The Fourth Watch
A Community Oracle Clinic
A Temporary Field Hospital for Meaning-Making
The Fourth Watch is a seasonal Community Oracle Clinic that brings together an interdisciplinary crew of compassionate practitioners to offer accessible support during times of transition, uncertainty, healing, reinvention, and meaningful life change.
Our crew includes counselors, educators, artists, therapists, movement practitioners, herbalists, nutritionists, medical professionals, spiritual guides, ceremonialists, and wisdom keepers who offer one-to-one sessions rooted in deep listening, embodied practice, cultural humility, and the belief that no one should have to navigate life’s turbulent waters alone.
Rather than offering one way of seeing the world, The Fourth Watch honors many ways of knowing. Whether someone seeks practical guidance, emotional support, creative exploration, spiritual companionship, health and wellness perspectives, or simply a compassionate witness, our hope is that each person finds the practitioner whose medicine resonates most deeply with their journey.
The Fourth Watch operates as a seasonal pop-up initiative rooted in accessibility, reciprocity, and community care. Through our sliding-scale model and the support of the Harbor Fund, we strive to make meaningful guidance available to people from diverse backgrounds and life experiences.
The Fourth Watch is one expression of The Fourth Guard, where the principles of Sacred Witnessing are put into practice in service of the community.
For Turbulent Waters, We Keep the Lantern Lit.
HARBOR FUND
A Stewardship Fund
The Harbor Fund exists to help keep the lantern lit.
The Harbor Fund is the stewardship heart of The Fourth Watch, helping ensure that financial circumstances are never the sole barrier to receiving care.
Rooted in the principles of reciprocity, accessibility, and community care, the Harbor Fund helps make The Fourth Watch possible by supporting scholarship sessions, reduced-cost offerings, and the ongoing stewardship of this work.
Some people arrive needing support. Others arrive able to offer support. Together, we create a gift economy that allows care to circulate in many directions.
Every contribution—whether financial, practical, or relational—helps sustain a community where meaningful guidance remains accessible to those navigating life’s thresholds.
If this work has touched your life, or if you simply believe that compassionate spaces like these matter, we invite you to help keep the lantern lit for someone else.
Thank you for helping keep the lantern lit.
The Harbor Fund is stewarded through our long-standing Palomitas Fund, which has supported community accessibility initiatives for many years.
Meet Our Crew
“Keeping the Lantern lit”
When you’ve found the practitioner whose work resonates with you, simply click “Contact” to reach them directly.
Each practitioner manages their own scheduling and payment.
Before You Reach Out
Pláticas are not psychotherapy, medical treatment, crisis intervention, or emergency care. Your practitioner will send a Welcome Packet and Participation Agreement prior to your scheduled Plática.
Gitana offers a temporary harbor for meaning-making, reflection, and renewal.
Through deep listening, somatic awareness, creative inquiry, and intuitive guidance, she supports people navigating major life transitions, crossroads, and moments of reinvention.
Gitana Martinez
Quartermaster • Guide • Sacred Witness
Life Transitions & Crossroads ✨ Grief, Loss & Reinvention ✨ Relationship Changes & New Chapters ✨ Medical Trauma Navigation ✨ Somatic Support & Nervous System Regulation ✨ Recovery, Rebuilding & Body Rehab ✨ Archetypal, Karmic & Medical Astrology ✨ Spiritual Inquiry & Meaning-Making
Available:
Tuesday & Thursday
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Lisboa Time)
Micro Sessions – Pláticas
40 minutes
Suggested Donation: $20–$50
Pay What You Can
Deia helps people reconnect with the wisdom of plants, the body, and the natural world.
Through herbal education, holistic guidance, and relationship-based care, Deia supports people with greater awareness, nourishment and connection to the natural world.
Deia Pauline
Clinical Energetic Herbalist & Community Health Educator
Clinical Herbal Consultations ✨ Immune & Nervous System Support ✨ Digestive Health & Nutrition Guide ✨ Women’s Herbal Health & Hormonal Support ✨ Herbal Health & Everyday Care ✨ Deep Listening & Health Navigation
Available:
Tuesday & Thursday
4:00 PM – 7:00 PM (EST/Georgia)
Micro Sessions – Pláticas
40 minutes
Suggested Donation: $20–$50
Pay What You Can
Ilana helps people navigate life’s transitions with greater clarity, trust, and purpose.
Every meaningful transition asks something of us. Through deep listening, intuitive guidance, and creative inquiry, Ilana supports people at crossroads — helping them reconnect with their inner knowing and discover what is ready to emerge.
Ilana M.E. Maxwell
Creative Mentor • Transformational Midwife • Intuitive Guide
Ritual & Intuitive Guidance ✨ Crossroads & Reinvention ✨ Women’s Wisdom & Empowerment ✨ Rites of Passage & Life Transitions ✨ Creative Visioning & Development ✨ Clarity & Perspective Facilitation ✨ Personal & Professional Coaching ✨ Plant Magic, Aromatherapy & Life Transitions ✨ Deep Listening & Reflective Inquiry
Available:
Tuesday & Thursday
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Hawai’i Time)
Micro Sessions – Pláticas
40 minutes
Suggested Donation: $20–$50
Pay What You Can
Kim is an Evolutionary Arts Facilitator, community steward, and ecological educator devoted to helping people remember that healing begins in relationship—with ourselves, one another, and the living world.
Whether someone arrives seeking clarity, community, or a renewed sense of purpose, Kim creates spaces where people can slow down, reconnect with the larger web of life, and remember that every act of care ripples outward. Her work invites people beyond isolation and into meaningful relationship—with themselves, one another, and the living world.
Kim Mendoza
Evolutionary Arts Facilitator • Relational Ecology Mentor • Community Steward Guide
Relational Ecology & Systems Thinking ✨ Ecological Stewardship & Regenerative Living ✨ Community Building & Collective Care ✨ Eco-Anxiety & Meaning-Making Support
✨ Food as Medicine & Cultural Ecology ✨ Creative Facilitation & Artist Development ✨ Collaborative Visioning & Project Design ✨ Leadership Mentorship & Community Stewardship ✨ Radical Care & Living Systems Inquiry
Available:
Monday & Friday
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Panama Time)
Micro Sessions – Pláticas
Suggested Donation: $20–$50
Pay What You Can
Luisa supports individuals, groups, and communities through creativity, movement, and embodied listening. She creates spaces where imagination, connection, and collective intelligence can emerge.
Luisa helps people slow down, listen deeply, and discover new ways of relating to themselves, others, and the world around them.
Luisa Spina
Creativity Facilitator • Social Sculpture Practitioner • Embodied Movement Guide
Creativity Facilitation ✨ Movement & Embodiment Practice ✨ Social Sculpture & Group Process ✨ Relational & Systems Awareness ✨ Ritual & Symbolic Practice ✨ Embodied Listening ✨ Nature Connection & Inspired Inquiry ✨ Creative Process Support
Available:
Monday & Wednesday
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM (Rome Time)
Micro Sessions – Pláticas
40 minutes
Suggested Donation: $20–$50
Pay What You Can
Jen supports people in reconnecting with their bodies, voices, and inner wisdom through movement, sound, ritual, and embodied practice.
Through sound, movement, and sacred inquiry, she guides people toward deeper relationship with themselves, their communities, and the living world around them.
Jen Jivani
Devotional Vocalist • Women’s Rite of Passage Guide • Embodiment Mentor
Sound & Vocal Therapy ✨ Divination Guidance ✨ Meditation & Breathwork ✨ Nervous System Regulation ✨ Yoga & Pilates: Embodied Movement Mentoring ✨ Wellness & Holistic Lifestyle Coaching
✨ Women’s Empowerment Counseling: Rites of Passage & Divine Feminine Awakening
Available:
Tuesday
11:00 AM – 2:00 PM (PST/California)
Micro Sessions – Pláticas
40 minutes Suggested Donation: $20–$50
Pay What You Can
Gloria supports women navigating relationships, identity, life transitions, and the quiet weight of cultural expectations with warmth, wisdom, and deep clinical experience.
Her work integrates culturally affirming mental health care, relational healing, and practical tools that help clients reconnect with themselves and cultivate healthier, more authentic relationships.
Gloria Osborne-Sheeler, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker • Imago Relationship Therapist • Culturally Affirming Mental Health Practitioner
✨ Imago Relationship Therapy ✨ Culturally Affirming Mental Health Care ✨ Anxiety & Depression Support
✨ Healthy Boundaries & Relationship Skills ✨ Identity, Belonging & Life Transitions ✨ Women’s Wellness & Empowerment ✨ Intergenerational & Ancestral Healing ✨ Self-Confidence & Self-Worth
Available:
Monday & Wednesday
9:00AM–11:00AM (PST/California Time)
Micro Sessions – Pláticas
40 minutes Suggested Donation: $20–$50
Pay What You Can
OUR LANGUAGE
Every community has words that carry more than their literal meaning.
At The Fourth Watch, we call our one-on-one conversations Pláticas.
A Plática is a heart-centered conversation. Rooted in many Latin American traditions of thoughtful dialogue, a Plática is often shared over a warm cup of café, chocolate, or té, where stories are welcomed, questions are explored, and wisdom emerges through genuine relationship.
Unlike many clinical environments, a Plática welcomes lived experience and the art of storytelling as medicine. It honors the understanding that healing often unfolds through informal conversation, memory, metaphor, laughter, silence, and the simple recognition that none of us walks this road alone.
Each practitioner brings their own unique gifts while sharing a common commitment to compassion, thoughtful dialogue, and respectful accompaniment. Some are licensed clinicians. Others are artists, educators, healers, or longtime community guides. During a plática, they meet you first and foremost as another human being.
Whether you’re seeking perspective, encouragement, a witness, or simply a place to rest for a while, we invite you to pull up a chair.
The kettle is on.
