Deep Space is hosted by Ashley King and David Reed, longtime friends and collaborators who have been exploring the terrain of human connection together for many years.
Both Ashley and David are seasoned facilitators of relational mindfulness practices - work that invites people out of performance and into presence, out of habit and into contact, and into a deeper experience of themselves and one another.
Ashley brings nearly two decades of experience as a somatic psychotherapist, drawing from traditions that honor the intelligence of the body, the power of emotional truth, and the poetics of embodied relationship. Her work weaves together mindfulness, relational depth, and an artful sensitivity to what is quietly alive beneath the surface. She is the founder of Psychoalchemy, and more recently has begun offering her work as a certified Biodanza instructor to Philadelphia.
David has spent over twenty years designing and leading learning experiences focused on meaning, relationship, and human flourishing, working across educational, organizational, and community contexts. His work centers on creating conditions where people can move beyond small talk into authenticity, courage, and genuine encounter. He is a certified Appreciative Inquiry practitioner and a consulting partner for the Corporation for Positive Change.
Before the pandemic, Ashley and David co-hosted Deep Space gatherings that were known for their special flavor of warmth, depth, and sense of ease -spaces where strangers became human with one another, and something unexpectedly beautiful often emerged. They are delighted to be bringing this work back, together, in service of connection that is honest, alive, and deeply human.
