Palestine: From an American Who Lived There + A Call to Action
Saturday, January 11, 2025. Redding, California. Email for details.
Recent Speaking Topics
My Experience in Palestine
The experience of duality within our emotional technology, how that relates with our bodies, and how to allow more space for that duality.
Self-Validation
Validation Workshop
Potential Speaking Topics
From the micro of self-connection to the macro of social change
Somewhere between burn it all down and build it all up: How you fully you is a revolutionary ingredient for social change
Self-habitation: how to set up home within yourself
The mechanisms of cognitive dissonance, denial, and invalidation; and how they interplay with safety and power
Are you a
VISIONARY
ready for more?
More viv in your relationships? More clarity at home?
More understanding of how to integrate your work and passion?
These all come from knowing YOURSELF first.
You can't plan a trip well if you don't know what you like to do.
You can't share your heart with others if you don't know that heart yourself.
What is a key to seeing the world thrive?
To making it a better place?
It's you knowing and enjoying you.
But how, you may be asking.
How do I get to know myself? How do I learn to be WITH myself?
My story
I was around seven years old when I remember first telling myself something like,
"You have to stay with yourself, Dawn.
You can't let this stuff around you convince you to be someone different
or play along with things you don't agree with."
I honestly don't know exactly where that conviction came from, but what I do know is it was that conviction that held me afloat through years of immense pain and pressure to self-abandon. It was a thin, but strong string that tethered me through almost a decade of depression and intermittent suicidal ideation as a kid. As an adult, that string was there when I made big decisions that my environment did not understand. It was there, I was there, WITH myself.
It's not that I did it all perfectly or had it all figured out, but I did have that strong string, holding me to me.
Over time, my inner questions found outer equipping. A master's degree in religion. A master's degree in counseling. A master's degree in Middle Eastern cultures and religions. Three years living in Israel and Palestine. Three weeks in Baghdad working with a relief and reconciliation organization, traveling in armored vehicles escorted by armed bodyguards. Having three kids which required me to edit and streamline my own inner systems. Now, working on my PhD in transformative studies.
Through it all, I was asking this burning, magnetic question,
"How do we get self-separate? How do we get so far from ourselves that we dehumanize others? That we foment war? That we foment us vs them and me vs you and me vs me thinking?"
This relentless question led me over and over again back to its antidote:
"How do we develop and keep self-closeness? What does it mean to be self-close?"
Over time, I found words for this concept. I created language and idea structures. I increasingly embodied self-closeness myself.
It wasn't all twinkly lights and pats on the back though. Much of this understanding came through painful letting go, my own trauma healing (👋, hello two-ish years of crying) and being willing to challenge prevailing narratives in ways that were uncomfortable.
It helped me move clutter off the shelves on my interior world. It brought me more serendipitous freedom. More self-clarity, self-cadence, and self-integrity. It brought me more self-habitation. More self-WITHness.
May we be brave.
May we be wise.
May we be revolutionary - for the sake of us all.
Ways to work with Dawn
Possibilities, but not limited to...
Keynote Speaker
Corporate Trainings
Guest Expert (News etc)
Panel Expert
Virtual Guest
Podcast Guest
WITH: 30 days toward more self-connection
COMING SOON!
30 days of pre-recorded audio to listen to at your own pace.
This is for the VISIONARY who wants to
know and delight more in who they are
understand their emotional technology in ways that breathe wisdom, power, and celebration
release wearying patterns of relating with self and create new, life-giving ones
transform the world around them via their most embodied self-expression
feel better 🥰
Your emotional technology is BRILLIANT, and it is on your side. You are on your side.
You might just need a little help walking out that reality.
Before you choose to commit to any of these offerings, I want you to have an embodied sense that this is for you right now. This helps it all bloom better and nourishes the very transformation you're desiring for yourself and others. 🌻
If you feel comfortable to do so,
Allow your nervous system to calm. Take a deep breath.
Remind yourself of your agency and personal power.
If you are feeling a stressful sense of urgency or lack, release that.
You are in charge of your life. You are powerful, beautiful, and wise.
Let your inner knowing guide you. You know the way.
Then, when you feel settled and self-connected, choose the offering that suits your season best.
May we all be freer. May we all flourish.
