Curiosity Courses
Civil Society From the Gound Up
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Module 1 – Who Am I in This Story?
Module 1 – Who Am I in This Story?
Focus: Identity, harm, and the Divine Spark.
Participants:
Tell pieces of their own story (as they choose).
Name harms they’ve lived through and harms they’ve caused.
Hear Kim’s core story and the insight: “We are making criminals out of people on the worst day of their lives.”
Module 1 – Who Am I in This Story?
Focus: Identity, harm, and the Divine Spark.
Participants:
Tell pieces of their own story (as they choose).
Name harms they’ve lived through and harms they’ve caused.
Hear Kim’s core story and the insight: “We are making criminals out of people on the worst day of their lives.”
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Module 2 – The World That Built Us
Module 2 – The World That Built Us
Focus: History, oppression, and systems.
Participants:
Explore how empire, slavery, colonization, and mass incarceration shaped today’s reality.
Learn that their struggles are personal and systemic—not just “my fault.”
Begin to see how unconscious patterns repeat unless we wake up.
Module 2 – The World That Built Us
Focus: History, oppression, and systems.
Participants:
Explore how empire, slavery, colonization, and mass incarceration shaped today’s reality.
Learn that their struggles are personal and systemic—not just “my fault.”
Begin to see how unconscious patterns repeat unless we wake up.
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Module 3 – One Nation Under God: Promise & Wound
Module 3 – One Nation Under God: Promise & Wound
Focus: America’s ideals and contradictions.
Participants:
Read key lines from the Declaration and Constitution.
Discuss “one nation under God,” equality, and who was left out.
See the U.S. as an unfinished covenant that calls for truth and repair.
Module 3 – One Nation Under God: Promise & Wound
Focus: America’s ideals and contradictions.
Participants:
Read key lines from the Declaration and Constitution.
Discuss “one nation under God,” equality, and who was left out.
See the U.S. as an unfinished covenant that calls for truth and repair.
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Module 4 – Voices of the Oppressed, Including Us
Module 4 – Voices of the Oppressed, Including Us
Focus: Listening, lament, and shared humanity.
Participants:
Hear short testimonies (enslaved people, Native voices, women, modern stories).
Recognize similar cries in their own lives.
Practice safe sharing and sacred listening.
Module 4 – Voices of the Oppressed, Including Us
Focus: Listening, lament, and shared humanity.
Participants:
Hear short testimonies (enslaved people, Native voices, women, modern stories).
Recognize similar cries in their own lives.
Practice safe sharing and sacred listening.
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Module 5 – Restorative Justice: From Punishment to Repair
Module 5 – Restorative Justice: From Punishment to Repair
Focus: RJ basics and heart posture.
Participants:
Learn key RJ questions: Who was harmed? What do they need? Who is responsible?
Contrast punishment vs. repair.
Try simple restorative listening and circle practices.
Module 5 – Restorative Justice: From Punishment to Repair
Focus: RJ basics and heart posture.
Participants:
Learn key RJ questions: Who was harmed? What do they need? Who is responsible?
Contrast punishment vs. repair.
Try simple restorative listening and circle practices.
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Module 6 – Inner Liberation & Character
Module 6 – Inner Liberation & Character
Focus: Individuation, virtue, and accountability.
Participants:
Explore Carl Jung’s idea of individuation—integrating light and shadow.
Identify virtues they want to grow (honesty, courage, responsibility, compassion, self‑control).
Take honest stock of past, present, and future choices.
Module 6 – Inner Liberation & Character
Focus: Individuation, virtue, and accountability.
Participants:
Explore Carl Jung’s idea of individuation—integrating light and shadow.
Identify virtues they want to grow (honesty, courage, responsibility, compassion, self‑control).
Take honest stock of past, present, and future choices.
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Meet Your Doula Guides
Kim “Great White Owl” Murillo
Kim, is a Neo-Shaman, who’s life path placed her to be a champion of restorative justice whose calling was born out of a dark night of the soul during the COVID‑19 pandemic, including two unlawful arrests that opened her eyes to how our system punishes people on the worst day of their lives. A lifelong truth‑teller and healer, she watched her own family fracture, witnessed elder abuse, and collided with a small‑town court system that felt more like a machine of punishment than a house of justice. Standing in a jail cell, she realized, “We are making criminals out of people on the worst day of their lives,” and that moment marked the beginning of her work.
Now based in Alamogordo, New Mexico, after an earlier attempt to launch “Mariam’s Refuge” in the Mimbres Valley, Kim is creating The Academy for the New Humanity to teach what it truly means to be human, accountable, and free in a society shaped by oppression. Drawing on faith, U.S. history, Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Jungian individuation, and restorative justice, she works with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women, and the communities around them, to imagine a 250‑year future where throwing people away becomes unthinkable and restoration becomes our way of life.
Love & Light,
Kim – Great White Owl
Frequently Asked Questions
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Nope! Any DSLR, mirrorless, or even a smartphone works. We focus on skills, not gear. You’ll learn how to squeeze awesome results out of whatever camera you already have.
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Plan for six fun-packed hours split into bite-size lessons. Watch at your pace—binge in a weekend or stretch it over several happy evenings.
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Absolutely! Once you enroll, the videos, cheat sheets, and updates stay yours forever. Jump back in anytime for a quick refresh or new inspiration.
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Yay, totally! We start with the basics, sprinkle in friendly practice tasks, and build confidence step by step. By the final module, you’ll shout “wow” at your own work.