The Living Research Program

6 Month Sensory Research Exploration and Development.

Sense your living thread connected to all other threads.

Dream with the land and her story.

Enter into cosmologies and worlds different to your own.

Become a contributor to the cultural archive for all our future relations.

Reawaken everything you were trained to numb. We are here to develop ethical knowledge and Ways of Knowing preserved, strengthened and brought forward for this time. 

JOIN WAITLIST

Applications open in August to waitlist only. We start in November.

Reclaim your senses rooted to land and deep time memory, in your body and beyond, in the interconnected web.

You are no longer a passive participant consuming more information for your mind to process.

We invite you to join us on a research journey where all of you matters.

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.

We are holding space for the voices, stories and wisdom that need to be heard at this time.

Heard 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.

Course Modules:

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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.

    • 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.

    • 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. The Clair’s. Geomancy. Indigenous Mastery Navigating Spiritual Realms. Plant Medicine. Subtle Sensitivity. Web of Relations.

    • Relationships & Culture Building: Impact on Identity, First Home - the Womb. Web of Relations. Cultural Differences. Community Care.Radical Love. Money.

    • Ancestral Knowledge: Feminine Return. Ceremony of Research. 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.

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What You Will Gain:

  • Engagement with a methodology that will transform how you interact with life and knowledge itself.

  • Tools for ideation and collaboration with your many forms of intelligence.

  • Expanding any limits, constructs or constraints experienced in traditional Western education systems.

  • Connection in our community space to contribute and explore your own and others perspectives.

  • Greater consciousness and embodied approach to receiving and working with wisdom.

  • A deep connection to your life, the world, and all it includes.

  • The invitation to be a member of our community as a Living Researcher during the program, and develop your research focus.

  • The possibility to join our journeys and travel experiences as a Living Researcher.

  • Conscious awareness of your impact of who you are in the world, unearthing your gifts in research.

'I would like to thank the energy we created together, the deepness of the experiences we shared, the vulnerability we allowed ourselves to join the room. Of course, Hannah for creating the space, and creating the methodology, allowing us to connect with aspects that are not so common and not allowed to join the room so often. It's been an interesting journey of reflections, embodiment, memories that were somewhere and we allowed them to come back to give the message we needed to hear again from our body and unconsciousness. I just feel very thankful for the space and the opportunity.'

– Maria Camila Carrascal

COURSE AUTHOR + 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

  • "She provided a safe, nurturing container while inviting me to journey ever deeper into the wild unknown. An artful balance that is rare. This will forever be an experience I treasure, and a key on my life’s path to knowing myself and this planet more intimately."

    Olivia Ashton, private client & Soul Seed Chapter 2 and 3

  • 'The heart of Soul Seeds for me is about self-discovery as we remember another way of being, in touch with deep feminine wisdom that has been largely forgotten – and yet there is a part of us that still knows, and longs to come home again.
It is a nourishing, inspiring, harmonizing and enlightening journey.’

    Brina Stone, Stibrawpa Journey

  • "There are no real words to describe Hannah’s work as words will always seem to lessen the experiences shared with her. It’s a feeling of the deepest love in my heart that I will forever hold, when I think of Hannah and her soul’s work on Earth in these great times."

    Cáit Ní Riain, private client

  • “Just over 2 years ago I discovered Hannah Dyson and her amazing research project Soul Seed Gathering. I was immediately floored by the integrity and alignment within which she works. Hannah sees everyone in their highest light. Stepping into this apprenticeship felt like something that I had been calling in for a long time finally landed. Working with Hannah and her offerings has been a deeply enriching, valuable and important gift to my future self. This work will be with me for a lifetime. I am very grateful to Hannah, not just for all that she has given me, but for all the work that she does on herself and within her communities. I am so honoured to work with her. It has been a dream come true. Thank u Hannah!”

    Abigail Giddings, private client & Chapter 3 Soul Seed

  • "The dreams course with Hannah & Soul Seed Gathering was beautiful, stirring and inspiring. An extensive mix of dreamy academia drawing upon current living dream cultures while also acknowledging each of our own live and very real dreaming abilities which led us to reflections on our lineages, guidance, and magic being gifted through the subtle - articulating and sharing in the group was wildly powerful and really grounded insights into the now rather than remaining as slurred ink on a page. It was a truly expansive, humbling, rich and hopeful experience of reclamation and remembrance. Hannah is a gifted communicator, dreamer and teacher weaving threads through and beyond place and time with prompts that invite creative exploration of what is possible through working with our dreams and what is being asked of us at this time - and I know she has so much more to offer on this subject! A very unique offering for exploration of this kind."

    Flo McAleer, participant in Research with Dreams & private client

  • "I never expected to feel in only 3 days, such big shifts in my mind and body… 3 days learning from brave, kind, loving woman and men who work and live together in a beautiful example of community supported by their love for Sibu, the name they use for a God that lives in every tree and every expression of nature, the sun, the river the flowers, animals, all are brothers and sisters.I’m so grateful for this experience… and already dreaming of returning soon…’

    Andrea Rojas, Stibwrapa Journey

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.

JOIN WAITLIST

'This whole process has been so so alive for me. It became one of the things I was most looking forward to each week - our session even though it was 6am in the morning here, I always left so inspired. I feel like I really let it live, I haven't had much time to integrate but it's all just been feeling so present. Last night I was walking just before the sunset, just doing a coastal walk and once I crossed the busy road I entered into a sensory wonderland and I started connecting with the ocean and the air and my whole body came so alive and I was reflecting on this journey… I can really feel it's been really life changing in a really grounded way. It's just opened up different realms and enriched my life through my senses in such a beautiful way. I'm really really happy I decided to join in the end because I know it took awhile for me - I felt a lot of fear actually. But I'm just really happy I did. I really loved how intimate it was. I'm looking forward to continue sharing and learning in whatever way will be.'

— Romy Morssinkhof

FAQ’s

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • No! We believe we are all innate researchers as human beings.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Yes you will have an opportunity to journey with us into the field and collaborate with one of our partner communities, and territories.

  • 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.