Meet Katharine

WRITER • TEACHER • MINISTER • MEDICINE WOMAN • INITIATORY GUIDE

I am a portal to

other dimensions &

deeper remembrance.

I am a woman of many faces, roles, and names.
My work takes many shapes.
I do not fit inside the nice outline provided by the overculture, nor do I desire to.

Because ultimately the nature of my work is bridging and stitching worlds: I straddle the ancient and the future, the known and the unknown, the person you recognize and the one you are becoming.

I am a wayfinder for those who don’t have maps for what’s next.

My sacred work is a form of soulcraft:
consciously nourishing your core beingness.
I am a doorway to the ancient one who inhabits you.

I have studied nature, people, & language
since I was young.

The eldest daughter of two architects who was deeply shy, I spent my formative years absorbing the importance of good design, good books, and playing outside. My favorite thing to do was hang out in the forest and create homes inside of trees. My early training was this: observing the minutiae in my surroundings and reading between the lines of life.‍ ‍

If you are patient and listening, you will soon notice that everything is alive.

And not just alive, but intelligent. Sentient. Deeply, mysteriously brilliant. Consciousness is Divine, existing in everything. Even as a child, this was clear to me.

That wonder, that joy, that primal desire to unlock more life,
is behind all the work I do.

If you have encountered me, it’s more than likely because you are at a crossroads, a turning point, or a threshold: a profound and unexpected juncture that is asking you to do something differently. Perhaps you have no idea what needs to happen, only that something must shift.

This is where I come in.

My ancestors call me The Woman in the Boat Who Meets Others at the Crossroads.

Places of flux are my niche. I thrive in the mystery and have found my way through many upheavals, career pivots, rockbottoms, and reinventions. My experience, travels, and training have been rich cauldrons for my skills and gifts.

I was forged by life to walk others through the shadows, the mystery, the void – and help them find their way home.

My Areas of Expertise

Life Thresholds, Crossroads, & Transitions • Visionary & Initiatory Guidance
Evolution-maxxing • Soul Retrieval • Spiritual Awakening
Shadow Work & Underworld Walks • Ceremonial Facilitation
Rituals & Ancestral Healing
Godtalk

My Hero’s Journey

This quest brought me directly to my teacher and the lineage I would be initiated in within two years.

I had never heard of the Dagara people, but when I came into contact with this lineage in 2019, it struck a chord through my whole being. Somehow, I recognized this primal technology. It spoke through me and to me, drastically accelerating my path and putting me back together – only stronger. Better.

Just as I was getting on my feet again, Covid entered the scene and the world shut down. It was during this time that people started asking me to serve them mushrooms. But I was in the midst of another existential crisis now that my consulting business shut down and I couldn’t pay rent.

I packed up my life in California and drove cross-country with my dad, my dog, and six shrines in a mini-van. I landed in the Washington, D.C. It was here in the heart of the beast where my medicine was needed, and where things started to stitch back together.

It is obvious that DC is one of the places where healing is most needed in this moment on planet Earth, and I feel honored to be rooted here with an incredibly vibrant and diverse community of soul beloveds.

My story has changed shape, & I with it.

For the past 15 years, I’ve worked at the crossroads of transformation and technology, the ancient and the future.

My first career was a User Experience Designer, Innovation Consultant and Tech Educator in Silicon Beach, Los Angeles for most of my 20s. During this time, I designed complex systems and cutting edge products for millions of people while working with some of the most practical and profound technology driving innovation in global industries.

It was after a significant experience with ayahuasca in 2017 that my worldview shattered and my whole life underwent a complete revision. 

I struggled to reconcile the futuristic work I was doing with the Capitalist systems and companies that were destroying the Earth and leaving me drained and depleted at the end of the day. I had always known there was a different path for me – one that utilized the knowledge I had acquired, but that was in alignment with my soul and values.

I couldn’t go back. I was changed forever, and so I left my apartment, my teaching job, and my community in LA behind while I went on a walkabout for 9 months, seeking answers.

Nature. Wonder. Play.
Soulful. Rooted. Integrity.
Evolutionary. Human.

What I Value

I am a systems thinker. A teacher of spiritual technologies. A translator of earth wisdom. 

What this means is that I think in patterns and make meaning through interaction. I need to engage with something in order to understand it. I am fascinated by the energetic laws and layers of reality and how it all ‘works’. Naturally, this obsession has led me to work within the realms of healing and consciousness expansion. 

While many of us navigate life through the intellect, and understand things as concepts, I am built to embody my wisdom. I am usually required by the powers that be to ‘taste my medicine’ first. Only then does it land in my being, and I am able to teach what I have absorbed, metabolized, and put into practice. 

I believe that we all have the capacity to experience deep insight, direct revelations, and ancestral downloads that guide us through life’s wild and weird passages. I am not anyone’s guru, only my own, but I am quite good at helping people connect to their inner teacher.

While I have many skills and tools that I employ in my work, the most simple way to describe what I do:

I partner with you to cultivate the conditions for deep healing, communion, and wholeness with your soul.

My training bridges the practical and the profound.

My shamanic practice and psychedelic ministry is infused with over a decade of combined experience as a ceremonial ritualist and shamanic practitioner.

All of my transformational work is informed by deep training in technology, systems design, shamanic healing, personal energy cultivation, facilitation, psychedelic integration, oracular divination, and expanded states of consciousness.

  • BA in English, University of MN-Twin Cities

    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.

    The Way of the Shaman Training with the Foundation for Shamanic Studies (2018)

    Multiple initiations in my West African lineage by my teacher Mark Bockley and the Elders of Dagaraland.

    Trauma-Informed Plant Medicine with Atira Tan.

    Psychedelic–Assisted Therapies Certification with VITAL.

    Energetics of Psilocybin with Master Herbalist Sam Perry.

    Apprenticeship with medicine woman Connie Magee.

    Bridge Program through the Congregation for Sacred Practices

  • I bow to all the teachers living and departed who have greatly influenced my thinking and work.
    Of note, I wish to acknowledge and honor:

    Awno Ka, Amanda Foulger, Diego Palma, Mark and Kate Bockley, Malidoma Somé, Martine Somé, Narcisse Somé, Nahillé, Denise Rose Battle, Ascentia Fox, Draupadi Gershewitch, and Connie Magee.

    Special shout out to Terence McKenna, Bayo Akomolafe, Daniel Odier, Martin Prechtel, David Braun, and the Elders and Wisdom Keepers of Dagaraland.

  • Some of the companies, clients, and organizations 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.

My Statement on Money

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In devotion to your expansion

I don’t have a magic process or formula. I believe formulas are fragile tools, and fundamentally I teach anti-fragility. True strength is found inside ourselves – in our truth, our connection to our wisdom, our wholeness.

I am not here to hand you the answers – but I will help you find yours.

The answers you seek are in your soul. They are not found, they are remembered. We naturally recover this wisdom once the parts that feel weak are resourced and supported.

In other words: If you have a question, my responsibility is to assist you in becoming the answer.

Your evolution serves everyone.