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MeSTIZ(E)

Finding belonging as mixed-race folx

Course Launch: October 31, 2025
Live Zoom Gatherings:

Wednesdays

November 5 & 12, 19, 26 @ 7PM - 8:30 PST

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN

REGISTRATION CLOSES: 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 describes the state of being a mixed-race person.

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

  • Actual Cost: $218 - Payment plan of two payments is available

    Pay It Forward Cost: $358 - Allows us to build scholarship funding for PGM folx, who might not be able to afford the regular price of offerings here.

    Please reach out if cost is prohibitive.

  • 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

SACRED CONNECTION

Tending the wound of separation

Course Launch: January 1, 2026
Live Zoom Gatherings:

Wednesdays

January 7, 14, 21, 28, 28

February 4, 11, 18

@ 7PM - 8:30 PST

REGISTRATION OPENS: November 9, 2025

REGISTRATION CLOSES: December 31, 2025

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

    8 live Calls - Wednesdays @ 7pm - 8:30 PM PST

    Sacred Connection Workbook (PDF)

  • 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

  • ~ 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.

  • 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

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.

THE SACRED EROTIC

RECLAIMING THE EROTIC SOUL

IN PERSON WEEKEND RETREAT

COMING TO EUGENE, BEND, PORTLAND, OREGON COAST

WINTER 2026

A RITE OF PASSAGE FOR FEMMES 45+

THE SACRED EROTIC: Reclaiming the Erotic Soul is my response to the lack of guidance around the powerful transition for femme-bodied humans that comes with the sacred pause of our moon cycles.

This transition marks our passageway into the threshold of early elderhood. When properly guided by village Abuelas/Elders/Crones, it can lead us into the power and medicine of our Spirit dance in this world. Here, we would normally take our place as elders in training in our village. Colonization and the patriarchy have long attempted to destroy these ancestral ways and paradigms.

In the absence of this container, sometimes our own soul and guidance can initiate us, if we have been fortunate enough to notice the Spirit crumbs strewn on the path. However, for most of us, the transition can be a lonely and sometimes overwhelming experience for varying reasons - sometimes universal or unique to each of us.

This is a retreat container where we can hold and witness one another in the spirit of marking this rite of passage and the celebration that our culture does not provide. Here, we commune with one another and with the Sacred as we reclaim our erotic power as a transformative, alchemical force, one that cracks the chrysalis of youth and launches us into the world when our individual and collective medicine is most needed.

  • IN-PERSON WEEKEND RETREAT for FEMMES 45+

    Arrive Saturday at 10am

    Depart Monday at 10am

    ~ Invocation and Ritual

    ~ Limpias (Energetic Cleansing)

    ~ Cacao Communion

    ~ Exploring the Archetypal Forces

    ~ The Goddess, the Patriarchy, & Colonization

    ~ Exploring Initiation and Mining the Initiatory experience

    ~ The womb story and the sacred fire

    ~ Dyad and Triad Work

    ~ IFS Parts mapping

    ~ Journal work

    ~ Vaginal Herbal Steam Bath

    ~ Warm oil healing somatic work

    ALL COMPONENTS ARE OPTIONAL

    THE SACRED EROTIC PDF Workbook Included

  • True Cost: TBD

    Early Registration: TBD

    Please contact me if cost is prohibitive.

  • If you are currently in menopause or almost there!

    ~ you are wanting community and support during this powerful transition into the second half of life

    ~ you sense there is deep magic and medicine in your soul and and would like to be witnessed in your exploration of it

    ~ you are wondering what is next when it comes to your innate connection to beauty, sensuality, and sex at later stages of life

    ~ you sense a lack of guidance around this powerful life transition and sense it might be better to not walk it alone

    ~ you are wanting to unpack and heal the impact of the patriarchy, colonization, and capitalism on your femme body and psyche

    ~ you would like to deepen your connection to the erotic archetypal force in your body, psyche, and life

    ~ you sense that being in community and village with other femmes who can understand, witness, and support each other's journey is crucial

    ~ you sense that our united power is essential during these times as systems of oppression break down and the world needs the power of elders NOW

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