Serina Payan Hazelwood {she/her/ella}, MAIS, CSE
Community Gatherer & Educator
Bienvenidos! Welcome to my page! My journey has encompassed a wide array of interdisciplinary encounters, all of which have converged to bring me to this very moment. My educational pursuits have helped me establish correlations of the systems of power and generational trauma and oppression. It comes down to Land.
"Violence to the land, is violence to our bodies"
Liberation Through Indigenous Knoweldges
I am both a student and educator dedicated to the path toward liberation. My learning is rooted in the cosmologies of the land. Because violence to the land, is violence to our bodies. The theories I gather include decolonial and reflexivity, and I operationalize Indigenous Knowledges (Nahui Ollin) through multiple methods such as storytelling, ritual, plant work, and movement.
Similar to Laura Harjo (2019), I dream in Indigenous futurities, as my ancestors have always done in an effort to create an Indigenous replacement for the metaphorical table of power situated in the ivory tower.
The spaces I facilitate are in-personal and virtual. I invite collaborative, circular, self-determined learning spaces within the community and ask, "what did the ancestors hope for you?".
To view my extensive experiencing educating in-person and virtually, please click her CV below.
Educational Offerings
Systems of Colonialism
Educating ourselves in the history of colonialism and the systems created by it help us to decolonize minds, bodies, and spirits through which we can re-humanize ourselves and others who have experienced oppression and marginalization by the educational school system (Acosta, 2007).
Because violence to the land, is violence to our bodies.
Popular topics include:
- History of colonialism
- Power structures
- Identity and proximity to power
- Oppression
- Land and bodies
- Nation-building
- The educational school system
- White supremacy
- History of whiteness
Liberation
Liberation is complex.
Decolonzing is necessary for liberation. Decolonization is not an event; it is a continuous, creative, violent process that replaces colonial systems, norms, ideas, and practices (Wolfe, 2006; Liboiron, 2022; Fanon, 1961; McClaren, 2003; Grande, 2004). Through my own practice, I have experienced the pain and joys of liberating praxis Which is why I am committed to create spaces of community to process the the pains and joys of liberatory praxis.
Popular topics include:
- Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being
- Reclamation, ritual, renewal
- Land and our bodies
- Sustainable power structures
- Interdisciplinary learning
Sexuality education
Rooted in the cosmologies of the Land I invite learners to reflect and re-imagine their beliefs, values, and attitudes that promote joy and liberation. I am offer continuing education hours for sexuality professionals (educators, counselors, therapists) seeking mentorship and/or accreditation through AASECT.
Popular topics include:
- Our Bodies, and the Land
- Culture
- Gender spectrum
- Sacredness
- Pleasure
- Aging (40+, menopause)
- Intimacy
- Becoming a sexuality educator
- Sexual Attitude Reassessment
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