Diwa Medisina

What we suffer from most is culture failure, amnesia of ancestry and deep family story, sham rites of passage, no instruction on how to live with the world around us or with our dead or with our history” – Stephen Jenkinson |

Where do I belong? 

Where is my place in this world? 

Who are my people?

(To be continued…)

  • Active Hope
  • Pastoral Care, Archdiocese of Cebu
  • Cacao Facilitation with Kaqchikel Mayan elders Tata Izaias and Nana Isabel Mendoza
  • Innerdance Facilitation with Serena Olsen
  • Innerdance Energy School with Serena Olsen
  • Innerdance Facilitation with Pi Villaraza
  • Permaculture Design with Steve Cran
  • Dragon Dreaming Facilitation with John Croft (project design system for consensual participatory strategic planning for community-based projects and organisations )
  • BA Hispanic International Studies, Minor in Political Science, Emphasis in Global Development, University of Puget Sound
  • Pontifical Catholic University of Chile / Diego Portales University – Santiago, Chile

Relevant Studies, Field Adventures, and Associations:

  • Vipassana, as taught by Goenka
  • Indigenous elders, communities, and culture bearers in the Philippines and Abya Yala

(Karibe Ancestral, Taino Studies)

  • Plant Medicine Initiations with Shipibo-Mestizo and Cofan in Peru and Dominican Republic
  • Gone? Facing an Uncertain Future – Ecosomatics with Rachael Alaia
  • Permaculture, Deep Ecology, Nature Connection – Ecodharma Centre for Radical Ecology and Radical Dharma, Pyrenees of Catalunya
  • Inspiratie Inc, social integration and entrepreneurship support for refugees, asylum seekers, and individuals seeking place and community, via creative problem-solving with the arts and nature – Almere, Netherlands
  • COP 23 UN Climate Change Conference with the Global Ecovillage Network – Bonn, Germany
  • The Ecological Self / The Work that Reconnects – La Casa Encendida , Madrid
  • Innerdance Emergence Convergence
  • Organic Farms Volunteer (WWOOF), connecting with Iberian ancestral roots. Asturias, Spain and Northern Portugal
  • Refugee Aid Training – Calais, France
  • Children’s International Summer Villages (global peace education) – Summer Camp Counselor / Philippine Delegation leader – Bursa, Turkey; Organizer – Santiago, Chile
  • Advocates for Northwest Detention Center detainees – Tacoma, WA, United States
  • Nomadic Kitchen – Plant-Based Decolonizing Kitchen – Cross-Cultural Foodways – Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
  • Little Green Warriors, after-school nature-based educational program for preschoolers – Cebu, Philippines
  • KUPS (90.1 FM) Co-founder ‘No más’, radio show for undocumented immigrants.
Diwa Medisina​ 2025