Who We Are
Meet Holly
Holly Woods, PhD is a portal-walker, soul whisperer, shamanic mediatrix and cosmic provocateur disguised as a master coach and guide. Founder of Emergence Institute and Living Portal™, Holly has spent over 40 years and 40 careers chasing, and then becoming, the WildCreator™ she was born to be.
The blessing and curse of her chaotic and challenging childhood and subsequent trauma were in fact the seed crystal, or source code, for who she was to become and what was hers to create in this lifetime. Every detour, heartbreak, and dark night became kindling for a fire that now burns with truth, power, and purpose to help others remember who they truly are, and create from that place.
Holly discovered that each of us carries a Golden Thread—a soul-designed path that unravels our karma, activates our gifts, and dares us to live as the wild, luminous beings we secretly know we are. She’s here to midwife that becoming in you.
Holding a PhD in Human & Organizational Development and a medicine bag full of credentials - Master Integral Coach, Master Energy Healer, Purpose Guide, Plant Medicine Facilitator, and practitioner of Internal Family Systems, Somatic Experiencing, and other deep soul technologies - Holly blends science, mysticism, and practical magic. She’s also trained with Shipibo shamans in the Amazon and third-generation shamans in California.
She’s served on faculty at five universities, but her truest classroom is the liminal edge where soul meets matter, and new worlds are born.
Her bestselling book The Golden Thread: Where to Find Purpose in the Stages of Your Life (2020) distills this sacred path. And this Living Portal™ Initiation is the most potent expression of her work to date, a cosmic call to step into a parallel reality where your fully embodied, purpose-fueled self leads the way.
Through her Involutionary-Evolutionary Flywheel™ and CosmoSync™ frameworks, Holly helps visionaries reclaim radical wholeness, unleash their WildCreator™ life force, and channel earth-rooted, star-sourced creations that change lives and timelines.
Are you ready to join in this parallel reality and become a Living Portal to activate your WildCreator™ and create a better future?
Jon Argaman:
Co-Facilitator
Jon has been: an Ivy League writing professor; a mystic; a prototype thinking facilitator specializing in bringing new projects through the early stages of validation and product-market fit; a student of Holly; a neuro-accessibility consultant; a writing coach who specializes in helping Spirit find words; and a living manifestation of the goddess of peace.
As you might notice, that is a diverse and varied career, but there is a thread that runs through all of those roles and skills. They are all in the service of building a relational, grounded, sacred way of navigating the unknown to help the stirrings of the soul find their way into presence here in the material world.
Having walked the path of becoming a Living Portal, Jon brings a unique perspective as both student and guide. Their life and practice lies in recognizing each person's unique, radically specific sacred center and helping it emerge into the world.
Through deep listening and gentle guidance, Jon helps others discover the native language of their own awareness, translating their quantum experiences into words that resonate with others. Jon guides people to find clarity within complexity, making the ineffable accessible without diminishing its magic.
