Certified Listener Poet,
Cohort 3 Summer 2022
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 took on the Executive Director position at a non-profit in 2019, just before the pandemic.
On why she chose colorectal surgery, she explained that the colon is an intimate and essential part of the body that people often ignore due to self-consciousness.
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.
