Sacred Cenote Spaces Nurturing Heart-Centered Collective Transformation

Grounded in the current cultural moment, and spirit of revolution, this autoethnographic narrative entails a lifelong exploration of connecting self and world, and the importance of sacred cenote spaces in learning to live more authentically through my own personal-professional development as a community psychologist. I describe three main sacred cenote spaces that nurtured heart-centered collective transformation, including the Village project, online global community spaces built through The Emergence Network, and reconnection with my own family and ancestral ways of knowing/being with the Institute of Xicanx Psychology. Each of these sacred cenote spaces have supported processes of personal inquiry grounded in a deeper understanding of family, history, and Earth in ways that allow me to honor intuitions and inquiries of my younger self. Transformations in depth of consciousness about the character of our world has significantly influenced the nature of the work I do and has strengthened what I call compost-activism.