The Living Research Program
6 Month Research Exploration and Sensory Development.
Sense your living thread weaving with all other threads.
Explore intelligence through scent, sound, land and body.
Dream the land and Her story.
Enter into cosmologies and worlds different to your own to strengthen your own knowledge and wisdom.
Become a ethical knowledge contributor.
Reawaken everything you were trained to numb.
We are here to develop our Ways of Knowing patterns from deep time, strengthened and brought forward for this time.
Applications open to waitlist only. We start in November.
{ Year Call Schedule }
All calls 4th Fridays from 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. PST // 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm GMT unless otherwise noted.
November: 13th
December: 11th
January: 8th
February: 12th
March: 12th
April: 9th
~ May & June: Submission Calls Check-in’s TBC
We were taught to learn with our minds, while cut off from the living world we all emanate…
First, and foremost, you are a researcher of your own experience of life, and all that you come across…
As a Living Researcher you are invited to let go of the objective observer stance and accept your subjective humanity and influence on this world.
By owning our subjectivity we can open up the field of possibility, while restoring roots in land and earth-based thinking to remain grounded and true.
Each month we develop our unique research focus through deep time patterns of sensory learning, connection and development.
This is a journey of reconnecting to our roots, our ancestral memory and learning with cultures across the world immersed in deep time intelligence, feeling, sensing, and working with the land, her story and our own journey of developing a research focus as a contribution for this time.
The Living Research Program is an invitation to actively engage with learning, life and the wonder of this world. A degree program that invites all of who you are.
"To make sense is to enliven the senses. A story that makes sense is one that stirs the senses from their slumber, one that opens the eyes and the ears to their real surroundings, tuning the tongue to the actual tastes in the air and sending chills of recognition along the surface of the skin. To make sense is to release the body from the constraints imposed by outworn ways of speaking, and hence to renew and rejuvenate one's felt awareness of the world. It is to make the senses wake up to where they are."
– David Abram, Spell of the Sensuous
{ Inside the Living Research Program }
We work together as living researchers remembering how to engage with all our senses, speak with the land and become cultural builders and weavers. We are restoring the integrity, vitality and responsibility of research to contribute meaning for this world.
This is a space to develop a research focus with a profound program of self study materials, 2x monthly calls and a community of support.
{ WHAT’S INSIDE }
→ Monthly Classes & Monthly Research Focus development
→ Immersive and In-depth Self-Study Modules
→ Bonus: Research with Dreams full course
→ Bundle option includes: Living Research Program, The Living The Story Membership + Access to Soul Bloom Magazine Substack subscription
Course Modules:
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Welcome to the Living Research Program
Why Living Research? - The Story of this Process & it’s Development
Collective and Personal Intentions & Aims
Methods of Research, Definition of Research & An Invitation
Learning About Ourselves: The First Subject, Understanding Consciousness & Objective versus Subjective
Learning About Ourselves: Who Are You? Shared Experiences
Your Research Focus
The Ceremony of Research: a Guide
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Living Territories: Connected to Place & Where You Were Born
Living Territories: Survival & Thriving
Living Territories: Memories Embedded into Land & Songlines
Living Territories: Resilience, Adaptation & Slowing Down
Living Territories: Custodial Species, Ancient Technologies & Nomadic Wisdom
Living Territories: Nature Spirits & Sacred Geography
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Sound: Listening and Hearing, The Environmental Orchestra, Music, Your Brain and Sound
Taste: Development of Taste, Spectrum of Taste, Adaptation to Survival. Your Life in Taste, Geography, Spirit Awareness, Sound & Taste
Scent: First Sense, Memory, Description by Association, Hormonal Connections, Artificial and Loss of Smell affects. Instinct.
Vision: Seeing Things As They Are, Cultural Shaping, Opening Perception, Altered States, We See What We Know, Aesthetics, Beauty, Healing
Feeling / Touch: Sensory Touch, Body Awareness, Emotional Patterns, Release and Expression, Cultural Differences, Pain Communication, Rites of Passage, Boundaries and Consent, Decolonization and Feelings.
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Cognition: Are You Thinking Your Own Thoughts? Interconnectivity of body, emotions and mind. Overthinking, Circular Thinking, Collective Intelligence, Cognitive Influences, Mental Patterns.
Voice: Shaped by Ancestry, Culture and Experience. Deep versus Shallow voice, Traumatic Impact & Natural Voice. Expressive and Relational. Power of Prayer. Power of Song. Truthfulness/ Sacred Speech. Storytelling.
Body: Adaptations to Place. Conscious Awareness, Movement Practices. Body as a Vessel. Body Communication. Body Memory. Spirit with Body. Shapeshifting.
Language & Form: What We Speak Creates Form; Why Indigenous Languages Matter. Becoming Fully Human. Language Shaping Thinking. Alphabet & the Goddess. Sacred Instructions.
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Energy & Spirit: Earth’s Energy. Cosmology. Personal Experience. Science of Presence. Spirit. Darker Energies. Creating with Intention. Experiences within Territories. Indigenous Cosmovisions.
Extra-Sensory: Ancient Ways of Knowing. Intuition. Ideas of Crazy. Non-Linear Knowledge - Rational vs. Spiritual. Morphic Resonance. Indigenous Mastery Navigating Spiritual Realms. Plant Medicine. Subtle Sensitivity. Web of Relations.
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Relationships & Culture Building: Impact on Identity, First Home - the Womb. Web of Relations. Cultural Differences. Community Care.Radical Love. Money.
Ancestral Knowledge: Feminine Return. Ways of Knowing. Ancestral Stories. Elders. Sacred Story. Ancestral Challenges as Paths of Healing. Ritual and Ceremony.
Dreams: Portals for Healing, Ancestral Connection and Guidance. Lucid Dreaming out of Context. Cultural Beliefs and Reality. Cosmological Tools and Worldbuilding. Importance of Community & Translation of Dreams.
Full Circle: Our Research Contribition.
We’re not looking for clearly defined answers to questions…But more so, to live our questions.
At this time, it’s important to understand frameworks and ideologies, perspectives and experiences, and to keep looking beyond them, to not become boxed in.
Our aim is to remain curious to the voices and perspectives that are not currently mainstream, popular and/or fully understood or known. This is a constantly shifting landscape.
When there so much information available online, we are desperately in need of embodiment and truly living the research offline in our every day lives. This means stepping out of the perceived safety of our minds and homes, and letting our learning experiences become ‘messy’ and less definable.
Our journey with Soul Seed Gathering,
has been a process of allowing ourselves to be changed by knowledge and greater awareness of history, herstory or simply story.
While also experiencing ourselves being changed by the presence of certain elders, wisdom keepers and communities who live differently to our own upbringing and society
— a change that is difficult to articulate or, define but is pronounced and unmistakable.
This research process is one we can speak to and share, but more so is to be experienced and lived by you alongside us also.
We invite everyone to record their experiences with us as a unique lens, viewpoint and sense of perspective of any given moment - this way we form a richer, deeper, more whole sense of the world together.
"All humans evolved within complex, land-based cultures over deep time to develop a brain with the capacity for over one hundred trillion neural connections, of which we now use only a tiny fraction. Most of us have been displaced from those cultures of origin, a global diaspora of refugees severed not only from land but from the sheer genius that comes from living in symbiotic relation to it."
– Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk
Enrich your own research and learning process.
We invite you to immerse into our Living Research methodology to explore a research focus such as:
Trace your ancestral roots to a time when they were immersed in the land. Choose a focus such a food, weaving, music or language and how it shaped worldview.
The oral history and mythology woven into the lands you were raised in, visit or, live in, and how that shapes your knowing, seeing and living.
Visit another culture and territory and record your personal experience and learning through all your senses.
*apply with your interests and ideas and we will work together to develop and hone them.
You are no longer a passive participant consuming more information for your mind to process.
Reclaim your sensuous intelligence rooted to land and deep time, in your body and the connected web of life.
We invite you to join us on a research journey where all of you matters — your eco-system, dreams, heart, belly, spirit, mind, and bone deep knowing.
Gather your seeds of soul memory and plant them for new possibilities to grow.
The roots of research were in learning not only how to survive but to thrive.
The first sensory experience we have is in the womb and then, the living territories we find ourselves in - where we live, where we travel to, and where we were born and raised. We’re exploring how these lands shape, affect us and communicate with us.
‘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, the highest spiritual authority in the Q’ero Nation in Peru
Together, we are holding space for the knowledge and wisdom that need to be heard, felt and embodied again at this time.
Felt with every cell in our body…
Not sapped dry by the need to compartmentalize, control and dissect into academic legitimacy, the kind that creates a colonial chokehold over each of our souls knowing.
Join us on this academic journey into ethical living research, and deep time intelligence.
"It's been said that the Mother Earth was the first Indigenous Woman. After all, she is the original life giver, the first ancestor of us all- from microscopic single celled organisms, to colossal prehistoric dinosaurs. Her blood our fresh water, flows like so many veins and capillaries, forming rivers and tributaries that sustain us. We evolved to exist in unison, forever linked and connected as relations. We are a part of her, star-dust children of the Sky and Earth. She is the divine feminine, Creator, and Mother. There is no humanity without her."
– Ruth Hopkins, Lakota Sioux
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What You Will Gain:
Tools for research, learning, ideation and collaboration with your many forms of intelligence.
Expanding any limits, constructs or constraints experienced in traditional Western education systems.
Connection to community to contribute and explore your own and others perspectives.
Greater consciousness and embodied approach to receiving and working with knowledge, patterns of learning, wisdom cultivation and responsible contribution.
A deep and alive connection to your life, the world, and knowledge itself.
Become a Living Researcher and develop your research focus.
Conscious awareness of your impact of who you are in the world, unearthing your gifts in research and story.
MEET YOUR GUIDE
Living Researcher, Storyteller & Shamanic Guide
Research came alive for me before I asked it to be. I went from a comfortable seat of a researcher following the breadcrumbs of a seemingly forgotten deep feminine history…
To documenting the voices of female elders and creating a place for their stories and memories of a different way. To be honored with reverence and brought back to shared memory here.
Through meeting with symbols in cloth, carvings in rocks, figurines that didn’t fit within my taught narrative of history, the Grandmothers gaze that stripped me down to my soul, to the territories whispering ‘we called you here, you better be paying attention’… I have been shapeshifting off into the deep end, and yet, for the first time in this life, this world began to make sense to me.
Sense as in: sensing, feeling, instinctively moving me and dreams unraveling truth… my mind has had to play catch up… as I keep asking: did I choose this? Did I ask for any of this? Did I get lost at the last turning of a page and, end up in another world?
By feeling my way I began to gain roots into a deeper connection with this Earth and all Her people.
Remember that:
You and I are special because we are part of something so special here.
From scouring endless books and too many academic papers to count, into living research out in the world that showed me how different a place was in reality. Research that included telepathic learning, teaching lodges within dreams, territories becoming guide books and ceremonies revealing the spiral of time. Sound woo woo? This is what we all know deep within our bones…
Are we nearly there yet?
We have only just begun.
Join me on this adventure.
Find my professional bio here
BEGIN YOUR JOURNEY
WITH EMBODIED SENSORIAL RESEARCH
The Living Research degree program is available to join by application only.
We remain intimate to allow for full focus, immersion and exploration together.
We protect the knowledge bestowed upon us by ensuring your readiness to arrive with presence and, the willingness to develop the integrity needed to meet with Ways of Knowing as we go.
Your active contribution influences the field of work we are in. Therefore, we look forward to learning your interests, intentions and ideas you wish to bring into this process.
Join our waitlist below. Applications open in August to the waitlist and previous participants (living research, research with dreams) only.
We start in November.
FAQ’s
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For leaders, creatives, academics, healers, change-makers who wish to explore:
the understanding of the earth-based roots of your ancestry.
the living stories of the lands you’re from.
the meeting with another culture and territory and your transformation experienced with it.
While being supported through a deeper connection to, and experience of knowledge through all your senses, the lands that inform and shape you and the ways of learning beyond just cognitive reasoning and repetition.
If you’re feeling that there are gaps in your ways of learning, engagement with, and knowledge of history, culture and the world around you. This program can support your own research, creative contributions and storytelling.
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No, this is part of our on-boarding process and can be developed and honed with us.
However, it is a good idea to think about what you want to explore before to support your application.
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Each week you will be able to explore your research focus through the lens of the program.
Each month we will meet on a group call to explore how the research focus has developed, transformed and become enriched.
Upon completing the Living Research Degree Program you will be invited to submit your research focus in the form of an article, recordings or artwork(s) to complete.
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No! We believe we are all innate researchers as human beings.
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Our Living Research methodology offers a sensorial approach to learning, a recognition and respect of ancestral and indigenous knowledge ways, and an invitation to learn about yourself better through the process of researching and learning about the world.
Your experiences of life are valued and honored here.
We are building an academic Institute that no longer ignores the body, our senses, and environment, while respecting the Spirits of ancestors, place and knowledge itself, grounded in academic excellence, rigor, exploration and contribution by you our community and, our network of Indigenous Knowledge Keepers.
Here, each of our ancestors wisdom and intelligence and the indigenous lived experience today is honored as real, meaningful and valuable for this present moment and the future.
There are no simple wrong or right answers, no exams or grading, and no superiority or inferiority complexes as we move from an hierarchical model to a circular.
We invite you to submit a body of work alongside this program and have it as a guiding focus to become an active participant in the process.
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Our doors open November 14th for 6 months of access.
Each week you get access to self-study topics and exploration on our community platform.
You can work with these topics alongside your research focus, and a workbook that you can download or print to support you throughout.
Monthly we will meet in a group call to explore your research topic with the program materials covered so far - these are exploratory conversations without wrong or right answers.
At the closing of the program we invite you to submit an article (‘s), recording (video, audio or animated) or artwork with story that represents the research theme you have explored.
We will have guest teachers throughout - announced closer to our start date.
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Within our on-boarding process we will vote on the best times and days for the group to meet each month. If you have to miss a call, a recording will be sent and a follow-up check-in will be made to see where you are at with it.
If we have people across both hemispheres we will open up two calls.
Additional calls may be added for guest teachers - you will be notified far in advance for when these will take place.
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Yes you will have an opportunity to journey with us into the field and collaborate with one of our partner communities, and territories.
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There are no scholarships at this time but if you are an individual or organization interested in supporting scholarships with us please get in touch!
Join our Waitlist to gain first access and early bird discount.
We offer long payment plans to support you upon application.
If you joined Research with Dreams or, Dreaming World Futures you also get discount and credits to contribute to the Living Research Program.