Meet Katharine
I am a student and teacher of spiritual technologies.
For the first decade of my career, I was a design technologist who designed digital experiences for millions of people. Most of my work was thinking about how to get people from point A to point B and how to make these steps understandable and accessible to them.
When I started doing spiritual work, I was shocked to realize how similar these two worlds were.
You see, all technology is assistive. From the simple (a fork) to the complex (the internet), technology is essentially a diverse set of methods and tools that help us achieve something. In the case of spiritual technologies, that usually means healing or expanding our consciousness.
As someone who has spent her life learning how to create and facilitate the conditions for deep transformation, I am most interested in the tools and technologies that foster resilience, expand our capacity for change, and empower our collective evolution.
Your evolution
serves everyone.
Nature is the most direct
tool for navigating reality.
I have been studying the patterns and behaviors of nature since I was a child. My greatest joy was spending my days exploring the forest in my backyard and observing the minutiae in my surroundings.
If you are patient, you will soon see that every solution already exists in nature.
The answers are literally everywhere around us. It is not that much of a stretch to recognize that there is an ancient intelligence moving through nature.
Right relationship is learning how to be in harmony with this greater sentience.
When the brilliant human brain partners with the intelligence of nature, better insights, ideas, and innovations are unlocked. A third path organically emerges from this instinctual collaboration. When you practice thinking and acting in terms of this vital interconnection, you gain access to tremendous healing potential that benefits all connected to it.
I am a spiritual technologist because I fundamentally believe that nature is the key we are looking for in the race to the future.
Without nature, we are nothing.
With it, we gain access to everything.
Katharine Hargreaves is a name you would be wise to remember. Her journey is opening forgotten folds in the human mind, helping us remember how to paint new realities into existence.
T. Middlestadt
My Journey.
For the past 15 years, I’ve worked
at the crossroads of
transformation and technology.
As a User Experience Designer, Innovation Consultant and Tech Educator working in Silicon Beach for over a decade, I designed complex systems, cutting edge products, and transformational experiences for millions of people – and was working with some of the most practical and profound technology driving innovation in global industries.
I started my shamanic and spiritual work after a massive rockbottom and rebirth.
I struggled to reconcile the futuristic work I was doing with the Capitalist systems that were destroying the Earth and leaving me drained and depleted at the end of the day. I knew there had to be another way for me to do my work in the world – a mission that invigorated and nourished me as well as the natural world I loved so much.
When I discovered plant medicine deep in the Amazon – something clicked.
It took me another five years to fully commit to my path as a medicine woman. In that time, I found my lineage, met my teacher, and was initiated with the blessing of the Elders in Africa. All during the Covid pandemic. During that time, I also shut down my first corporate business, packed up my life in California, and drove cross-country with my dog and six shrines in a mini-van to be replanted in the heart of the beast – otherwise known as Washington, D.C.
For the past 15 years, I’ve been passionate about creating deeply transformational experiences that empower people to confront challenge, embrace uncertainty, navigate disruption, and become the stewards of radically vibrant futures.
People come to me for support navigating transitions and momentous life thresholds, integrating big awakening and psychedelic experiences, stepping into their power, and defining new paths forward.
People don't come to me for: following the rules, staying in my lane, protecting the status quo, or thinking the same.
My Training.
My training connects
the practical and the profound.
My practice is infused + informed by training in technology, systems design, shamanic healing, and expanded states of consciousness.
My training includes:
User Experience Design Certification through General Assembly, a global leader in technology bootcamps.
Systems Thinking Training with Acumen.
Human-Centered Design with IDEO.org.
Hermetic Apprenticeship with my teacher Awno Ka.
Course in Miracles self-study.
Multiple initiations in my West African lineage by my teacher Mark Bockley with permission from the Elders and Ancestors of Dagaraland.
Trauma-Informed Plant Medicine with Atira Tan.
Psychedelic Training Certification with VITAL.
I bow to all the teachers living and departed who have greatly influenced my thinking and work:
Awno Ka, Mark Bockley, Malidoma Somé, Martine Somé, Ascentia Fox, Diego Palma, Terence McKenna, Bayo Akomolafe, Daniel Odier, Rita Hraiz, David Braun, Ka’i Sam’e, and Draupadi Gershewitch.
My Statement on Money
How I value my work and price my offerings
Notable Clients.
Some of the companies, clients, and
orgs I’ve had the privilege of working with.
Google
World Future Society
Boston Scientific
General Assembly
Santa Monica College
Burning Man
Interfusion Festival
West Hollywood City Government
Dark Horse Innovation
Bosch
Art Center
IDSA
Noodles & Co.
Being held by Kat's energy is invaluable;
allowing for real growth and honest embodiment.
I could not be more grateful for it.
E. Hansen
In devotion
to your expansion.
I don’t have a magic process or formula.
I believe formulas are fragile tools, and I teach anti-fragility.
I am not here to hand you the answers – but I will help you find yours.
The answers you seek are earned. Uncovered. Remembered. The role I play as a facilitator, guide, and teacher is to support you in excavating what’s real and working with that.
In other words:
If you have a question, my responsibility is to assist you in becoming the answer.
