Thirty years of work, written down and handed to you.

The founder

Krista

Krista is the founder of Dreaming In Real Life and the sole author of the body of work behind it. She has spent nearly thirty years studying human behavior in practice rather than in theory, developing the frameworks, curricula and teaching methods that became DIRL.

Her work started early. She was teaching and counseling her peers before she left school, and she formalized the practice in 2001. Through the 2000s she taught workshops, wrote continuously, and worked one to one with people on the specific problems in front of them. She kept the record. Thirty years of writing, teaching, lesson material and case work sit underneath the program.

She is a published writer who has spent her career translating what she learned into material other people can use. Alongside the behavioral work she has built and shipped software for twenty five years, which is why DIRL exists as a working system rather than another manuscript.

• Founder and sole author of the DIRL body of work.
• Nearly thirty years developing behavioral frameworks and curricula in practice.
• Teaching workshops and coaching individuals since 2001.
• Published writer, and a systems architect with more than forty trademarks on file.
• Bachelor of Arts in Visual Communications, specializing in multimedia and web design.