A framework for understanding ourselves, the world around us, and knowledge itself
We believe we will have a much more robust, rich, and true understanding of history and culture if we all take on the roles of record keepers, historians, and cultural authors.
It is vital that we start to include more female, spirit-and-indigenous-led knowledge in our academic and educational frameworks to gain a greater understanding of ourselves, and the world we are in.
Living Research is an embodied, sensorial and responsible approach to knowledge gathering.
It is a methodology, guide and compass to our work at Soul Seed Gathering where we engage with ancestral, Indigenous, and cultural knowledge as it engages with us also.
No knowledge remains dead to a page and separate from us but becomes a field we dance within.
Join our Introduction to Living Research through the lens of dreams.
How do you research with dreams?
Dreams may be the focus of your research, or the experiences you become conscious of, while researching your subject matter.
In this short course, we explore dreams and dreaming practices, through a cross-cultural lens. Looking to societies ‘in which accounts of dreams and their interpretation are a normal process of interaction and decision-making.’ - Jean A Guy Goulet, Doctor of Philosophy & Professor of Anthropology.
Our Signature Living Research Program is an online, immersive self-led course and container, that will shift your relationship with knowledge, and transform your approach to research and self-inquiry.
We have been given an approach to research that focuses solely on cognition and intellectual development, while ignoring our other senses, embodied understanding, and relationships in an inter-connected world.
To live the research is to allow ourselves to become immersed in, and changed by, what we are learning – and to remain conscious and aware of that process as it’s happening. While we also build awareness and responsibility, as what we seek to understand will itself be changed by our observation and engagement with it.
This is for students, leaders, change-makers and creatives looking to engage with research, learning and ideas, with new and ancient innovative tools to do so.
Our next cohort opens in June 2025.
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We consistently embrace the transformative journey of research, learning, and experience, recognizing the profound impact it has on us, our work and the world.
In our interactions with various countries, places, and people, we consciously contribute with the intent to create postive change.
When we actively acknowledge our influence, take accountability and responsibility for how we engage, we unlock new dimensions of ourselves, our understanding of the places we explore and the subjects we encounter.
When we approach education with heightened awareness, deep listening, and attunement, we can prepare ourselves to receive and work with knowledge and wisdom in profound ways. Our traditional education systems often fall short in fostering authentic and reciprocal connections.
At each chapter of Soul Seed Gathering we've observed that true depth can be missed when distractions, surface-level thinking, or tourist expectations can interfere with significant the experiences held by wise elders.
The key lies in humbling ourselves, releasing expectations, and becoming highly attuned through all our senses. Knowledge, stories, and the richness of ancestral cultures cannot be demanded; they unfold when we surrender and open ourselves to a non-linear process.
Our approach to research and knowledge gathering acknowledges the subjective, relational, interconnected, and changeable nature of everything. We understand that we don't exist in a static, sterile world, and that we are all intricately connected to the subjects we seek to understand.
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Duration: You receive 6 months access to this program upon signing up.
Format: Self-study written and multimedia materials, with recorded calls from our live cohort.
+ join our Living the Story community for monthly live calls
Enquire: soulseedgathering@gmail.com
As with all of our offerings, this program is an organic, collaborative experience. We invite active participation and the awareness that we all play a key role in the cohort we become a part of.
Rather than a passive receiving of information and knowledge, you are called to fully live, embody and apply all that you are learning - to then share with us in return as part of a living conversation.
Application Process: We invite you to submit a research or storytelling proposal outline, to carry with you through the process. To then contribute the piece at the end of the program to receive your certification of completion.
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Modules:
Context + Introduction
Learning about ourselves - subjective / objective
Living Territories Part 1
Living Territories Part 2
Ancestral Knowledge
Dreams
Sound
Taste
Scent
Vision
Voice
Language and Form
Body
Cognition
Feeling & Touch
Energy & Spirit
Exra-Sensory Perceptions
Relationships
Culture
Coming Full Circle
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Engagement with a methodology that will transform how you engage with your work, life and knowledge itself.
Tools for ideation and collaboration with your many forms of intelligence.
Evolution from any limits, constructs or constraints experienced in traditional Western education systems.
Connection in our community space to contribute and explore your own and many others different perspectives.
A greater consciousness and embodied approach to receiving and working with knowledge.
A deep connection to your life, the greater world, and all it includes.
The invitation to be a life-long member of our community as a Living Researcher, to stay engaged, and collaborating with us.
The invitation to join our journeys and sacred travel experiences as a Living Researcher, with first access and special discount to our events.
Conscious awareness of your impact, of who you are in the world, and of what is possible - unearthing your gifts for all.
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Our research spans time, space, cultures and wisdom traditions with an aim to bring the deep feminine and earth-based knowledge ways to historical significance and cultural relevance.
It is an exploration that invites us to heal the broken threads of our Indigenous ancestry, and telling of history, for a better sense of who we are, where we come from, and where we can go next.
We work with the following research themes in our Living Research Community:
Deep feminine
To fill the gaps in our understanding of who we are, where we have come from and to look at where we can go next.
We place a focus on ‘women’s spheres of knowledge’ simply because it has long been ignored, discarded and dismissed in our collective narrative, telling of history and shared sense-making.
We are missing the guidance of elder wisdom in western society. At Soul Seed Gathering we understand that there is a lot to gain in the respect and acknowledgement of unbroken lineages of knowledge.
Cultural exchange rooted in elder wisdom fosters a richer humanity, empathy and appreciation to access deeper forms of change.
Learning with the communities and civilizations that have placed, and are placing, Mother Earth and Mothers at the center.
We understand that there is a deep intelligence to this way of organizing that needs to be brought into our current consciousness and way of organizing for us all and our future generations to thrive.
Indigenous ancient and future technologies are built with a system of intention, care, intelligence, rites of passage, wisdom and community governance built in to support the whole.
We are missing these key components in our modern technologies - many that have not been designed or cultivated to weave with our lives for greater balance and harmony, wisdom and intelligence.
Explore these research themes, with the opportunity to contribute with your own ancestral exploration and unique interaction with these topics, inside of our Ancient Future Library - the Soul Seed House.
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“The place where you are born is very important - the Apus and ñustas give you the Sami life force energy needed in times of crisis.”
Maria Apaza, of the Q’ero Nation recorded by Living Researcher Gabriela Del Mar
Guidance woven into the Living Research program