Friday March 28, 2025, Westward Look Inn, Tucson AZ
Shipibo Plant Dietas – Learning through Internal Relations with Plant Spirits
This presentation will share mythical and practical ecopsychological fieldwork of plant dietas and the liminal space where spiritual connections manifest. The Shipibo sacred plant dieta is an agreement with a plant spirit to develop a spiritual connection. As the dieta progresses, this connection strengthens, transforming into a profound bond, an alliance between the dieter and the plant spirit. Through this sentient friendship of the dieta process, practitioners gain insight, healing, and knowledge, building a relationship with the plant spirit that enhances their path in traditional plant medicine. Participants will have a preliminary understanding of the transcendental overlap of human and plant species in this ancient tradition.
Dawn Johnson Harvey is a PhD student in East-West Ecopsychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She also holds a master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy and provides trauma-informed narrative therapy. Her dissertation explores the decolonization of the self in community groups through ethnoautobiography, a process of reawakening ancestral values and reconnection to the integral earth community.
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