Welcome. Whoever you are, you are welcome.
Thank you for visiting. Here you will find out about work I do, current events and how to stay connected. I hope you find what you are looking for and whatever you need to activate your gifts on behalf of this broken and beautiful world.
As fast as the modern industrial growth society, fueled by fear and separation, devours our relatives (people, trees, water, animals, minerals, mountains, languages), personal and collective healing and transformation is occurring as many wake up to the inextricable web of relationships in which we find ourselves and our responsibility to the whole. The movement from separation to communion is the heart of all the work. These times require us to show up in our fullness, know we are worthy and belong in the deepest place in our soul, and bring forth our unique gifts to contribute toward a culture of beauty and justice for all. To do this, we must dismantle the familial and cultural conditioning that has us believe anything otherwise. We are not meant to do this alone. There is support along the way to help you remember who you are and awaken your soul's calling. We live in a society of forgetting, we are holy rememberers. I am honored to be with you on the journey.
Foundational elements of the work:
Mindfulness. Dreams. Nature Intimacy. Bearing Witness. Listening. Ritual. Beauty. Gratitude. Grief. Reciprocity. Rites of passage. Presence. Mutuality. Justice. Wholeness. Interconnectedness. Love. Embodiment. Service.
You might ask...
How do I serve myself, others and the planet with the wholeness of my being? How do I find and offer my gifts on behalf of this wild and precious world? How has my life experience prepared me for what I am here to do?
You may desire...
Feeling of true belonging
Embodied presence
The capacity to bring your whole self to whatever you do
Clarity about your place in the world and your next step
Connection to the wild in yourself and the earth
Access to your deep knowing
Intimacy and authentic contact
Peace and healing
Community
“The most remarkable feature of this historical moment on Earth is not that we are on the way to destroying the world — we've actually been on the way for quite a while. It is that we are beginning to wake up, as from a millennia-long sleep, to a whole new relationship to our world, to ourselves and each other.”
Joanna Macy
About Alexis
Alexis Slutzky (she/her) is a wilderness guide, mentor, community tender, reclamation practitioner and council trainer. For the past twenty years she has been supporting youth and adults, individually and in groups, to restore relationships with the self, each other and the natural world. Her commitment to healing and peacemaking has lead her to—backpack in the wilderness for months at a time, sit long meditation retreats, explore dreams from a variety of perspectives, study and teach yoga, grief work, experiential group processes, world travel and service, indigenous wisdom traditions, study of plants, rites of passage, natural building and permaculture practices, depth psychology, ritual and ceremony, community exploration, anti-racism and anti-oppression frameworks and practices and beekeeping.
Alexis partners with a variety of people, communities and organizations to create spaces of deep listening, authentic communication and transformative community practices. She has worked in and with non-profit organizations, retreat centers, women veterans, assisted living facilities, community mental health clinics, public and private schools and universities, juvenile detention centers, homeless shelters, domestic violence shelters, international peace projects, a variety of wilderness settings and private practice. Alexis is licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist, although does not currently practice psychotherapy. She is blessed to officiate at wedding ceremonies, memorial services, and other important life transitions. Alexis is adjunct faculty at Antioch University, and affiliated with Pacifica Graduate Institute, The Ojai Foundation, Center for Council, and Youth Passageways.
Alexis was born and raised in in Santa Barbara, California, where she currently lives.
Gratitude
I am beyond grateful to the earth, water, wind and sun, the cosmos, animals, plants and trees, and many faces of nature, and specifically to the place I have called home for many years, the chapparal and oak woodlands, for illuminating my essential belonging and showing me how to live in right relationship.
I am also grateful to my human mentors, including Adela Barcia, Virginia 'Gigi' Coyle, Martin Prechtel, Deena Metzger, Joanna Macy, Francis Weller, and my beloved family and friends and the many brave and beautiful people with whom I have had the privilege of working.
Formal Education
Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2004
Thesis: At Home on Earth—Discovering the Self in Nature, 2004
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1992
OTHER TRAINING
School of Lost Borders
The Ojai Foundation and Center for Council
Permaculture Design Certification in International Development
Wilderness First Responder
