Join Our Online Community of Empowered Earth Stewards
Connect Deeply with Nature Through the 4 Vital Signs
The Tezhuna live based on the Original Law, or the Law of Se (Harmony), which states that, when Mother Earth is balanced and healthy, the Tezhuna people and all of humanity also are balanced and healthy. To ensure this harmony, the Tezhuna listen deeply to the 4 Vital Signs:
Air
Trees/Animals/Humans
Water
Soil
Join this course to experience a deep dive into the 4 Vital Signs of the Environment– where You, too, will cultivate your ability to listen deeply to Nature and help restore Harmony and Health for the whole planet.
What Makes This Opportunity So Special?
In addition to learning the 4 Vital Signs of the Environment, you will be participating in the first-time ever that our Tezhuna elders are collaborating with a Western scholar to deliver a fully integrated online course experience. Together, we are celebrating educational approaches that span across cultures and time to promote your authentic and sustainable Earth Stewardship journey as an individual and as a powerful member of the collective community.
Join us for this 11-class online course that:
Centers each participant in their own unique journey of personal practice, values, strengths, and goals.
Layers on Tezhuna sacred teachings about the 4 Vital Signs of an Environment, to deepen our ability to listen with Nature to encourage balance and promote planetary healing.
Prioritizes immediate practice of new techniques and sharing of emerging insights to ensure deep listening, customized feedback, and richer coaching. You will have a team of international educators tuning in to your weekly progress to support your most empowered evolution.
Encourages communities of practice. Participants are invited to practice in Nature and with their communities to amplify the power of the healing practices and to promote accountability and fun among participants.
Timing:
The class will meet over Zoom every other Saturday, from 12-2pm ET, from October 18th until March 14th. There will be present in each class a highly trusted interpreter, from Spanish to English. Classes will be recorded for those who cannot attend live. Please see the full schedule of the course below.
This course is built around these 4 Vital Signs in the following flow:
Each vital sign will guide an entire unit as follows:
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An full, 2-hour wisdom-sharing class will be dedicated to the Tezhuna knowledge and practices related to that vital sign
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Participants will be asked to practice their techniques in Nature. Eight days later (on Monday’s), participants have the opportunity to upload to the course site: their key observations, successes, and questions from their opening round of practice. The whole teaching team will review these shares to notice themes and key areas to focus coaching.
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A second, 2-hour class will be dedicated to deepening practices, sharing additional techniques via step-by-step coaching, and answering questions live
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Participants will be asked to continue practicing with the deepened knowledge. Eight days later, participants will have the chance to upload to the course site: their observations, success, and key ideas for the future.
The next unit will use the same approach for the next vital sign.
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Participants will continue to be invited to engage in intentional practice and measurement of success, with guided observations and insights. Over time, each participant will create their own log of progress with the 4 Vital Signs, including links to their own personal priorities and goals for the course.
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Saturday, 10/18
Opening Ceremony & Centering Our Own Journeys and Authentic Goals
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Saturday, 11/1
Vital Sign of the Environment #1
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Tezhuna elders will select the first sign closer to the class date
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Tezhuna elders will guide the class with sacred wisdom-sharing, ancient storytelling, songs, and techniques for practice
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Saturday, 11/22
Deepening Practice on Vital Sign #1
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Tezhuna elders will provide more practical tools and step-by-step guides for this vital sign
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Dr. Myers will coach on course-wide themes emerging around experiential learning and building communities of practice
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Time provided for live Q&A
4
Saturday, 12/6
Vital Sign of the Environment #2
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Tezhuna elders will guide the class with sacred wisdom-sharing, ancient storytelling, songs, and techniques for practice
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Saturday, 12/20
Deepening Practice on Vital Sign #2
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Tezhuna elders will provide more practical tools and step-by-step guides for this vital sign
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Dr. Myers will coach on course-wide themes emerging around experiential learning and building communities of practice
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Time provided for live Q&A
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Saturday, 1/3
Vital Sign of the Environment #3
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Tezhuna elders will guide the class with sacred wisdom-sharing, ancient storytelling, songs, and techniques for practice
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Saturday, 1/31
Vital Sign of the Environment #4
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Tezhuna elders will guide the class with sacred wisdom-sharing, ancient storytelling, songs, and techniques for practice
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Saturday, 2/14
Deepening Practice on Vital Sign #4
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Tezhuna elders will provide more practical tools and step-by-step guides for this vital sign
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Dr. Myers will coach on course-wide themes emerging around experiential learning and building communities of practice
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Time provided for live Q&A
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Saturday, 2/18
Integrating Insights into an Empowered Whole
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Dr. Myers will share analysis of course-wide participant evolution, based on the notes uploaded in previous weeks
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Participants will celebrate their key insights and consider ways to weave them into sustainable and invigorating daily practice moving forward– as individuals and as members of community
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Tezhuna elders will weave in their integration wisdom and offer additional techniques to support empowerment and health in the future
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Saturday, 3/14
Closing Ceremony & Celebration of Successes
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Participants will have the opportunity to share personal triumphs and insights, and be witnessed and celebrated by the online course community
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Tezhuna elders will close the container with sacred songs and blessings for the future
Your Guides
Mamo Rodrigo
As a spiritual leader (Mamo), Maestro (weaver, storyteller, musician, and teacher), and dedicated intercultural bridge, Mamo Rodrigo will bring forth all of his talents to (1) support the clearest sharing of Tezhuna sacred wisdom, and (2) collaborate with other Tezhuna spiritual leaders (Mamos and Sagas) across tribes. Mamo Rodrigo will facilitate the sharing of unbroken knowledge, key theoretical concepts, and practical techniques for daily application in any Nature context.
For each class, ​Mamo Rodrigo will join with a specifically selected group of spiritual leaders to ensure the most aligned and powerful teachings and the best possible harmonizing of experience across participants. In this course, you will meet many Mamos and Sagas, chosen through Mamo Rodrigo’s and other elders’ interpretation of participant reflections and field notes uploaded to the course. Enjoy this unprecedented level of class connection with the Tezhuna elders!
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Finally, it can be important to note that Mamo Rodrigo will read all of the materials uploaded to the course, precisely because these notes are seen by the Tezhuna elders as sacred materials and Vital Signs of Our Course Environment. In effect, participants will witness first-hand how a Mamo himself practices the 4 Vital Signs of an Environment while teaching these very concepts to the class. This is a powerful opportunity to learn from a Maestro modeling best practices.
Meredith Myers, PhD
Dr. Meredith Myers is a Senior Fellow in the Wharton School’s Center for Leadership & Change Management and has served as faculty at the University of Pennsylvania since 2009, working within the Wharton School, the School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2), and the Positive Psychology Center. Meredith has won excellence in teaching awards in the Wharton School and SP2’s Nonprofit Leadership Master’s program, including three years in a row during the global lockdown, when all teaching shifted online.
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At the heart of all of Meredith’s teaching, research, consulting, and coaching is the science of optimal life experience for all beings-- to encourage authentic leadership, empowerment, and collaboration for system-wide change. For this course, Meredith is eager to integrate her deep expertise in: (1) promoting transformation through experiential learning, and (2) uplifting connection and growth through communities of practice.
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Meredith met Tezhuna elders for the first time in 2019, and immediately appreciated them as among the greatest listeners, teachers, and empowerers that she had ever encountered. She has been an active supporter and participant in the Tezhuna community ever since and is deeply honored for this first-time experience of weaving her western professional training with her deep connection to communities of Earth stewardship.
