Peter Bingham, Sean Seward, Joseph Sengco, Karen Nelson, John Dowell, Ralf Jaroschinski , and Brenton Cheng.