Be the Medicine
Liza Hita
Liza is joning us for "Chapter 3 - Humility and Unlearning."
Liza will share her journey with cultivating devoted relationships with humility, patience, and generosity, and how this is intertwined with clinical consciousness and our collective duty to serve. She will explore various processes of unlearning deeply ingrained entitlements that can hinder more profound understandings of plant medicines. Examining and experiencing our collective origin stories can mend generations of extractive practices and redirect and restore medicine sovereignty.
Dr. Liza Hita relationally explores the sociocultural imaginary as a decolonial and liberatory clinician and scholar committed to ecological care. Her Visayan ancestors and the diwatas of their territory led her to accompany people and systems through deeply experienced life transitions, examining layered, multidimensional grief and intuitive resilience. This includes personal, familial, and community loss, as well as ecological grief, cultural bereavement, and collective remembrance. Her island knowledges and those shared with her by other trusting and giving relatives guided her to critical responsiveness and service.
Her work responds to community needs, both locally and globally, to elevate Indigenous voices fostering systemic change, centering the individual healing process as radial threads in an interconnected web that repairs intergenerational trauma. Trained as a psychologist and prevention scientist, her work interweaves the importance of invitation with the intention of spiritual work. Her lifelong familial connection with plants, their ceremonies, and healing capacities is rooted in her relationships with their traditional caretakers.