Meet Our Family
Finding Our Way Together, in Every Curve
We strive and thrive in sustainability and work with nature instead of against it. We live everyday life as individuals spread across the map but come together within a community and as a family to create common goals and turn others' visions into a sustainable and empowering future. Most of our paths began with complex thoughts and questions but were rooted in one very similar mission, how to create a more sustainable future and quit depleting our natural resources. To bring back empowerment to the individual, the family, and the community. To create a shared path and to find our way back to a more ancient and primitive new tomorrow.
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Through Traveling Tholos we have been able to create a space that helps the dreamer to navigate the road through red tape, the overwhelming how-to's, and the journey back to their well-deserved wild. We offer guidance, insight, design assistance, full-build teams, teaching/training, technical/project support, and an array of other customized needs for your dusty dreams. Together we are Traveling Tholos (Traveling Domes)!
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Our Story
Michelle and Brandon met at Cal-Earth back in 2017 and began realizing their shared passion and drive for building with more sustainable mediums. They have both been long-time senior instructors, teaching workshops, and long-term programs for the institute. Michelle is also the current Program Director. Their realizations soon manifested into consulting work, designs (staying up by a fire all night dreaming up the endless possibilities), and private builds...truth be told long before the idea of Traveling Tholos was seeded. As the pair began co-creating on builds for private clients...Traveling Tholos was born from necessity and synchronicity. As time went by Michelle and Brandon realized they needed more...more help...more community...more family. This is when they began seeking others who came to Cal-Earth to seek the same answers to impossible questions.
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This is how the entire "Family Crew" was born. As each one of our complex thoughts and questions evolved, this is where the real alchemy began...it aligned us all together and our separate paths fused at one very special place...that is The Cal-Earth Institute of Earth Art and Architecture. Starting all of our journeys at different times but allowing us to be on time with one another and the future of Traveling Tholos. One by one...each individual became a part of a family and a community was created.
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