Meet Omni Kitts Ferrara

Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Omni Kitts Ferrara. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Hi Omni, thank you so much for joining us today. There are so many topics we could discuss, but perhaps one of the most relevant is empathy because it’s at the core of great leadership and so we’d love to hear about how you developed your empathy?

As a child I was exposed to many different perspectives on what the purpose of life could be. I was raised by two hard working middle class artists who created space for me to be curious and understand the world as I determined. My parents gave me choice in growing up and who I wanted to be. Empathy in many ways is impossible, I cannot know how you feel, however, as you express I can relate and connect with what you have shared. Or I can just sit with you and allow you to be who you are. This type of practice is what the world needs most.

Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?

I am an artist and a creator. Every job title and role I have is an expression of my creativity. So yes, I look like a jack of all trades but if you look at all my offerings you will see a common thread – embracing our living and dying.

I am a mother, and a full-spectrum birth doula, I have also worked in labor and delivery as a nurse. Birth is a journey we all have in common. I work to support people in their own individual journey.

I am a professionally trained dancer, a yoga teacher and a personal trainer. I have studied movement as both self love and as an art form. I work with people to help them feel more empowered in their bodies and in their living.

I am also a hospice nurse, a certified end-of-life doula and the director of education at INELDA.org. I create training for individuals and organizations looking to be or have doulas at end-of-life. I sit with people who are dying and who are contemplating mortality. Dying is the last thing we will do with our bodies, take time to consider how you hope to do that.

I help facilitate connection to joy, pain, grief, life, birth, death, creativity and wisdom.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

I think resiliency is important. Ya know when life is hard for a stretch and then it keeps getting harder? It feels relentless. This is where the work of living begins.

1. Stop trying to be the best. When you start from the premise that you are not good enough. Nothing you ever do will be good enough. You won a lottery just being here, how would you like to live this life, this gift you have been given?

2. Embrace paradox. Many truths are true at the same time. Your life is not more valuable than someone else’s. Allow room for others and you will simultaneously allow room for yourself.

3. No one knows. Humans love making up stories, but all of them are stories. You are a bunch of cells holding together for no apparent reason other than the continuity of life, on a floating planet circling a star hurling through space in a universe that is infinite? Take a breath because you can. You are here, now what?

My advice is continue to show up. Do not avoid the hard stuff. Stay in it.

How would you spend the next decade if you somehow knew that it was your last?

Stephen Jenkinson says, “allow the news of your death to transform you” – I say this to myself daily. A decade of life left might be generous, I could die tomorrow. Working in the field of deathcare and sitting alongside those actively dying reminds me daily to live the way I will be proud of when I die. So every single day I am called to live so that if tonight I don’t wake up, I am fulfilled. I have told my children and my husband that I love them endlessly. I will continue to live fully so that if today is the day, well then, it is a good day to die.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://Www.biologicallybased.com
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