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Our nervous systems are the information pathways for our beings. Everything we sense, know, and experience is made possible by the intricacies of our nervous systems connecting us to our inner and outer worlds. I am a late-identified autistic & ADHD (AuDHD) Chicanx psychologist who has been on a lifelong search for connecting to my medicina. Since I was a child, I felt called to a spiritual path that my family did not know how to guide me on. As an adult, I started to meet curanderes and elders in the medicina who provided me with pathways for what my heart longed for. However, it wasn’t until I was almost 50 that I was also diagnosed as autistic, and I began to realize how the autistic ways I processed the world overlapped greatly with my expression and connection to my medicina.
There is a great buzz these days about neurodiversity and neurodivergence. When we talk about neurodiversity, we are simply saying that we are all “wired” differently. When we talk about neurodivergence, we are saying that there are those of us whose “unique wiring” makes it challenging to fit into the box of what is called “neurotypical” in today’s society.
As neurodivergent beings, we often experience ourselves on the edges, the margins–dis-abled by a society that is not structured to meet our nervous system’s needs. This however, does not mean that we lack abilities–but that our abilities are commonly erased, marginalized, or hidden by a society that is not attuned to us.
In this workshop, we will dive deeper into an exploration of what it means to claim and listen to the ways that our nervous systems function. What if claiming our radical nervous system differences is a part of claiming our connection to our ancestres and therefore our medicina? Colonization has covered up and contorted so much of our knowledge systems. I suggest that this colonization has extended to our nervous systems–pathologizing nervous systems’ capacities that are not in alignment with a capitalistic civilization.
What if decolonizing ourselves includes decolonizing our nervous systems?
In our journey together, we will cover some basic themes:
Neurotypicality is a construct of empire
Bottom-up processing is an Earth-connected way of knowing
Unmasking is a journey of decolonization
REGISTRATION FEE: $25
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✨ Let’s reclaim what has always been ours. Join the journey. 💛