Biography

Kimmy K. Johnson, Ph.D., teaches graduate courses and workshops in ancestral consciousness and healing, dreams as indigenous knowledge, and the shamanic traditions of our ancestors at the California Institute of Integral Studies and John F. Kennedy University as well as experiential learning, essay writing, and human development theory in the LEAP Program at St. Mary's College of California. She completed doctoral work in Consciousness Studies/Traditional Knowledge at the California Institute of Indigenous Studies. Her scholarship, writing and teaching explores healing modalities within familial, cultural and earth-based traditions. By examining what we have absorbed from our life experiences, our families and our culture, we are able to question assumptions and make choices that empower us in all aspects of our lives.