Elizabeth Maria Ortega is a batch of stardust. As an educator and facilitator, she loves all things related to diversity, equity, wellness, equanimity and artistic expression. In her spare time, she’s a printmaker, creative and wanderluster. She is a certified holistic sex educator and absolutely loves to help create a container of safer and alive education for all peoples. Currently teaching at an independent school in Seattle, she has a burgeoning consultation, coaching and workshop life.  While in the Pacific Northwest since 2010, she originally hails from the proud and dusty trails of the Southwest. She holds a Masters in Education from Antioch University. Collaboration and creative projects and world building is tantalizing to her so connect by supporting her art, emailing her, following her on social media and saying hello.

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A note from Nadia

Elizabeth Ortega is a bit of a legend. Long before we had met I’d heard of her amazing facilitation work with FEEST. In a group she is a sparkling, energizing presence and as a friend and community member she is quite unforgettable. As you might have noticed, the Adaptagen Podcast is focussed on unique facilitators; those who really think for themselves, and have developed a method, style and/or practice of their own. Elizabeth is most certainly one of these! Her community intervention is an investigation and deconstruction of “love” as we are taught to know it, in a way that recentres community, friendship and the inner self. After recording this podcast I was walking on air for a couple of days! My world looked different. Her radical insight into human dynamics, particularly into the nature of love, inspired me to face my own life in a very different way. I found myself looking at my little bird feeder with the winter chickadees and house sparrows that show up every day and thinking…this is love. THIS is romance. I’m sure you’ll find this podcast as fascinating as I did. Can’t wait to hear your reactions.