AKAP

AKAP is a consultant, facilitator, and healer who creates learning environments for people to experience deeper connection, insight, and well-being. He is sought after for his powerful presence and capacity to support individuals and groups during times of transition.
Rako has created transformative leadership programs and equity focused initiatives for businesses, universities, retreat centers, NGOs and other learning organizations for the past twenty years. He has trained and advised social entrepreneurs, cultural workers, activists, spiritual teachers, and political leaders within the USA, Central America, UK, and Middle East. Rako has also trained and
worked closely with leadership from Google, Dignity Health, Adobe, Facebook, Skywalker Ranch, Impact Hub, IONS, and Climate Action Network International.

INTEGRATIVE APPROACH AND OFFERINGS

All offerings incorporate some somatic, emotional, and relational awareness practices. These contribute to an integrative approach that deepens presence, rapport, and collective insight. My work also draws from western developmental research, interpersonal neuroscience as well as traditional indigenous knowledge and other wisdom traditions. It also incorporates insights from living systems and regenerative design work, culture studies, and critical theory.

This integrative approach is seamlessly woven throughout the offering and brought into play through simple yet profound frames, metaphors, and exercises that help transform the way participants experience themselves, their worldviews, and behaviors in relation to others, and their environments.

OFFERINGS INCLUDE:

Integrative training, retreats, and mentorship for transformative leadership, team or community-building, change initiatives, as well as diversity, equity, and inclusion work;
Integrative training, retreats, and mentorship for meditation, sacred community, grief/loss, collective healing, ceremonies marking some rite of passage, as well as poc and trans friendly/only work;
Individual sessions for integrative healing work, indigenous ancestral and elemental work, and sacred practice.

Please see my testimonial page or contact me for more information.

Finally, I believe that individual and systemic change requires us to engage, to some significant degree, our challenges and wounds, especially those which persist from generation to generation. Without skillful intervention, these shadow parts and collective traumas adversely - sometimes even perversely - shape our behavioral and institutional patterns, extending this impact to our intimate relationships, families, workplaces, communities, and the Earth as a whole.