Shalome Lateef is a bead maker, ritual practitioner, and horticulturalist. She grew up in and around christian communities where ritual was practiced on a daily basis. She crafted and guided her first community rituals in her early teens and has continued to create both personal and community rituals that facilitate healing, cohesion, and joy. After working in the publishing industry for many years, she retrained in plant spirit healing and energy work, completing a three year apprenticeship with Bianca Patetl-Flowers. Shalome’s fields of expertise are dreams and dreaming, place-based wellness (forest therapy), ritual - especially rituals that facilitate deep healing and release, and transformational craft work.