CouRSES

SACRED CONNECTION

Tending the wound of separation

COMING Winter 2025-2026

This Class is for you iF. . .

~ You are a therapist, healer, practitioner or a human on a deep growth journey

~ You wish to support those you serve (and yourself) through a liberation-focused lens that honors Indigeneity, Spirit-based knowing and healing and the Wisdom of the other-than human world

~ You want to thoroughly understand attachment beyond the conventional Western model

~ You want tools for assisting with the mental health, addiction, and environmental crisis that we face as a species

~ You feel alone and isolated in the face of these crises and wish to connect with a community of people who will “get” IT and YOU

~ You understand that something has to shift in a deep way if we are going to make it as a species

~ You have a deep knowing that there is guidance and assistance that we haven’t quite tapped into

~ You are attracted to, deeply moved by, and/or curious about the power of ritual

~ You are ready to start the year in a state of greater connection to your wisdom, to Spirit, to Ancestors, to guides, to community of like-minded folx, and are wanting to usher in deep healing into your life and your lineage.

ON THE SACRED CONNECTION

So many of us feel restless and anxious in relationship to others and in relationship to ourselves. So many of us struggle with a feeling of incompleteness that might translate as a sense of dissatisfaction or restlessness. This can be referred to as an "attachment void" - a part of ourselves that we attempt to fill with relationships, sex, food, substances, work, constant sound, activity, distractions, shopping, acquiring ... The list goes on.

Attachment theory tells us that our personal and collective anxiety can be traced back to ruptures that occurred in early childhood. While there is indisputable truth to this, it is possible that our anxiety runs even deeper and further than our childhood attachment wounds. For most of us, attachment ruptures have been centuries in the making as our cultures of origin suffered the disconnection that came with the disruption of indigenous ways of coexistence in which we were part of larger systems such as spiritual sources, Nature, ancestral guidance, and tribal/village life. Instead of being in reciprocity and connection with these systems that supported us as part of the larger web of existence, we are depleted by the patriarchal, colonial, capitalist systems we are a part of that are rooted in fragmentation and disconnection.

This course will provide us with a deeper understanding of the source of modern existential human suffering, while providing us with tools and practices for deeper connection with Mother Nature, Elemental Forces, the unseen world, and our Ancestral Guides. It moves us way beyond Western models of mental health and wellness by showing us a glimpse of what’s possible in terms of our wholeness.

  • 8 Weekly Modules

    5 live Calls - Mondays 6pm - 7:30 PM PST

    PDF Workbook included

  • This program is offered on a sliding scale:

    Please refer to the Green Bottle Sliding Scale for help in assessing your financial ability.

    True Cost: $429

    Middle Cost: $329

    Bottom Cost: $229

  • MODULE 1

    ~ The Original Wound

    ~ The Paradigm of the Divine Feminine

    MODULE 2

    ~ The Rise of the Patriarchy and Patriarchal Paradigm

    ~ The colonization of Europe and subsequently the World

    MODULE 3

    ~ The trauma of colonization

    ~ Three types of trauma - Trauma overview

    MODULE 4

    ~ Overview of Western Attachment Model

    ~ Indigenous Attachment Model (c)

    ~ The Attachment Void

    MODULE 5

    ~ Ancestral Healing

    ~ Grief, Grieving, and Ritual

    MODULE 6

    ~ Ecocentric VS Ego Centric Model

    ~ Grief, Grieving, and Ritual

    MODULE 7

    ~ Elderhood VS Olderhood

    ~ Exploring the Pathways for Reconnection

    MODULE 8

    ~ The Pathways for Reconnection (Cont’d)

    ~ Creating the Modern Village

MeSTIZ(E)

Finding belonging as mixed-race folx

Course Launch: October 31, 2025
Live Zoom Gatherings: November 9 & 16, 23, 30 @ 10 AM - 11:30 PST

REGISTRATION OPENS: October 1, 2025

REGISTRATION CLOSED: October 30, 2025

FROM WHERE WE COME TO WHERE WE ARE

Those of us that are mixed-race are quickly becoming the Global Majority. Mixed-race folx often know the struggle to find self, place, and belonging not only in white supremacist systems, but also within our own racial identities and cultures.  We are the children of those displaced by the ravages of colonization, slavery, war, and often the inherited poverty left by these very same forces. Often we are ethnically rich and culturally poor. What if we could connect to the richness of a healthy ancestral heritage by working through the woundedness and by getting to know belonging within our identities.

This course is for anyone who relates to this experience and wants to unpack the many layers that impact those of us with mixed-race identities as well explore pathways toward finding belonging. We will come together to form the modern village, forge connection with one another, and drop into an exploration around the complexity of identity for folx with mixed-race backgrounds. 

A lot of mixed-race folx don’t feel that they are enough of anything to fit in anywhere. I’m not Black enough, Indigenous enough, Mexican enough, Asian enough… and yet we're not white.

We are asked again and again, “What are you?”

I’m a human being, that’s what I am. But is there more?

On THe WORD “MeSTIZ(e)”

Mestizo/a is a specific term in Spanish for a Spanish and Indigenous mixed-race person. It happens to be a word that describes the state of being a mixed-race person.

There is no general word for this in English, except perhaps terms that describe different degrees of mixed Black and White ancestry (often derogatory).

While “race” is a colonial construct, this course is for ANY person who identifies as mixed-race. We use the “E” instead of the gendered vowels (a) and (o) in respect of nonbinary folx.

  • 4 Modules

    4 live Calls - Sundays 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PST

    PDF Workbook included

  • This program is offered on a sliding scale:

    Please refer to the Green Bottle Sliding Scale for help in assessing your financial ability.

    True Cost: $218

    Middle Cost: $118

    Bottom Cost: $68

  • MODULE 1

    ~ Indigenous Attachment Model

    ~ Attachment principles

    ~ Impact of Ruptures (Mental, Spiritual, Physical, Environmental)

    ~ Finding Belonging (Seen and Unseen)

    MODULE 2

    ~ Colonization Trauma - In different continents

    • How “indigeneity” is defined or seen in different countries, cultures, continents

    • Different origins/lineages lumped together as one (in america)

    • We all hold that trauma in diff ways, loss of lineages is experienced differently, and more acutely by some than others, not a one size fits all approach

    ~ Acculturation- Loss of language, song, story, culture

    ~ Whiteness and proximity to Whiteness

    ~ Centering Black Liberation

    MODULE 3

    ~ Internalized Racism

    ~ Internalized objectification/sexuality

    ~ Healing from internalized oppression

    MODULE 4

    ~ The pathways

    ~ Ancestral practice

    ~ Nature

    ~ The Body - The Sacred “Yes” and the Sacred “No”

    ~ Indigeneity without appropriation (Making our way back to Place and Land)

    ~ Creating the Modern Village

Judith Faustima, LMFT, Co-Facilitator

Judith (She/Her/Li) will be co-facilitating the Sacred Connection Course. Judith is an Afro-Haitian American, female identifying, cis-gender, queer licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She currently resides in the lands of the Northern Paiutes, the Wascos, and the Warm Springs bands. Judith has gained a lot of experience in the field of mental health and continues to challenge her learning and education through seeking support in decolonizing mental health and the way she provides services, creates, teaches and supervises. She is also a university faculty member and is currently a doctoral candidate in a Marriage and Family Doctorate program specializing in program development. Judith has years of experience working with outpatient clients through her private practice, providing clinical supervision for mental health professionals seeking licensure, and working in Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare Programs as a Nature-based therapist and Family Program Manager for parents with adolescents in residential treatment. Judith also Program Operations Director at Liberation Pathways Healing Space, a BIPOC-led nonprofit organization serving BIPOC, LBTQIA2S+ and marginalized communities. You can contact Judith through her practice at Triune Health & Wellness.

​Please contact me for additional information or to schedule a free 20-minute discovery call.