Connection & Cacao
Cacao & Repair
Elizabeta weaves Restorative Practices for conflict resolution with mindful-compassion meditations and the medicine of cacao to support couples or groups in conflict repair and returning to connection. As a vasodilator, cacao increases circulation around the heart, enhancing our capacity for empathy and compassion. By teaching participants how to connect with cacao as a sacred medicine and providing conversational structure that supports listening and speaking from the heart, Elizabeta facilitates reparative conversations that go beyond resolving conflict to deeper connection and understanding among participants. She is experienced in supporting the repair of relational ruptures or hurt, organizational conflict, and power misuses.
In addition to conflict repair, Elizabeta facilitates Courageous Conversations with Cacao for those seeking support exploring power dynamics and systemic oppression with a plant and facilitator ally. Rather than engage in painful cognitive debate with loved ones about ideological differences, Courageus Conversations with Cacao provide a structured and intentional way to hear each other across difference, from the heart. We need to strengthen our capacity for compassion, vulnerability, forgiveness, and empathy in our interpersonal and organizational relationships to participate in collective liberation and cacao offers us her wisdom to do so.
Mayan and Aztec nations have understood Cacao as a sacred medicine for thousands of years, using cacao to support diplomacy between nations and for resolving conflicts within families. She donates 20% of each session to Mayan-led organizations in Sololá, Guatemala, to participate in right relationship and reparations with the protectors of this plant ally.
Email elizabetamgonzalez@gmail.com for a free consult and to learn more. Sessions are 90 minutes and can be virtual or in person. Sessions typically cost $150 for two-people or $300 for groups.
Cacao & Connection
Elizabeta offers Connection Circles with Cacao for those looking for support deepening relationships and vulnerability. In this world, we sometimes learn to defend our sensitive hearts by holding back our fullest expressions of love or longing. Cacao accompanies our hearts allowing us to expand our capacity for intimacy and authentic expression. Connection Circles with cacao can be transformative in learning new ways to share and listen particularly between young people and their parents, romantic partners, or siblings who didn’t have this communication modeled growing up.
Cacao Meditations in Community
Monthly sister-led meditations weave together the sacred medicine of cacao and live music transmitted by plant teachers to open the heart and support participants in greater connection with the earth, the elements, and the wisdom of cacao. Our ancestors used to gather around the fire and sing and feel with each other and our other-than-human kin. Join us to revive this tradition. We can feel more aliveness, more of our sorrow and more of our joy with the accompaniment of cacao and community. Sign up here.
