Wednesday, July 6th, 2022 from 12:00-1:30pm PST

Join Pilar Hernandez Wolfe, who is a tenured professor, a licensed family therapist and a licensed clinical professional counselor, in an interview with Taita Santos Jamioy Muchavisoy, who is a Kamentza elder based in Sibundoy who travels throughout Colombia as a consultant on Kamentza traditional healing practices, in a conversation about the potential of plant medicines like yaje, and fungi like psilocybin mushrooms to promote human transformation and deep healing. They will explore how a new awareness of the plant world and its unique and diverse expressions of life might emerge in the context of these experiences, alongside the potential establishing reciprocal relationships with mother earth. Humans may develop a heart-felt awareness of the role they play in the cycles of construction, destruction, accommodation and change embedded in the relationships with the environment and all those who inhabit it. They may develop new or more nuanced relationships with their lands, food systems, and animals, and also become more aware about the human systems that generate pain and destruction for nonhuman life on the planet. Come learn and reflect with us about the meaning of taking sacred plants and fungi not only for personal healing, but also to create reciprocity with mother earth and accountability to other humans and the other beings on the planet.

📷Santos Jamioy Muchavisoy, M.A. is a Kamentza elder or “Taita.” He was elected Kamentza governor four times (1994–2010) and was staff consultant for the state of Putumayo (2016–2018). He holds a master’s degree in human systems from the Universidad Central de Colombia and diplomates in Law and Indigenous Legislation. He was an adjunct professor at the Technological Institute of Putumayo and at Remington University in Medellín, Colombia. He is a member of the council of wise elders supporting the Master’s on Mother Earth at the University of Antioquia in Colombia where he is also adjunct faculty. He is a traditional healer based in Sibundoy and travels throughout Colombia as a consultant on Kamentza traditional healing practices.

📷Pilar Hernández-Wolfe, Ph.D. is an earth keeper, mestiza, who blends indigenous and western ways of healing, relationship and ceremony. She is a descendant of the doctrine of discovery, a descendant of indigenous peoples whose lands were stripped by a papal bull that declared them not human, and not worthy of any rights. This left her ancestors with the “Great Forgetting.” She is the living mix of Indigenous and Southern European peoples. She is committed to constructing with others the “Great Remembering” and to bringing back connection, and reciprocity with all beings. Pilar is a tenured professor, a licensed family therapist and a licensed clinical professional counselor. Her work on decolonization and mental health integrates Indigenous and Western approaches to healing. She was born and raised in Colombia. She is fully bilingual in Spanish and English. Pilar completed the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) MDMA Therapy training.

This talk will be recorded and immediately available for rewatch for all attendees.

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Indigenous Perspectives on Yagé Healing, Reciprocity and Our Connections to Mother Earth