Interstellar Peace Building Alliance

A 13-week Ambassador training in communication across difference

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Learn how to communicate with extraterrestrials—

and anyone, or anything else, you don’t completely understand.

PHASE 01
Preparation-

THE QUEST

PHASE 02
Contact-

THE JOURNEY

PHASE 03
Adaptation-

IMPLEMENTATION

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PHASE 04
Adaptation-

EVOLUTION

COURSE DESCRIPTION.

Encountering difference can activate deeply conditioned patterns of fear, protection, projection, control, or withdrawal. When we meet a person, culture, species, technology, or form of consciousness that does not share our familiar language or understanding of reality, these patterns can limit what we are able to perceive and make genuine communication difficult.

In this four-part, 16-session experiential course, participants will explore the embodied capacities needed for first contact and communication across difference. Science-fiction films will be placed in conversation with creation stories, shamanic narratives, anthropological primary texts, somatic psychology, and Ixchel Xōchitlzihuatl’s Empathy Operating System. Together, these materials offer both imaginative and practical technologies for meeting unfamiliar forms of consciousness with curiosity, discernment, humility, intimacy, and care.

Through guided reflection, embodied practice, partner exercises, communication laboratories, and narrative analysis, participants will learn to recognize and regulate their existing operating systems before those systems become fixed interpretations of another being. As the capacity to remain present with uncertainty develops, new possibilities become available for listening, meaning-making, adaptation, and peaceful relationship.

Participants will complete a Personal First-Contact Protocol and graduate as Regional Ambassadors of the Interstellar Peace Building Alliance, prepared to apply these practices within their relationships, communities, regions, and encounters across worlds.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN.

This program focuses on how nervous-system activation, cultural conditioning, language, memory, narrative, and assumptions about intelligence shape our responses to difference. Practices will emphasize sincere presence, self-regulation and co-regulation, interruption of habitual patterns, attunement to unfamiliar signals, perceptual and linguistic relativity, intimacy across difference, multidimensional communication, empathy, narrative consciousness, co-creation, adaptation, beauty, and nonviolence.

Participants will practice distinguishing curiosity from projection, contact from control, empathy from identification, and adaptation from assimilation. The course will support an expanded capacity to communicate when language, morphology, culture, time, memory, or reality itself may not be shared.

The thirteen foundational principles of the Interstellar Peace Building Alliance will help participants bridge the space between unfamiliarity and relationship—preparing them not only for possible extraterrestrial contact, but for the everyday work of communicating peacefully with beings they do not yet fully understand.

Beginner Program Overview

Part I: Preparation — The Quest

Class 1: Preparing the Body for First Contact
Class 2: Interrupting Inherited Patterns and Creating Possibility
Class 3: Developmental Transformation and the Unknown
Class 4: Recognizing and Regulating Your Existing Operating System

Part II: Connection — The Journey

Class 5: Attunement to Signal
Class 6: Patience, Humility, and Surrender
Class 7: Intimacy Across Difference
Class 8: Establishing Communication Without a Shared Language or Reality

Part III: Application and Analysis — Implementation

Class 9: Language, Perception, and the Construction of Reality
Class 10: Multidimensional Relationship
Class 11: Memory and Narrative Consciousness
Class 12: Technology, Consciousness, and Communication

Part IV: Adaptation — Evolution

Class 13: Empathy Without Erasing Difference
Class 14: Mirroring, Co-Creation, and Adaptation
Class 15: Choosing Beauty and Authoring the Future
Class 16: Nonviolence and the Personal First-Contact Protocol

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The Interstellar Peace Building Alliance brings Indigenous stories and woman-centered science fiction into conversation with somatics, mindfulness, art, and relational practice.

Participants will explore how difference, uncertainty, and communication are experienced through the body and in relationship.

Through story, embodied practice, creative work, and reflection, participants will begin imagining a Personal First-Contact Protocol for meeting difference with curiosity, discernment, empathy, and nonviolence.

Frequently Asked Questions.

  • The program starts with an opening prayer which will be recorded and sent out via email on November 11th, 2026. For those who are able to attend this meeting live it will be at 12pm PST.

    The rest of the beginning level meetings will be as follows. Each meeting is from 10am-12pm PST.

    2026

    NOVEMBER: 12th, 19th
    DECEMBER: 3rd, 10th, 17th

    2027
    JANUARY: 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th

    FEBURARY: 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th

  • The program costs $555 for the beginner level. Payment plans are available.

    Those who pay in full by November 1st will receive a 10% discount.

  • The Advanced program will happen between July - September of 2027.

    The advanced group will deepen into somatic skill-building for practical problem-solving and application. Participants will refine their Personal First-Contact Protocol, practice working with real relational and community challenges, and learn to translate embodied awareness into communication and action.

    Participants will receive individual feedback and access to supervision as they develop a place-based practice and prepare to become Regional Ambassadors of the Interstellar Peace Building Alliance.

    This program will be partially asynchronous with individual one-on-one meetings, small group meetings and monthly group check-ins.

    The cost will be $333.

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Ixchel Tonāntzin Xōchitlzihuatl is a an Uto-Aztecan women, daughter of Rosemary, granddaughter of Flora and great granddaughter of Josefina.

She is a Certified Somatica® Sex and Relationship Coach (CSC), artist, educator, and Indigenous somatic practitioner.

She holds a Master of Education from Harvard University and a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University, with additional training in mindfulness, Indigenous psychology through Braided Wisdom, and somatic regulation with Linda Thai.

Ixchel is a Soros Land, Art and Memory Fellow (2023) and former guest faculty of Art at the College of New Jersey.

She is the Reverend and Spiritual Director of a woman-, queer-, and Indigenous-led church in Hawai‘i and has studied indigenous practices of shamanism for more than 15 years.

Her teaching weaves somatics, mindfulness, art, story, Indigenous consciousness, and speculative imagination to develop new practices for communication across difference.

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