FOUNDER, DIVINER, CONSCIOUS ENTREPRENEUR

Tylor is a multi-faceted entrepreneur, Diviner, visionary, and performance artist with a deep passion for spiritual lineages, awakening, and the complexity of healing from our individual and collective traumas in this chaotic modern world. 

His journey with Dagara Divination and cultural wisdom began in 2015 as he was exploring spiritual healing modalities during a difficult passage in his life, through his introduction to his teacher and elder, Mark Bockley.

Mark and his wife Kate were both initiated into the Dagara Divination tradition in the 1990’s, within the House of Bakhyé, the family lineage of the late acclaimed Dagara authors Malidoma and Sobonfu Somé.

Malidoma's life's work was to bring the healing wisdom of Africa and the Dagara Culture out into the modern western world, and Mark and Kate were instrumental in the early stages of supporting those efforts.

They now steward a global community of more than 70 Diviners, who are working together and in deep relationship with our Dagara medicine family in a reciprocal relationship to steward the healing tradition and cultural wisdom into the modern world.

Tylor worked closely with Mark and other Diviners for 5 years incorporating the rituals, offerings, and Dagara paradigm into his daily life and experiencing profound positive shifts, healing, and resolution to life situations as a result.

In 2019, the spirits came through in Divination and asked him to carry the medicine in his life and become a Diviner. After two years of preparatory work and rituals to open the way, he was formally initiated in 2021.

He now continues his life long journey and commitment to steward the tradition and offer Divinations to answer spirit’s calling.

FEATURED ARTIST

Traoré is a self-taught artist, born in Dano, Burkina Faso where he resides to this day. His journey as an artist is inspired by his deep passion for Dagara culture and youth education. He is a primary school teacher and his career as an artist began through teaching art to children.

He believes visual art is a collective memory, and aspires to infuse his passion for Dagara and greater West African spiritual wisdom traditions into his artwork, and the collective memory of the world.

His work as a cultural ambassador for the Dagara People lead him to a chance encounter with Mark Bockley in the early 2000’s during Mark’s initial efforts to create a cultural reciprocity program to bring prosperity to the Dagara People in alignment with their cultural traditions, while also supporting and expanding the awareness and practice of Dagara traditions throughout Burkina Faso and the world.

The resulting project grew into the Zangala Foundation, which supports an annual Dagara-inspired Balafon Festival to celebrate and honor the Dagara traditional music, dance, ceremony, rituals, and other performance arts and crafts that are central to the Dagara way of life.

Traoré quickly proved himself as a powerful ally and local liaison for these efforts, and the annual festival has grown exponentially over the past 20 years as a result of his relentless passion to protect and promote Dagara traditional culture in Burkina Faso and beyond.

MUSE, CHANGE ARTIST, FORCE MULTIPLIER

Carmen Leilani De Jesus is an advocate for collective liberation, personal sovereignty and equitable, regenerative futures.

Carmen has dedicated her life work to empowering others and decolonizing mindbody through her training in the Wheel of Consent® framework, Hypnotherapy, Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Guided Imagery. Her insights and approaches to 1:1 coaching and group trainings are also informed by an understanding of trauma and the nervous system, neurodivergence, intersectional identities, privilege and power dynamics and worldviews which include initiation into the Dagara Divination lineage of Earth and Ancestral Connection.