A Training in Lateral Liberation

This is a time of high polarity.

The need for genuine restoration has far-reaching implications as leaders seek vision and all people seek direction to address the mounting pressure of a system incongruous with the values of the natural world.

This immersive training encourages the “lateral liberation” of consciousness by drawing from the embodied knowledge of Indigenous peoples. Moving people through a personal process of questioning what is the truth and what is simply constructed – effectively rupturing what we “know.” True expression of respect, harmony, inclusion, equity can come from this place.

We will use the 7 medicines that are universal for healing: singing, dancing, storytelling, meditation, laughter, sharing food and connecting to the natural world. 

With deep respect.

“Kim Haxton’s capacity to move deftly from modality to modality (art, bodywork, Ceremony, academic theory, Western psychology) is a skill I have never encountered so fully; she is deeply knowledgeable in each of these areas, is able to use the language of each to translate to the other, and does so in a way that creates wholeness rather than micro-differentiating. Ironically, it is Kim Haxton’s depth of expertise in each of these fields that allows her to create a learning ecology of safety that invites risk, and, therefore, true transformation but was reminded that being seen, being “held” and being led with accountability, compassion and humor — not surprisingly — had therapeutic results on the intellectual, social, psycho-spiritual and physical levels. It became apparent to me that political change must begin in this way in order to succeed. It was an action of the personal-as-political, the political-as-personal, both paradigms as artmaking, both as spiritual, as somatic.”  – Jeanette Platana, past participant

Daily Schedule

A detailed schedule will be available at least 2 weeks in advance of the program. View sample schedule here.