D'ete Blackshire is a facilitator and artist with a calling to create healing spaces that offer opportunities for transmuting struggle into seeds of hope. Her method involves radical self and relational exploration through inquiry and action, with a tender eye on collective vulnerabilities.
Guided by a spirit-centered approach, she focuses on the human experience and transformative power of interdependence, emergent leadership, and wisdom lineages. She believes that the artistry of change works in the intersection of these spheres.
D'ete holds degrees from CSUN in religious studies & linguistics. She is a certified Somatic Experience yoga teacher and initiated P'aqo, a wisdom keeper of the Incan Q'ero tribe of the Andes.
She serves as the communication specialist and as a Listener Poet at TGLP.
She wanted to help people feel comfortable and transform the shame around colon issues. "I want to talk about things that matter, the things people don't want to discuss.
When we met, she was coming off a stretch of nine 14-hour shifts. She was tired but in good spirits.
She reflected on how her resilience was born from moments of shared mirth amid life's trying chapters.