Facilitated by Dr. Laura Batson, (mother, artist, poet, author, and naturopathic doctor)

"I am experiencing more and more, in clinical practice, people feeling a loss of hope, of purpose, or feel like they don't belong to this world anymore. 

Anxiety, depression, addiction, and physical illness thrive in such conditions, so does a culture of materialism, extractive capitalism, and abuse of power. All of which destroy the planet, perpetuate chronic disease, and further obscure people from their deeper meaning and purpose. I created (R)evolution medicine to help address these complex and interconnected issues in simple and holistic ways.

For the past 20 years I have been unpacking Spirit-guided teachings, along with teachings from holistic science, naturopathic medicine, traditional and Indigenous knowledges, and those that have come through my own paths of healing. I am understanding more and more what is broken and what needs to be healed at all levels of life. My answer is not the only answer. I believe we are all connected to knowledge and messages important for the world right now. We come into this world carrying knowledge and gifts that already belong here in the web of life. And if we can remember those knowledges and gifts, and weave them together in participation with the more-than-human-world, we might just realize the meaning and purpose of our being in this web of life, and contribute to the kind of healing that Sioui refers to as 'a spiritual healing, the re-circularization that we all need so desperately if we wish to prevent the loss of the Circle - that is, of life, this marvelous gift that we possess as a species belonging to the Circle.'

I want to share with you the particular messages that have been teaching through me and that I'm coming to understand about what is broken and needs healing in ourselves and the world.

It comes to me in symbolic language as: we have flattened our curves and broken the circle.

“our curve” = our unique soul-expression in this world (our unique purpose and gifts that we are born into this world carrying) and our non-linear ways of knowing (our intuitive, creative, embodied and spirit-led ways of knowing). Our Curves have been suppressed, silenced, standardized and reduced to fit the lines and boxes of colonial conformity. We are living up to a flattened potential of ourselves. We are lost to ourselves and hurting. And the whole world suffers from the lack of your true potential and gifts in this world.  

“the circle” = the circular worldview/cosmology found in traditional and Indigenous cultures (a way of seeing and knowing ourselves as interconnected and interdependent beings in deep reciprocal relationship with the web of life, where everything has its place and purpose in the whole and follows the natural and spiritual laws of the Land and Stars). The Circle has been cut and broken by colonial rule, replaced by a linear worldview/cosmology of disconnection, materialism and the laws of people in positions of privilege and power. 

In (R)evolution Medicine, we liberate our curves from linear rule, we re-circularize our worldviews and ways of knowing, we re-member our (I)indigenous knowledges and land-based principles of organization and we bring our gifts of knowledge and medicine into deep reciprocal relationship with one-another and the more-than-human world, again, contributing to a kind of healing that is truly revolutionary." - Dr. Laura Batson

When I First Stepped Off the Line

"Biology of Belief" course with Bruce Lipton

Schumacher college

8th Fire Documentary by Anishinabe Elder, Dave Courchene, Turtle Lodge, Manitoba

"Human societies that think and believe life functions in a linear mode have forgotten that life is a great and sacred circle of relationships...My prime motivation has been to bring about a spiritual healing, the re-circularization that we all need so desperately if we wish to prevent the loss of the Circle - that is, of life, this marvelous gift that we possess as a species belonging to the Circle."

- Georges Sioui, Huron-Wendat First Nation

“Integrating art, science, and spiritual wisdom, Laura Batson explores in a unique way what may be the most important development in twenty-first-century thought: the recognition of the importance of nonlinearity. A beautiful and inspiring book!”

 — Fritjof Capra, author of  The Tao of Physics, and The Web of Life

Many of us find ourselves living lives in straight paths (following the straight and narrow), always reaching for the next goal but seldom remembering who we are. We have forgotten how to turn into ourselves. Our souls are naturally curvaceous. They want to turn into themselves. But we have forgotten the language of Curvature. We have forgotten how to become the potential we were meant to become.