The mission of Terra Incognita Collective is to provide a more integral and interpersonal education to adolescents and teenagers, in an accessible and understandable way.
Our goal is to bring life skills to those preparing for the real world — from realistic financial literacy to maker skills, basic first aid to laundry — and to offer comprehensive trauma education and processing tools.
We understand that trauma is not just about natural disasters and global pandemics, but can play out in both subtle and big everyday occurrences, generational patterns, and myriad blatant and unnoticed ways.
At Terra Incognita, we aim to support the understanding of, and healing from trauma, in not-too-heavy ways. Healing is possible. Prevention is possible. Help is possible. Let the exploration into the self begin!
I grew up in a teensy little town with a population of about 800 people
I had the same classmates from kindergarten through our high school graduation, and it was only upon leaving and seeing the world, meeting a more varied demographic of humans, and giving myself permission to discover a path for and within myself that I began to realize how little I had been taught about what it takes to be an aware me in this world.
Along my meandering path to where we meet now, I began and then dropped out of community college no less than four times, did some traveling (including three months in Australia, where I worked for free room and board through the very cool WWOOF program), bounced around from Michigan to California, slept on some couches, got married, had some cool kids, got divorced, wrote some stuff, worked in a bunch of wildly varied jobs, finished my AA in Literature from Santa Rosa Junior College and then my BS in Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies.
The latter two accomplishments were extremely challenging for me, and the completion of which spanned over two decades. Throughout my adulthood, I have countless times thought I wish I’d known this when I was younger; that repeated wish is the premise behind Terra Incognita.
Young people have the incredible opportunity to explore — both the world at large and within themselves, and that is what brings us here together today.
CHILDREN
TO FINISH COLLEGE
FAILURES & SUCCESSES!
TRAVELING IN AUSTRALIA
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