HCE Practicum

Join us inside of a fiercely held container for engaging in personal, generational, and collective healing.

Together in this three week intensive, participants will experience an unapologetic centering of indigenous wisdom and restorative ways of being. Our expert practitioners, who have lived and worked in these ways for decades, will engage the breath, body, mind, and spirit through their dynamic healing modalities and conversational storytelling.

Inside this community you’ll develop presence and facilitation skills to ground your own communities and foster wellbeing within them. You’ll also find a shared sense of personal and ancestral values and deep desire to transform the collective.

This is the restorative turn in practice.

Lead Instructor

Dr. Angel Acosta

For the last decade, Angel Acosta has worked to bridge the fields of leadership, social justice and mindfulness. He recently received his doctorate in the Curriculum and Teaching Department at Teachers College, Columbia University. Angel has supported educational leaders and their students by facilitating leadership trainings, creating pathways to higher education, and designing dynamic learning experiences. His dissertation explores healing-centered education as a promising framework for educational leadership development.

Co-Facilitator

Solana Booth

Her Indian names are Solana, IshDàĀNaWäŠe and Łaxłenblu. As a Pacific NW Traditional Medicine Keeper, her vision is to open her own “Re-Cover Me in Wellness Center”. Ms. Booth serves us by her roles as Co-Chair of American Psychedelic Practitioners Association, Executive Director of Transitioning Offenders Program and founder of Advocates Of Sacred. She promotes First Nations and Native American traditional teachings using multiple healing modalities such as: Traditional Canoe Family Skipper, Speaker/Doer of Ancient knowings, Traditional Ceremonies, Traditional artist, hunter & gatherer, Family violence and Recovery Specialist, Generational Brain-spotting Practitioner, Somatic Archeology Practitioner, First Foods’, Plant Medicine and Lactation Educator, Birth and Death work, Storytelling or first narratives and her Positive Interconnectedness model. Miss Booth is enrolled into the Nooksack Nation of the Chief Dan George Family and Mohawk from Bay Quinte where the peacekeeper was born, White Owl House of the Wolf Clan. Her Paternal association is Tsymsyan of the Violet Booth Family, Raven Clan. She is a mother of nine and Grandmother of two baby girls.

Co-Facillitator

Latise Hairston

Dr. Latise Hairston advocates for all human beings (especially for those that are disenfranchised) and influences systems to create practices, policies, and cultures that respect individuality and focus on diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice.

With over 20 years of leadership experience, Latise has counseled and coached hundreds of individuals, leaders, and organizations in the government, non-profit, and corporate sectors. She designs, manages, and facilitates enterprise-wide innovative solutions, including strategic planning, change management, and leadership. Latise has led the development and implementation of diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic plans within a multi-billion-dollar hospitality company.

As the Founder and Chief Impact Officer of HOPE Consulting, Latise specializes in creative problem solving, instructional design, diversity, equity and inclusion, training/facilitation, leadership, and organizational development. She also serves as an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Business, Management, and Leadership at Medaille College.