Let us build bright bonfires on bare mountaintops, summoning a world of kindness and creativity, love, abundance, and grace.

Let us cultivate intelligent hearts and generous minds.

Let us tell stories that transform our lives and welcome our fondest dreams into the waking world.

About Thomas

An advocate of heart-led critical thinking and transformative storytelling, Thomas Bell is a writer, speaker, facilitator, consultant, performing artist, and adventure athlete.

He believes in thinking deeply, carefully, critically, and well. And he believes that logic and reason are at best half of what good thinking requires. Love and its consequent habits of heart — serenity, curiosity, wonder, passion, play — nurture our most meaningful, valuable, world-changing ideas.

Yet ideas alone are inert, no matter how insightful and innovative they may be. Stories are the songs to which our dreams learn to dance, the breath that brings our best ideas to life. We must craft them and tell them as boldly as we dare and always with the greatest of care.

Such is how Thomas has tried to live his life thus far: thinking deeply, loving generously, and telling stories well. Drawn forward by a vision of a kinder, more joyful, abundant, and compassionate world, he inspires, guides, and celebrates others in doing the same.

What’s Your Story?

Meditations and Mindsets

Let Love Lead

Do you want to create a life of joyful work and authentic abundance? Build beyond your bank balance when you let love lead the way.

Let Love Lead

Habits of Heart

How can compassionate critical thinking nurture your best ideas? Learn how loving habits of heart can expand your mind and change your life.

Heed Your Heart

The Story of Your Life

The stories we tell about the lives we lead can weave our fondest dreams into our waking world. Rewrite your story to transform your life.

Tell Your Story

“Our stories are the songs to which our dreams learn to dance. Tell the story of your life as boldly as you dare, always with your heart’s full compassion and your mind’s greatest care.” — Thomas Bell

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When Love Leads the Way

“Landscapes,” with Louise Runyon
Camping in Cloudland Canyon
Aerial Dance Inversion
Spartan Race (2022)
“Persephone’s Fall,” Rule of 3
Decatur Book Festival
“Chairs,” with Louise Runyon
Climbing Tree on St. Simon Island
“Iron & Steel,” Crossover Movements Arts
“Small Mouth Sounds,” Burning Bones Physical Theatre
Summit of El Capitan
“Small Mouth Sounds,” Burning Bones Physical Theatre

Curious?

Does your heart long for a more loving way to lead your life with joyful abundance? Do you want to tell a more meaningful story that transforms your life?

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